.....so we did a tracking job. Found him after him going maybe 250 yards downhill.
Do that in the East Texas woods and some redneck will be claiming your deer because you aint gonna find him.
On body length shots like this, ya think a heavier bullet would have been better?
No. As Dogzapper said, frontal shots tend to be low. You have to picture your bullets path through the vitals before you shoot and aim accordingly.
My brother-in-law shot a heavy Axis buck at 40 yards frontal with a 300 Wby, 180 gr Scirocco moving 3200 fps. The bullet did not exit. I found it in the third stomach. You just can never predict what a bullet is gonna do, even when you think you have the magic bullet.
