RE: Deer tail end shot
First off, you can shoot one from the back side and NOT hit the guts!!
Secondly, i will take ANY shot at an animial i presume is wounded!
Thirdly, i've made the shot more than a few times on animials, and there was no mess as far as guts in the meat. YouDO loose some meat at times and this bothers some more than others. Personally ilive in an area that's over run with deer, and i can "legally" pretty much shoot as many as i want. I'm NOT going to worry too much about looseing 5 or 6 pounds of meat in one of them.
I've said it before on here more than once and i'll say it again. Idon't care to carry a gun/load that won't shoot end to end of the animial i'm hunting for, and for me that means i use NP's for big game 99% of the time. If you match the weight of them to the animial, they will shoot through a deer end to end!
Drilling Man