I agree with driftrider - great post! You can't ask for better results than whatyou experienced. Sounds like this bullet may offer good to very good performance.

I also shoot a 30-06 for deer. The reason you did not have that much damage to the meat is because the bullet did not expandviolently in the outer muscles, and it held together. Remember that arrows kill by bleeding and hi-power firearms kill by shock if it is a good shot with a good bullet. It appears the violent shock wave did notoccur until it was in the vitals - this is exactly what you want to happen. The best bullets will have two shock waves. The first is a small shock wave when the bullet first hits the animal, and the secondstarts after the bullet has expanded if it is not a hard cast or FMJ.Cast bulletsdesigned for biggame do not expand much (if it all), but notice how they have a flat nose/tip.The second shock wave onhard cast bulletsoccurs because of the amount of body fluids being pushed by the flat nosed bullet and the deep penetration. Bullet performance is a science. This is why bullet and caliber selectionare so critical to what animalyou are hunting(don't use a deer load on a moose and vice versa). Have youever watched slow motionvideo of a bullet going through ballistic gelatin? If not, do a search on the web and watch what happens.