This is the 3rd deer, 3 shots 3 deer, I have been letting alot of deer walk, too small, Doe with baby, let it get bigger if it has good genetics etc. This was the biggest, and it ran the farthest, the other 2 dropped in place. As a matter of fact I thought I had missed it because it didn't drop in place, I was really talking to myself about how did you miss. I saw it buck then it ran off, I heard it make a noise about 75 yards off in the woods but I wasn't sure it had crashed, I was hunting a thicket . I continued to hunting for the next hour, my partner came over and went in to look , he came out and said he couldn't find any blood, I was really talking to myself now. I got down and went to where I thought he had come out and found a big hoof print in a fire ant hill and then 1 drop of blood, then a few more, then lots more blood, then it was on the trees, ground, and then I saw him!! Each deer has had massive shock damage, this deer the bullet went all the way through entering behind the right shoulder and exiting the left front chest (he was quartering away from me). I found the copper jacket lying just under the hyde at the exit hole. It seems to me that most of the shock damage is on the entry side. So far there hasn't been much damage to the meat either. On this deer the inside of the right shoulder had the most blood gel.
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