re: My bullet saved me from the worst shot I've made on a deer in 30 years yesterda

I'm with team heavy, solid, and slow. In my experience you get so much more consistency and such better terminal behavior. You don't get the tremendous shock and grenade effect that you do with a hauling arse hollow point, but you get a .30 entrance and a ~.65 exit every single time no matter where it goes. I see much more variation in performance from high velocity light bullet calibers (hence my unrelenting hate for the .243). Sometimes you get a huge exit with deer pieces blown 20 feet up in the tree and sometimes you get about 3" of penetration and a deer that runs 200 yards without a drop of blood.