Interesting to hear the personal preferences of different hunters. As for me, well, I like an exit wound and if a bullet fails to give me one on a classic double lung shot just one time, then I quit using it.

I've been hunting close to 35 years,and have killed quite a few deer. I've only had two deer in all that time fall where they stood. One was shot with a Nosler Partition and the other with a Barnes Triple shock. I once shot a whitetail right in the boiler room with a 180 gr. Swift Scirocco out of my .300 Weatherby at a distance of no more than 15 yards. That bullet did not exit, so all that energy, some 3600 ftlbs or so, must have been expended inside the animal. You would think the deer would have turned 4 flips after absorbing all that energy, but if you've hunted a while like I have you know it doesn't work like that. He ran about 60 yards before falling over deadand that's farther than any deer has managed to run in all my hunting days except for one that made it about 150 yards after being shot in the gut.

So again, give me an exit wound and a blood trail and I'm happy.