Copper bullet performance

[jbowlin]

I recently shot an elk with a 180 grain barnes ttsx. The bullet obviously did enough damage to kill the animal, but i was really surprised it didn’t pass through. I ended up leaving him overnight because the blood trail was weak. Otherwise i would have dug around to see what exactly happened. What have others experiences been? I’m pretty new to rifle hunting, but have heard nothing but good things about the ttsx bullets. the bullet did not hit the shoulder blade or the leg bones on either side. this was a 340 yard shot with a .300 win mag.

I shot a mule deer buck with a 250gr Barnes from my 50cal muzzle loader last week. I hit a little further back than I had intended but was still a double lung, and broke a rib on each side with the pass through. Shot was 202 yards. No blood on fresh snow but I was able to watch him walk 20yds, bed down and expire. He had a large hematoma and extensive bleeding in the pleural cavity on field dressing;