Whats best a bullet that passes through or one that reaches the backside of the hide ???

Originally Posted by PistonBroke

here is the two Barnes tsx 140gr out of my .270 wsm, the one on the left is from the bull moose pictured on my avatar, it was shot at 70 yards and i found it on the far side hide, passed through both lungs, and the bullet on the right is the same load and bullet shot at a 5/8 steel plate at 100 yrds, kinda a neat comparison i think. i cant find my bullet from my 150 yard whitetail from last year, sorry but it looks very close to the moose bullet.

Weird, I would have expexcted far more expansion out of that TSX at 70 yards. High velocity hits usually rip them wide open. That looks a lot more like a lower velocity/longer range impact....guess you never know what will happen sometimes. What's the expanded diameter? It looks far less than 2x.