*******THIS IS AN OPINION********
55 years ago, during my "official" hunter safety course, they had a diagram of a deer with a sort of ovalish circle drawn on it's side, to indicate where it's vitals were located.
That was where you were supposed to shoot it for a quick, clean and meat saving kill. Even today, animal targets, both paper and 3d styrofoam, have a similar shot location.
All my life, that is the shot I have practiced for, waited for and ultimately taken.....period.
I have been a Disabled Vet since 1970 and chasing wounded chit, any distance, is not an option.
I have killed a bunch of deer, elk, pronghorn, pigs, 1 moose and 1 caribou.....and an Angus bull. With the exception of a deer and an elk, which I shot in the forhead, inside of 100 yards, I have passed on any other shot that wasn't broadside.
I have never recovered a bullet to see how it "performed"....except for a .243 in a pig, which did not pass thru.
A double lung and heart shot will NEVER fail to kill anything quickly......and most any modern bullet will always exit, never to be seen again.
I cannot believe some of the shot up, ruined and disgusting animals that show up at the local meat processor. Not to mention, the rotting animals we find in the field, from ALL forms of hunting.
I hear some Nimrod, every year, say; "I like this rifle, if I hit something anywhere, it's going down." Really?
The point to all of this, "It ain't the bullet that performed badly".
These bullet manufacturers all have YEARS of experience and millions of dollars invested in R&D, quality control and marketing.
No question, under, not so perfect conditions, some of them "perform" better than others. The trick is, not to exceed their designed limits and expect them to overcome bad shot placement.
The "percieved fault" lies elsewhere.
Fire away, I can take it.
*******IT WAS JUST AN OPINION******
"If God did not intend for man to hunt animals, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot"