I will reply only because I was tagged in.
I haven't used the 87grvmax but I would not recommend it as a deer bullet, no doubt it would be possible to kill a deer with one but the vmax is specifically designed to not penetrate much and dump its energy in a few inches for emphatic kills on varmint size animals.
The 95gr Targex on the other hand works very well on even large deer, it is a bit soft at closer ranges but not excessively so and performs well at longish ranges.
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