Welcome to the forum Big Guy! I have yet to take a deer with this triple 4 but it absolutely disintegrated a fat proky! Had quills for 20' in every direction and stuck in the trees 6' up. I did not notice the 1 1/2" sappling a foot from the rear end when I shot. The bullet hit that prior to the porky and it was devistating! Our south zone season opens next week so I will be back out to fill the freezer with my son for his 1st year.