I didn' t mean any offense to you Maineah, I' m just sick of alot of people always reccommending that you should use a superduperultramagnum because of the chance of a gross shooting error when a standard caliber is adequate even with a moderate level of shooting skill.[>:]

With lighter cartridges use adequate cartridges like X-bullets or Nosler partitions and you will never have a problem. In a whitetail deer, there isn' t any heavy bones or muscle blocking the boiler room that would stop a properly designed .243 bullet from passing clean through. I know its hunting and cosmic crap happens, but I' ve seen many more wounded animals escape after being shot poorly with a more powerful cartridge than in total with lighter stuff.