Chap...If you want to drop them in their tracks, put the bullet through the shoulder blade, the spine is directly behind and they will drop...A neck shot (when I say neck I mean where it joins the body as it doesn't move as much) will also work, but the high shoulder shot gives you a little more leeway...Many will ask, why mess up the shoulder??? Well, when you grow up with swamps, bears and cutovers sometimes its just best to drop them, then you have no blood trail to worry about...

I have done this with many different .243 bullets, in my inline I have done it with the 300 Barnes copper and the 250 SST....I have also done it 7-8 times with the .54 and a round ball, although I usually aim right behind the shoulder with that, like a good bow shot...

Actually I feel the SST is a bit too hard, now I only use 90 grains FFF Goex...Every deer I have killed with that bullet dropped as I shot all but one of them in the shoulder blade (8 of themI believe)...Shots were from 15 steps to 143 ranged yards...The one I didn't shoot in the shoulder, I shot quartering towards me at the base of the neck....A few years back I had a buddy hit one square in the lungs with the 250 SST, using 90 grains of 777...Dang deer went 125 yards or so, the last 25 in one of our swamps, so I ended up in the swamp, water up to my knees, in my boots, and thinking "I'm getting too dang old for this..."We didn't have a blood trail on that one until we went 75-80 yards or so...So now, I don't worry about the blood trail, with the inline, they make it after they fall...

The reason I have stuck with the SST is it's aerodynamic...I have tested it beside the 300 .451 Hornady XTP, the 295 PowerBelt, the 300 Barnes and the 250gr .452 Hornady XTP....I use the inline when I want to hunt over soybeans, corn, etc and might get a 150 yard shot and want the scope for low light condidtions...It will print one ragged hole at 100 yards, sighted in 2 1/2 high, I'm 2 1/2 low at 150 and will have a 2 inch group at that range....