I have the exact same results using a 375 H&H Federal Premium Safari 250gr soft point. Very little damage to the meat. Certainly much less than a shotgun slug. I use a 375 for everything that I hunt in North America.(Where I can use a rifle that is) Elk, Moose, Pronghorn, Mule deer and Whitetail. Glad to hear someone else uses a 375 H&H for deer.

By the way, that is very good photographic documentation I must say.

Browning A bolt SS Stalker. Magna porting tamed the wild beast.