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Yes. There would have been a lot of nervous system shock I'm sure. But its still pretty much a surface blow up, eh, and that's not optimal.

Maybe. He was straight opposite me but not exactly in line, and running up hill. So it wasn't difficult to go for the base of the neck/withers.

Yes, there were plenty of tiny fragments in the wound, and a couple in the lower shoulder by the hock when I boned it.

As I said, I wasn't too worried.

...but didn't kill it. The bullet penetrated to the neck bone, but caused very little physical damage to the actual bony structure.

Here's a pic of a 95 grn 243 Targex blow up on a bull Tahr (last weekend). It dropped the animal. It was running away from me at 200 yards and I was aiming for the base of his neck. The bullet did...