Well crowpecker said it all, buckshot does not knock them flat like a slug, usually they get at least a bound in after it hits them, the boiler room, buck or doe to me is the ticket, my first deer ever was a doe on a dead run with buckshot, 9 pellets in her head, she skidded about 15 feet she was running so fast. Never take a shot at a deer running full tilt unless the area is wide open and you have bird hunted enough to know how to swing though/lead a moving target.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club