picture of recovered 6mm bullet

[mag41vance]

  The bullet entered the left side breaking a rib, exiting the right side breaking a rib and lodging under the skin.

[josebd]

what was your load for this bullet?

[mag41vance]

what was your load for this bullet?

 The load was for a  6mm Remington Ruger M77
 Winchester case,  Hornady95gr SST bullet seated at the cannelure,  43gr IMR-4350, with a Federal GM210M primer.
 I haven't chronographed it.

 Shoots .755" @ 100 yards

[Patriot_1776]

I must say, pretty good performance.  That sure makes a good confirmation that the 243s are perfectly capable at what they are tasked to do nowadays.  On the other hand, is losing 52gr. of lead on the way a little too much?  It just seems to me, any less than 60% weight retention is on the far side of the "Reliabe" scale when considering taking deer or larger game.  With that being the way it is, asking in earnest, what would happen if one had to shoot it through the shoulder plate?  Would it still hold up enough to do it's job?  I would prefer using something like a Partition, if I had to choose a lead bullet.  Patriot

[Grubbs]

you can probably associate bullet performance in this case with the fact that at short range with the bullet probably going over 300 fps caused less retained bullet weight.  My buddy did the exact same thing a month ago with his 7mm STW shooting Federal Premium ammo.  Deer field dressed 172 lbs, shot at app 100 yds.  The bullet basically disentegrated and never exited the deer either leaving no blood trail.  The deer was shot through the heart and ran about 75 yds.  Good thing he saw him go down.  Inside deer was a mess.  In your case I don't think you could ask for much better performance under the circumstances you described.