No question animals are tough. I know they've got adrenalin.
If I was a game animal and I got shot I'd do my best to attack the culprit and make sure he was dead before I expired.I don't have any sympathy for hunters that get attacked by defensive natures in the bush by any animal. I don't.It's what anybody human would do if they where attacked,I have no problem with that.You know I honestly think bullets and arrow heads are make too well these days. In the last three years I gave seen more wounded deer lost than killed.I wasn't there but I saw the bullet hole and exit locations it was exactly were I would have place my shot and exactly were I would have expected my bullet to have exited.I use 180gr. the Barns MRX for moose and elk season and than sighted in for the 165 hr MRX for deer. I'm thinking I may just go back to the Hornady Interlock for the rest of the deer season.Just because I know it will shed more fragments and not pencil through. These new bullets hit game like moose and elk hard, they really do, I've never seen anything like it, on moose and elk, but no Deer size animal should go 400yrds without any lungs unless it was just a pencil hole.I don't know what bullet Dale was using, I know he used a Barns tripple shock moose hunting but I don't know if he used this bullet for deer.But yeah like I said I think tomorrow, I gonna switch from Barns to Hornady for the rest of the deer season. I've herd too many wounded stories not to take a chance on me losing one.I appreciate the advancement that technology is giving us, it all seems great in theory, but in practical purposes it works on some but not on everything. I'm not gonna take a chance on hype, I'm gonna go old school and go with what's proven me to be the most effective on deer. It's been along time since I got an opportunity to shoot a big one buck, shot moose, elk , since but not a sheep or deer.Never wounded one never lost one, and I want to keep that record for as long as possible. Yeah it is inevitable that it will happen, I drive lots been in a couple of car accidents that Im not proud about, but I hunt lots and am very very proud of this record thus far. It's one I hopefully take to the grave when rotting in the ground.