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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 191795" data-attributes="member: 389">That is correct.&nbsp; I watched a fella shoot a WT doe with a 300 win mag one time, maybe 250 yds.&nbsp; With the wind and all, we didn't hear the bullet hit and she just stood there for a few seconds before trotting over a hill.&nbsp; We found her about an hour later, had a damn hole in the far side with her liver hanging out.&nbsp; She made it about some 300 plus yds to where I eventually found her.&nbsp;&nbsp; Shot was clearly fatal, just not immediately fatal.We all had given him a hard time about &quot;missing&quot;, in reality it was just off by 10 inches from being a much quicker kill.&nbsp; Point is...a bullet in the chest will put a deer down quicker regardless of what large (normally acceptable deer round) a person decides to use than any magnum just behind the ribs.My 11 year old son shot a WT doe this fall.&nbsp; He did his job and she travelled all of the 2 ft straight to the ground.I shoot a large enough caliber to make me comfortable with the energy it carries out to about 400 yds to put the bullet through the deer, or at least leaving the bullet in the hide on the far side.&nbsp; Several articles I've read suggest about 1200 ft lbs of energy is the magic number (whatever).&nbsp; That leaves my 25-06 good to 400 yds, and my 7 mm good to distances at which I won't shoot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 191795, member: 389"] That is correct. I watched a fella shoot a WT doe with a 300 win mag one time, maybe 250 yds. With the wind and all, we didn't hear the bullet hit and she just stood there for a few seconds before trotting over a hill. We found her about an hour later, had a damn hole in the far side with her liver hanging out. She made it about some 300 plus yds to where I eventually found her. Shot was clearly fatal, just not immediately fatal. We all had given him a hard time about "missing", in reality it was just off by 10 inches from being a much quicker kill. Point is...a bullet in the chest will put a deer down quicker regardless of what large (normally acceptable deer round) a person decides to use than any magnum just behind the ribs. My 11 year old son shot a WT doe this fall. He did his job and she travelled all of the 2 ft straight to the ground. I shoot a large enough caliber to make me comfortable with the energy it carries out to about 400 yds to put the bullet through the deer, or at least leaving the bullet in the hide on the far side. Several articles I've read suggest about 1200 ft lbs of energy is the magic number (whatever). That leaves my 25-06 good to 400 yds, and my 7 mm good to distances at which I won't shoot. [/QUOTE]

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