ORIGINAL: TerryM
Use a heavier premium bullet designed for bigger game, it won't coma apart on a deer and should cause less destruction. Why did you think you needed a 7 mag to kill deer though?
I would NOT do this! A bullet designed for heavier game will not expand at all at closer ranges in a
7 mag, resulting in worse than ruined meat, lost, dead animal!
That said, I went back to my .308 and also a new .243 that has taken 5 deer this year! I'm over my bout of "magnumitis," you don't need a 7 mag for ANY Whitetail!