>>64353324
>And works just fine with good shot placement
This is true for literally every cartridge though. When I was 16 I whiffed and gut-shot a whitetail with a soft-point 7.62x54r. We followed blood for half a mile then had to shoot her again]

>>64356383
Yeah I hit picrel in the shoulder with a .223 53gr vmax and she dropped straight down. It's plenty powerful for whitetail. Still, I wouldn't use it on an elk, but I'm sure somebody out there has done it successfully

>>64166575
This has a whole lot more to do with the fact that it was a VMax than whatever caliber it was. Picrel was a 5.56 53gr VMax. Fucker dropped straight down, no exit wound