Got invited to a friends farm for the KY early muzzleloader season. Showed up with my trusty TC renegade and about 7:00 pm center punched a 8pt about 160-170 lbs with a PRB over 75 gr fff as it stepped into the clear in a dry creek bed. With the smoke and flash I momentairly lost sight of the deer but didn't see or hear him crashing off or anything. I climbed down and started to reload before checking things out but thought well go look and see . He was stretched out in the creek bed right where he had been standing. In thinking about it of the 6-7 deer I have shot with a PRB at ranges from 15-120 yds none have cleared their shadow and most went down so fast I didn't see them fall. A small sample I know but my buddy has had pretty much the same experience. What make the lead round ball so effective. I've shot deer with smokeless cartridges from .243- 30-06 but none have generatedthe DRTs I have seen from those lead round balls tooling along about 1700-1800 fps.
