>>20832107Skin is very strong and elastic. Living bone is also very resilient. Inside his head could be soup, but even broken the skull can maintain a roughly normal shape.
For example, last week I shot a raccoon at 20 ft. with a 223 v-max that didn't even exit and the skin held all that energy in without ripping to shreds.
It looks like they shot him in the mouth, which is a cavity so the bullet didn't do much work after smashing a couple teeth until it hit the back of his throat. Even if it was in the nasal cavity, there is a lot of air that is absorbing the energy of the expanding bullet instead of flesh. If the bullet entered the skull instead and had to penetrate the thick bone and brain tissue which would impart more resistance on the bullet, causing it to expand more violently and impart more energy into the tissue, then the wound may have been more messy.
>t. guy who hunts a fair amount 