Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I've killed whitetails, close to a 100 of them, with 20 guage slugs, 223, 243, 6.5X55, 270, 7mm Mauser, 308, 303 British, 35 Remington, 50 caliber muzzleloader, and I'm sure a few more than I can't remember. The biggest percentage of my kills were with the 270 Winchester, and I don't remember having to track any of them.
I've killed well over 100 with a bow alone... almost every one shot with a gun that are not head shots, I"ve had to look for a bit...
Lots of it depends on where you shoot, IE I won't shoot bones and waste meat, and how destructive a bullet you shoot... that's been obvious to me over the years.
