RE: Nosler Partition HG performance
The larger bucks are indeed tough this time of year. He was a healthy critter, lots of fat in the body cavity. When I got to him he was laying exit wound down and there was considerable blood and lung tissue on the up side hide. Looked like blood and tissue geyser-ed out of the entry wound after he went down. I don't have a scale, but he had to weigh over 200 lbs. The rump roasts weighed 3.5 lbs. a piece.
I've dropped deer in their tracks with spine shots, but never with a broadside shot. I did pop a broadside doe with a .490 round ball at about 60 yards once and she just stood there until she fell over. That shot was a double lunger with complete pass through.