All I'm trying to say is that a 'proper' jacketed bullet, impacting the game at a velocity that is proper for its design, will kill deer more quickly, including if they are adrenalin pumped. I would think that with all the horror stories about deer going hundreds of yards -- and I've seen it with 12 ga' forster slugs on a deer shot full of holes -- that jacketed bullets would get the nod for such hunting. I saw one deer darn near shot to pieces, a fair-sized buck here in Ohio, that went a LONG ways onto my family's farm, and I could have tagged it......but didn't want to get into a shoot-out over the whole thing. They shot that deer on their side of the road, and they shot him across to our side of the road (illegal, of course shooting across the road!) They shot him up the hams/butt, guts, and everywhere else except the central nervous system. Somewhere else a hard-cast .45 cal' slug might get one of you the same thing. Like Mac' said, they can run on adrenaline -- and that's the whole point. But I've not seen one run 100 yds' -- yet -- that was properly hit with a decent jacketed bullet impacting at reasonable velocity......even when Very excited.
I think that maybe, just maybe, Mac is giving a hint at how the jacketed (Nosler) is the best route. Just don't shoot it at low velocity, making the mistake that Ross Seyfried did in the article I posted about. And don't shoot the heaviest one they make, either.
No offense, group; just my experience and my understanding.
SS'