Not unusual for a deer shot thru the lungs to run 100 to 300 yards before expiring. More than enough distance for your trophey buck to get to adjacent private property rendering it unrecoverable.

Shooting a deer in an openbean or cornfield where you can watch it fall after an extended death run is not a luxury all of us have. The area we hunt in has thick cedars and russian olive trees so dense that you have to get on your hands and knees in the mud and crawl to access them. Next to thatis 120acres of CRP grass 5ft tall

Compound this by shooting a deer in the late evening and your in for a long night with a good possibility of not finding the deer until the next morning.

It'seach individuals decision where to aim at a deer but I almost always choose the high shoulder shot so there is no tracking involved.