"Scott Thanks. So your buddy shot the deer behind the front shoulders? The reason I ask is your statement of meat damage...I really don't consider lost intercostal rib meat a big deal."

Yes it was a perfect behind the shouldershot andthe internals were liquid around the wound path. I am sure a shoulder shot thru bone would mean massive damage with any bullet as the 4,000 lbs ke has to go somewhere.

My buddy was at a hunting ranch when he shot the 150 class whitetail, but last year heshot another smaller buck in pretty much the same location with a 150 Grain Swift Scirroco and the bullet "blew up" with massive damage and no exit. He was big Scirroco fan until that bullet failed, and now when he uses the 300 UM he stays away from lighter lead core bullets all together.