i killed a whitetail buck in e. wa. from about 30yds with a .270. it was a hornady hot load featuring a 140gr nosler ballistic tip. that buck never moved another inch, flopped over quivering. the bullet shattered into a billion pieces, the largest we found was the base, completely devoid of lead. the heart and liver were shattered, tho my partner salvaged a piece of the heart for dinner. ended up munching on a fragment. not a close-range projectile.