Got two does and a medium 8 pointer with my 45-70 this weekend. Another doe with my 45-120. Here in many parts of Missouri you can get as many does as you want. We drive off my uncle's land, thousands of acres, most everyone goes home with plenty of meat even if they didn't bag a deer.
One doe I did not get pictures of, I gave it to an old man. It was with my 45-70 about 150 yards broadside, just behind the shoulder. It had a entrance wound about like a golfball, exit wound about like a softball with insides like mush. Surprisingly it still ran a short distance. Not very far though.
My buck I also did not get pictures of, my hands were NASTY and I wasn't about to get my iPhone bloody. It was also shot with the 45-70, about 100 yards running perpendicular to my position, a bit farther behind the shoulder than I would have liked, but didn't bust any guts, and he went straight down after a couple cartwheels. Entrance and exit wounds were much smaller than the first doe's, about nickel and half dollar size.
Buck:
Here is a doe shot with my 45-70 about 150 yards running, I led her correctly this time. Very gruesome wound, I hit about 2 inches above the sternum, and it opened her chest up at the shot, along with the entrance and exit...very easy blood trail to follow for the 50 or so yards that she made it before going down.
Entrance:
Exit:
Wound channel:
With no skin:
I shot this doe with my 45-120, she was on very steep hill above me. Entrance was about tennis ball sized, exit is...well, really big.
Only got one pic before I had to clean her. Despite the wound we got most of the meat off the front end since I pretty much centered her. She did not go anywhere after the shot.
Exit:
Sorry for the bad pics, horrible lighting in the barn where we hang deer.
