The doe that I shot was rather small, 100lbs. I normally don't shoot deer this small at all, it was a weird set of cirumstances. I had been patterning this really nice 10pt all year that year through cam pics and scouting. One of his trails crossed a road, walking through a old loading clearing (logging).

I got out of the stand one morning and was heading home and passed by the old clearing. When I got to where I could see it, ole Mr. 10pt was standing there. I passed the clearing like I never seen him and stopped about a 1/4 away. Got out (this was still our land) and tried to circle around him b/c I knew just where he was going.

I didn't make it, he beat me, so I decided to go back to the truck. On the way out, I walked to the clearing to check it out. When I got to the edge of a briar bed, a deer jumped up 25 yards from me. Being so excited, hopeing it was the buck, I put the cross hairs on its neck and fired. (I will never do this again and shouldn't have that time). When I walked up to the deer, it was a doe that weighed around 100lbs. I hit her in the middle of the neck. I was stunned by the amount of blood EVERYWHERE. All over the ground, trees, her body. It was quite a "murder" scene.

When I bent down to pick her up, I noticed that her head was hanging on by her windpipe and a little bit of hide. The BST completely blew her spine and meat in 1/2.

I am not saying its a bad bullet, I was just stating MY opinion about it. As I also stated, the BST is the most accurate bullet I have ever shot out of my rifle. At 200yds I put three bullets in the same hole with the entire hole only being the size of a dime.

A .243 will kill a deer, don't get me wrong. My uncle kills 20+ deer a year and all he shoots is a .243. He has killed 200lb+ deer with it. I just like having a little heavier bullet and again, JMO- I think that if a person wants a deer rifle with no recoil (kids, women) or men that like no recoil, that a .270 or .308 is a better choice b/c of the heavier bullet.