I have eliminated that problem. I shoot deer about 4" below the back line, in line with the front legs. The deer has dropped in its tracks everytime. Both shoulders are typically broken along with the spine, and both lungs are gone. I have shot several deer this way and have yet to have one run off.

Some have said: you ruin too much meat. That's not accurate. There isn't much meat in that area of a deer's shoulders. I have spent too much time carving that little bit of meat out of the shoulder bones.

Deer can run too far and too long before succumbing to a heart/lung shot, I have chased my last one.

With that said, it all comes down to ethical hunting. If you wound a deer and it runs off, and another hunter shoots it, we have a moral dilemma. Did you have a killing shot? If it runs several hundred yards, I would say even if you did and another hunter then puts another bullet in it, you will have a problem. Shoot 'em in the shoulders, they don't go anywhere but straight down.

knock 'em down

T.