Well, if this comment is at all directed at me I'd have to say that I'm a bit offended by this implication, since I have always done all my deer hunting with a muzzleloader, have never had to shoot a deer more than once, and have recovered all the deer I've hit. The one that ran the farthest went about 150 yards or so before piling up with part of one lung and its liver liquified. It was my one "I should've known better" offhand shot at a deer that was slightly quartering towards at about 75yards. The slug deflected off a rib on the way in, making the alright shot worse. I was fortunate that it did hit the one lung and the liver, and the shot was a through-and-through which left a decent blood trail. If I'd been using a .223 that deer probably would have been lost, but the big .45cal QT made a nice big hole in and out.

Mike