From what I read years ago, match bullets have thinner jackets and don not hold up/expand like hunting bullets. They tend to fragment and wound, partly from uncontrolled expansion and then fragmentation. So you wind up with a bad wound instead of a clean kill.
I'm having trouble differentiating between a "bad wound" and a "clean kill".
Assuming the same shot placement, there are two mechanisms which lead to death: 1) hypovolemia
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In layman's terms, #1 above is "bleeding out", typically from a COM (center of mass) strike, and #2 is a "head shot".
A COM hit generally does not produce "instant death" as -- depending on an individual's physiology and many other factors -- semi-normal functioning is possible for anywhere from 15 seconds to 5 minutes even with traumatic injury within the thoracic triangle (draw a triangle between your nipples and the top of your breast plate at the base of your neck -- if you take a round in that area you got yourself a major problem which is typically not solvable "in the field"). Outside of the thoracic triangle, the outcome varies widely.
A proper head shot, assuming the medulla
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Back on topic, in terms of hunting -- head shots on game such as deer could be considered "risky" and even inhumane. The target is small and constantly swiveling around. A poor shot could result in significant damage to the animal's jaw, for example. Unless successfully tracked and put down, the animal will slowly starve to death over the course of a few weeks. For this reason, "COM" on game animals is advised -- through front shoulder and into vital organs for example.
Accordingly, there is no "lights out" with this approach. Taking the animal rapidly and without extensive tracking depends on maximizing the damage withing the equivalent of the thoracic triangle -- meaning heart and lungs, primarily. Whatever projectile maximizes damage in this area will minimize the time until cessation of effective cardiovascular function.
Wrooster