RE: surprising range report
Like UncleNorby I feel it's always important to know what is downrange of you. Especially since there is no way I can think of that you can pick a bullet that would both guarantee a non-pass-thru and still reliably take deer if you happen to hit a shoulder blade or something.
If this is your concern, I'd actually suggest a different tact. Get away from the jacket bullets, go all-lead. A great choice would be one of the Precision Rifle Keith Nose bullets. Then reduce your powder charge to about 80-85 grains. The all-lead design deforms easier even at reduced charges, reducing your chance of ricochet or leaving a "flyable" bullet upon pass-thru. The reduction in velocity will also keep bullet travel distance down. And you won't be sacrificing your killing ability either.
I have shot these bullets (and several other designs) at 80-85 grains and killed quite a few deer that way. FYI I have yet to find a ML bullet that reliably fails to exit a deer -- they are soft creatures. And I have tried pretty much all that were around prior to 2-3 years ago.
Shoot a big, soft, slow bullet and punch them in the shoulders. That's about the best you can do if you want to limit chances of bullet travel IMHO.
FYI in other guns I've seen bullet designs that do not exit and this is why the route you are taking causes me some pause. One is centerfire bullets driven over their design limits -- fragmentation and crippled deer. The other is Barnes Expander shotgun slugs. Me and a couple guys used them for 2 years, about half the deer they did not exit. But we had two cases where they opened too soon and did not reach the vitals, leading to wounded deer we had to chase down. NOT good.