Thank you, thank you, thank you! Why do folks wanta get cute , take the high percentage shot and load the deer in the truck.

Looks to be a big land owner/farm estate just across CR 9 and across shultz creek. If you are serious enough to give exact directions where you shot the buck then you should at least go ask the neighbors to look.

GPS location

same folks that want to shoot a 223, or a 9mm pistol to kill deer. Shoot a damn deer rifle that will get the job done.

I agree about the 9mm but I got a 13yrold daughter that will tell you that a 223 will cleanly kill a deer and also a photo album full of pics of dead hogs that that fell to the 223. Shoot where they live and they will not make it far.

Marsh, I agree a 223 WILL kill deer and yer daughter prolly wouldn't go if she had to shoot a 30/06. My grandson started with a 223, killed a deer and hog. But it sure as hell isn't as good a deer killer as a 270W by a long shot. And in take em as they come deer hunting that 223 will let you down by wounding or not letting you take a marginal shot that a 270 can handle.

I've killed every one of over a dozen deer i've shot with a 22lr standard velocity hp, and short hps . DRT. It doesn't make a 22lr a deer rifle.

My 270W loaded with 130 gr Nosler Partitions will kill EVERY deer at any range, at any angle, any size. A 223 won't do that. Been there done that. I've seen neck shot deer with a 223 run off wobbling and need a back up shot with a bigger gun. Range was too far and bullet mushroomed against the spine, damaging but not dropping the deer.

Tru Dat. I feel the same way about neck shooting deer 😏

I agree 100% that the bigger rifle is better and hopefully this will be her last season with the 223. She is 2 for 2 with it but I keep her shots to a reasonable distance. She is an excellent shot with HER as she calls it AR15 223 and I'm afraid she ain't gonna give up HER 223 very easily. Im gonna step her up to the 6.8spc,6,5gendel or the 7.62x39 in the AR platforms I built.

Didn't u just finish a 7.62 built for her

You could just get her on a suppressed 308 very easily.

...or head shots. Very low percentage shot, and any small error can cause a very inhumane death for the deer weeks later.

And lets not leave the big bore, super duper magnum boys out who think they can shoot them anywhere above the knee caps and kill them.

I still remember my buddy's exact words. "All I have to do is hit em with this 300mag and they are dead". After he lost the 3rd deer he put that thing up and went back to his very nice fine shooting rem 700 270. Ain't lost a deer since. It would kick the dog chit outa him and he would flinch bad.

SHHHH!!!! Santa clause may be working on her a nice little bolt action. She just got it in her head that she is gonna hunt with one of those ARs. You know"it's cool".

marsh my buddy has a BNL like that. He has a fine 300mag, topped with a 2,500 hundred dollar scope, and yet he can't hit an oak tree at 50 yards He flinches bad, and my buddy's told him numerous times to either practice more, or start shooting a smaller caliber, but he won't have none of it

I'll take a deer quartering to me neck shot 100 times out of 100. I put the crosshairs on the base of the neck, in front of the shoulder, squeeze the trigger and go get the truck or 4 wheeler. I don't shoot every deer in the neck but if they're quartering to me I do. I have killed 15 or so that way I guess and not one of them has taken another step.

Yeah, but you're still driving the bullet through the deer's boiler room.

Pretty sure James was talking about folks taking standing broadside neck shots.

Ever find any more sign of the buck Richard?

you hit the nail on the head right there. waiting on the the shot that a gun/ammo can make will cost you some nice deer . i dont like bad angle shot but i'll take one ever time if i think thats all i'll get . why i shot a gun that shoots a bullet that will expand good and exit from any angle . busting the gut dont bother me , what they made hose pipes for . lol

i have hunted that way for many years and have put many deer in the truck .

buttttttt , no matter what you shot enough at some point you gonna lose a deer .

i've seen the same thing as you two . over gunning is just as bad and under gunning . i've seen guys go to heavy hitting rifles a couldn't shot them for nothing . heavy recoil aint for ever body . once you get that flinch it hard to rid of at times .

my opinion is shot the biggest you can and be accurate with it . know your limits !!!!!

I'm still wondering if a tracking dog ever got a chance to try and find the deer.