Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
Shot placement is obviously very important, but poking a bigger hole through the heart/lung area will also insure a quicker humane kill most of the time with a properly expanding bullet. That's why the majority of states require a caliber bigger than the .223.
No it won't...Deer shot with my .243 drop just as quick at those with a .270, if the same type bullet is used...
One afternoon my brother and I shot the same deer with my .243 and his .270...Both shots went through the lungs and both would have been lethal...The deer still ran 75 yards or so before falling...
For the past 30 years we have killed 40-50 deer a year with various cartridges and we see no difference in size of bullet vs when the deer drops, it's all about shot placement...