Hunting bullet performance - prefer through or a grenade inside?

[35WhelenAI]

195 yds. I’ve killed a bunch of deer and a few antelope with that bullet and get an exit about half the time on deer. It’s super accurate out of my rifle.

For what it's worth, I get exits on anything but hard quartering shots out to 355 yards with the TTSX from the Whelen AI (.358 200 TTSX) on elk and more than adequate destruction of the vitals to cause certain death. 270 Win and 30-06 shooting a 110 TTSX and 130 TTSX respectively exit on deer sized animals out to 400 yds. Never shot at an animal beyond 400 yds, so no experience past that.

 

[TradLife406]

I switched to Bergers this year in my 6.5 PRC and Creed. They worked amazing. Before I was using the ELDX and it worked. But the 140 and 156 elite hunters seemed to work better. Shooting whitetails from 2-750 yards they'd go in as advertised then blow a huge out on the way out.
Shot eight deer. Seven with the PRC and one with the Creed.

I've played with most of the other popular bullets and they work. But that full energy dump seems to work better. I really like the Accubonds in some cals. But in like my 270 Wby it seemed to just slip through and I had one mulie doe run several hundred yards with a hole in both lungs. But the same bullet in the 243 or 308 worked great. So there maybe be something to a bullet working better in certain cals than others.