RE: .243 taking down big deer?
DD...I turned 50 in August...I'm pretty lucky...grew up in Eastern NC...Family has 3 farms...about 850 acres...We sell peanuts to Planters..also raise corn/wheat/soybeans...We kill 40-50 deer each year just to keep the population in check...
Rebel Hog...It never ceased to amaze me the lack of shooting skills of some hunters...My niece is 15..and I swear I believe she can outshoot most of the grown men that we have come hunt with us...I don't know if its lack of practice or buck fever...I hate skinning a gut shot deer...I feel like a highway patrolman when it comes to hearing all the excuses for poor shooting, anyway it seems that gut shot deer do happen...