I guess I don't understand what a less than perfect shot is!!! I killed a elk or two mostly with the old winchester silvertip, only have 5 left!!
we hunt the wide open sagebrush of Central Washington, where U need to be prepared to shoot when U see the animals cause normally they a long way off and gettin ready to move if they ain't already moving, they're going straight away, quartering away, broadside, comin straight at ya or quartering to wards ya I have never had one of those cheap O skimpy bullets fail me yet! whether it be a Remington, winchester or what ever else I bought offn the shelf!!! The only bullet I did have a catastrophic failure with was a nosler partition on a mule deer at about 100yds, was pickin chunks of metal out of that deer from the neck to the butt!!!! Boys ya been sold a bill of goods ....ya don't need fancy bullets fer deer and elk.....they don't kill'm any deader than a cheap bullet as U seem they think they are!! them cheap ones have killed more animals that the costy ones!!!! just sayin!!!!!!