I met the oldman who shot the buck while he was outsearching for the deer. He described the buck's antlers, the shot angle, the reaction. (deer initially dropped in it's tracks)

He was looking for that deer nearly every day, for several weeks. He was convinced it had died quickly and was simply laying out there unfound.

Five weeks later...The buck was not there under my standone day when I hunted then two days later there he was. He was so emaciated that his gut was sucked in like a greyhound andhis bones were visible through his fur. What was once probably a 200lb on the hoof buck was down to no morethanhalf that. I cut out the slug, a type I didn't recognize.I posted a picture here on the gun boards and the fine folks her told me it was a brenneke KO. The same that this guy was using.

Same slug, same piece of property, same antler description, (deer that size are few and far between on this property) And unfortunately you could tell by looking at the deer that it had taken it a longwhile to succumb to it's injury. Given all that, it's a pretty safe assumption that it's the same deer.

Okay done rambling.. now to onto redundant photo posting.

This is rough way to go. (and the strongest argument I can make against purposeful neck shots)