Wow, it looks like a grenade went off in that pig. As far as continuing to use the deep curls for long range shots, I was perfectly fine with that until this happened, let me explain. It was my son who shot the elk at 50 yards with the deep curl. The elk came up the hill under were my son was standing and froze, Andre dropped to a knee and nailed him in the chest. (see picture) It was a devastating hit exiting out the opposite side next to the spine leaving a golf ball sized wound. Hearing the shot I rushed to where my son shot and he was busy reloading his gun. He said he was sure he hit it but not positive so I give him my gun with the same load and tell him to go after it while I finish loading his gun. He fires again and I run down the hill and he tells me he thinks he missed the second shot so I give him his loaded gun back and he runs down the hill and shots a third time, this time putting the elk down for good. The third shot is also a devastating hit breaking through the shoulder and taking out the lungs but does not exit. As we are skinning out the animal we find the second shot, as you can see by the pictures, it has fully mushroomed as it should. Now here is the mystery, the mushroomed bullet was planted between the hide and the rib cage at the point of entry, not the opposite side as you would normally find it. It barely made it through the hide fully mushroomed. The only thing I can figure is it must have gone through a small tree or tree branch first. Anyways, that concerns me a bit. By the way, good shooting Ron!