I've seen the results of good hits in the heart lung area with VMax on large coons in the yard.
It does a great job of turning the chest cavity into mush.
I've also had them splash on ribs and leg bones, leaving a nasty wound that wasn't terminal. These required more effort to kill , and anyone who has tried dispatching a flopping, jumping, biting, wounded animal can testify that it can get messy quick.
On the other hand, I have found that the XTPs provide adequate penetration to reach vitals from most all angles (reasonable of course) and I've never had to apply a second shot to dispatch them. If the death wasn't immediate, then the animal was dispatched without much of a fight by my dogs, or by me standing on them to snuff them out. Then there's the rare one's that I muffed the shot on.... I can't blame those on the bullet.
Granted, these are coons, which are built a little more solidly than fox. I'm estimating that I've killed around 40 with my HMR in the last 4 years....most of them up in a tree.
Foxes are pretty scarce around here, and if I saw one around the property, it would get a pass.
As far as bobs go... man, they are all muscle and adrenalin when hit. I've removed the heart and both lungs on a couple with .223 and they still ran. One went over 100 yds...
I've had bobs in the yard in my scope, but I always gave them a pass. That's just because I like them around, though. I would head or neck shoot them and go for a CNS kill with the HMR if I was to try, just because of the way they are wired.
But that's the story about how I fell in love with the XTP and explains why I'll only headshoot yotes with an HMR. I've never even tried to shoot one through the body, basically because the mass of the bullet is too easy to deflect with bone.
That's just the way I've rolled though.
If someone is having success with a system, I say more power to em.
