re: 300Blackout For Deer Hunting

I’m not understanding how people relate bullets that exit to poor blood? If you are shooting subsonic then yes you are likely doing less damage, just read any number of journals that discuss high velocity rifle shots and tissue damage.

But I think people are quick to forget where a deers heart is and how many rifle shots midway up the body are actually relatively high for producing a good blood trail on game out of a level shot. Archery shots are close and from 12-18 ft up a 30 yard shot often has a low exit. Blood exits the body a lot faster with low body cavity holes. If you shoot a deer at 100 or 200 yards and the entrance and exit are middle lung and it dies in 10 seconds on a 50 yard run, that’s just not enough time for blood to exit often times.

There’s often very common sense reasons for good blood or bad blood. Hitting the heart is a ‘low’ shot.

A lot of guys also hit that rear shoulder blade on exit and then complain about no exit hole…sure a 30-06 caliber or bigger probably blows through it, but plenty of smaller calibers just won’t.