Hi mauser06,

Sounds like pretty good performance to me! Two shots, two dead dear. And about the terminal performance I'd expect of a "mid weight" .30 caliber bullet out of the .30-06. All hunting bullets have to "split the difference" so to speak between adequate penetration and rapid expansion. And the two oppose each other when a bullet strikes an animal. The quicker the bullet expands and dumps energy in the target...the less it will penetrate. And conversely, the better it penetrates and insures it can reach the vital organs from bad angles, the slower it will expand. Fortunately for Americans the most popular "big game" are deer. And deer really are NOT very big. So nearly any "suitable bullet weight" in any reasonable caliber will open quickly and still penetrate enough for deer. When you get to animals the size of Elk, and bigger, you find you need to be more careful when selecting bullets....if you want to accomplish both!

All in all, I'd say those bullets worked pretty well!