I had a nice 8 pt buck come walking up to my tree stand, when he got to an open spot about 40-50 yds away I shot him in the boiler room with my .444 Marlin. The deer showed no reaction to the shot and just kept walking. I thought I had missed ( deflection by an unseen branch?) , racked a new shell into the chamber waited for a clear shot, bam. Same thing, the deer keeps walking no reaction. the deer goes 20 yds and stops by a fence line. One more time bam, this time he goes down. When I go over and start flied dressing there are 3 holes right behind the crease of the front leg . Each shot would have been fatal, but this deer gave no indication of being hit? Usually they clamp their tail down and scoot out asap. They seldom go more than 100 yds if hit in the chest, further back into the liver area they can go several hundred yds. gut shot several miles.