I use a real scientific approach to bullet effectiveness ... if when I shoot, the animal either drops in its tracks or goes no more than 30 yards before expiring- the bullet did fine. (If I cleanly miss, that bullet also did fine. ) In the case of the bullet I pictured, the buck dropped straight down.

I very rarely recover bullets and never make any real attempt to do so. That one just happened to be handy.

Those Gold Dots look WICKED good! Do you have any pics of XTPs recovered from similar testing? Was just wondering how they would compare to the Speers.