The plug your gun to three shots would help. I don't know to many folks who have hit the deer with the 4th or 5th shot. I did use 3 to put down the 8 pt I shot this year, it was a drive and the guy below me jumped the buck and shot at him three times and didn't cut a hair(It's what he gets for hunting with somebody elses gun and not sighting it in). The buck ran back through the line of drivers and after he was well clear of the drivers below me I shot 3 times, missing the first, hitting with the second and breaking both front shoulders with the third and final shot. This drive was in mixed hemlocks and beeches.