All I know is when I go out for gun season I can see all the fields around me, and the hunters in their stands from 300 yards away ( I do not believe for one minute deer can't see hunter orange, it looks like road flares on a clear day). It never fails I will hear someone empty a whole magazine when shooting. Bang, a few seconds later, Bang, Bang Bang and Bang. Yet I never see any one dragging a deer out? And I may hear this 3 times in one day.

Then when I see a deer I aim my single shot, take the shot and watch the deer run off and fall ( I have yet to drop one in it's tracks, but I aim or the lungs not the shoulder or neck). Haven't lost one yet or gone a season with out filling my tag.

I will add though that the places I hunt afford me the time to have a scoped gun (no centerfire rifles where I live, either a slug gun or ML) and take my time on the shot at 50 to 100 or yards or so. I'm not hunting thick cover with a smoothbore at deer running by me, nor do I do drives. Both of these are situations where I might consider taking multiple shots if I thought I could do it. Truth be known I'm not all that great at those types of shots because I don't practice them, so I tend not to hunt that way.

Like I said before, I primarily bow hunt and that is how I started hunting. So using a gun is sort of a slam dunk for me, even if I only have one shot. If I can see it I can probably kill it. I can't imagine what it would be like using a .243 or .270. Then again it all depends on location. If you live in an area where the deer just don't get that close, like out west things are completely different. I can't imagine taking a longer shot then 120 yards at a deer where I live, 150 would be a real stretch around here and is my personal limit for an acceptable shot.

Paul