As far as wound Chanel's go that's and even bigger reason besides velocity of how amazing this new ammo is! A lot of this new stuff expands to enormous size. Heck even the solid bear loads the bigger grain bullets are longer in the case and pretty big ya maybe not wider but longer and a lot of times as soon as that bullet hits some none inside the animal it will go sideways and tumble around leaving a bigger exit hole! But the new stuff like gold dot , barns Xbp , buffalo bore deer grenades and others will take care of the wound channel . But as said if you reload there are some awesome calibers out there but if you don't and use factory ammo like me the 44 mag is hands down the best North American hunting revolver in my eyes ...