unhappy with Lightfield 20ga. performance ??

[Slackdaddy]

I have been using lightfield 12ga for over 15 years, and love them, lots of devisation, always good blood.
Recently I switched to 20ga guns, kids are hunting now too.

I have shot 4 deer this season with the lightfield 20's, all of them where not pass throughs.
3 of them where in the snow, with NO blood, not a drop.

Shot 2 deer on Sat, 1st was high and dropped her with a broken back, I then shot her in the neck (from the stand , 40 yards)
When I got down she lifted her head, crap I missed, shot her again in the neck, moment later, head back up, shot her again.
While examining her, all 4 where hits, 1 in the back, and 3 in the neck, with no pass throughs.

Next deer was quatering torwards me, shot and she "dipped and ran" Crashed 40 yards away.
Virgin snow, not a single drop of blood from the shot site to the deer, no blood at the "kick out" spot either.

Not a singlr drop ! if this was night and I did not see her drop, I would written it off as a miss.

I need a soft lead 20 gauge slug with a little more taper on the front, I need a blood trail with 3 kids now hunting.
Who make a good tapered lead hollow point in 20 Ga. ?

Slack

[spikehorn]

I was worried when I sighted my Tracker II 20ga in afetr having a scope rail put on and mounted a Tru Glo 2X red dot. I couldn't believe how light the recoil was with the lightfields. Well I got my chance at a Doe at 70 yards broadside. It boublr lungrd her had acomplete pass through. She went about 40 yards and I saw her drop but there was a good bllod trail. I will say the lightfields were about 3 years old, so maybe they have changed there composition.

[ptpalpha]

Slackdaddy, smoothbore or rifled barrel?

[Slackdaddy]

It's a heavy walled fully rifled barrel.
The lightfield look like a "keithnose" design, flat front with a slight dish.
I am looking for more of a tapered front, but in soft lead, not copper.

This is the bullit I use in muzzle loaders, any thing like this availible for slug guns ?


The one deer that was 1/4 towadrs me, I took the heart out, but I believe the front shoulder "plate" covered the hole when it ran.
This was fresh snow and not a drop of blood in the 30 yards it ran.

I realy want a slug to give me pass trhough.

Slack

[spikehorn]

The ones I use are the hybrids with the funky hour glass shape