I have a propensity to look, I love recovering bullets when I can, but in this case I got lucky. The raccoon was on a hill side below my deer stand so the bullet, after passing through the raccoon, hit the ground at a very shallow angle. When I got down to look at the dead raccoon I could clearly see the bullets impact point with the ground. The bullet went down 4-5 inches and had then turned and ran parallel to the surface of the ground. It sort of looked like a mole tunnel running away from the impact site. I simply move to the other end of the disturb dirt, dug down, and found the bullet at the end of the soften up dirt. Took me only a minute or two of digging to find it. I also got lucky that it hit no rocks, were I hunt in middle Tennessee our property is very rocky so it was a fortunate recovery.