Tried it ONCE..it worked...but yeeeech whatta mess. Was a very nice buck opening day of 2002 gun season. I was in a tree stand so I had a rock solid rest...was bout a 80 yard shot. He was slipping straight away an about to give me the slip.He went down at the crack of the gun...but I would definitely hesitate to do it again. Was with a 270 using a 130gr Fed Classic.

Try a different lure, you aint had a bite in about a week.

That's disgusting. Nobody NEEDS to hunt. If you did, you wouldn't care about seasons, regs against baiting, snares, or jacklighting. Since it's just for sport, only a lameassed slob would take such a shot.

I have no doubt my .30-06 firing a 150 gr.Core-Lokt would get through to the vitals, but it's not something I would want to prove in the field. Antlers are great, but I want meat in the end. What's the point of killing a deer if you get guts all over everything you'd normally eat?

As far as lesser calibers getting the job done...I have no idea what works and what doesn't. Better not to even try.

One thing I have seen when shooting in the chest, if you hit the stomach, grass and food in there can stop the best of a bullet like a rock.

Seen that too, a "friend" shot a buck in the gut (broadside) with a 7 mag and had no exit wound, had to shoot it again and made a better shot the second time and he got his buck, but once again, what a mess.

First off, you can shoot one from the back side and NOT hit the guts!!

Secondly, i will take ANY shot at an animial i presume is wounded!

Thirdly, i've made the shot more than a few times on animials, and there was no mess as far as guts in the meat. YouDO loose some meat at times and this bothers some more than others. Personally ilive in an area that's over run with deer, and i can "legally" pretty much shoot as many as i want. I'm NOT going to worry too much about looseing 5 or 6 pounds of meat in one of them.

I've said it before on here more than once and i'll say it again. Idon't care to carry a gun/load that won't shoot end to end of the animial i'm hunting for, and for me that means i use NP's for big game 99% of the time. If you match the weight of them to the animial, they will shoot through a deer end to end!

Drilling Man

I know of a guy who's made such a shot, though going in the other direction. He used a .458 WM Using a reduced load with a huge cast lead bullet. Big slow and heavy zippend the deeer from end to end when he shot the deer straight on from the front.

Not meant as a "lure". Just citing it as it was once tried, and did not work well with the 243Win. Never did find the jacket, but the
bullet core was found in the paunch. After the antelope turned a little, a second shot in the lungs finished it off.
Another time, involving a spike buck mule deer at a range of approx. 125yds., the jacket/core again seperated. This involved a head-on/facing shot. The shot was about perfectly placed into the
neck, and one lung was hit/destroyed. As the buck was approached it attempted to stand up, and it was finished off with several shots from my S&W Mod.57 (41mag.). But, the point is that the bullet did not do its' job well, and penetration was poor.

As DM noted,

For deer size game there's really no excuse not to adhere to this principle, and so I prefer the such as the 270Win. and/or the 308Win.
No more "varmint" guns for deer (ie; 243Win.)

Thank you all for the comments. I have heard about horrific odors from ripped deer so although it is no surprise, I found myself laughing reading through.

Thanks. You are real champs on this board. I appreciate the detail.