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I'm going with killing his arse on the spot instead of knocking a hole in it so that I can have the apparently really popular pleasure of a blood trail to follow for miles.

I'm sure you're exaggerating, but I've never blood trailed for miles a deer that's been shot well w/ an appropriate deer caliber/deer bullet. And yes, I plead guilty to ascribing to the "I like a good blood trail" group. OTOH, I don't think that just because a hunter likes to have an entrance wound, reasonable exit wound and a blood trail that can be followed, it means the deer is going to run off quite some distance before being found; I still expect the deer to go down pretty quickly. Case in point this past weekend. Someone in our hunting party shot a deer at 150 yards just before dark using a 308 and Sierra spire point bullet. Shot was low in chest, just behind the shoulder. Deer was found in the woods 30 yards later at the end of a very good blood trail.

I'm glad you found your deer. I suspect that had you been using a different bullet, the results would've been the same. The main thing is you were wise enough to let the deer lay down undisturbed and bleed out. Very mature move on your part and a good lesson for others. I also do appreciate your honesty.

Personally, I've never made a bad shot on a deer......well, except for the one I gut shot w/ a 35 Remington.....and the one I gut shot w/ my 270......and the one I got a little too far back w/ my 308......But, almost ALL my bad shots had to have been because the deer MUST have moved right after I pulled the trigger.

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Posted by AlxTgr

Kyre Banorg

Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 11/19/12 at 5:47 pm to TigerOnThe Hill

On a deer, if it's a good shot, pass through or not makes no difference in degree of death. I get the point faxis is making, but it's not one that matters in deer hunting, at all.

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Posted by faxis

La.

Member since Oct 2007

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Posted on 11/19/12 at 7:40 pm to TigerOnThe Hill

Tiger that's entirely too reasonable for a thread such as this.

Here's the thing though, I've never, until Saturday afternoon and that's after shooting probably around a hundred deer with it, stopped this round from exiting. Not a single time. Till Saturday.

The only time I've ever stopped a 125gr bullet in a whitetail other than this was a PSP. And it was the almost exact same shot. And the result was almost identical. So people saying they wouldn't use one because 1 in a hundred don't exit, are nuts. That's a non issue. If the deer doesn't drop dead I want a blood trail too. But it's really hard to fault the performance of this round when you're me because I don't have any stories of deer that got hit and got away. I've got a whole lot of stories of being amazed by how much damage this thing did both inside, and leaving the animal. And now I've got this one where the bullet saved the day.

I almost didn't post this simply because I knew how many people were gonna go, "AHA!!!! I TOLD YOU THEY DON'T LEAVE EXIT WOUNDS!!" But I know better... So far, it's like 1/100 and that just because it was such a horribly placed shot. But even so... she was dead as hell.

And yes, I have helped people trail deer that were shot in this same spot that had nice exit wounds that we trailed all day and never found. Thus my hatred for bullets that are too heavy for their intended target or too slow to cause the bullet to perform.

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