Ringworm, sounds like he made it 40 yards from the first hit?
FWIW, I hit a small buck w/a 338/06 yrs back, 200gr BT at 2910fps, range 40 paces, deer ran about 100 yds.....go figure, it turned and ran straight to me and turned just before my stand, and blood was GUSHING out of it about the size of a silver dollar. Bullet failure? Cartridge Failure? Not enough Power?
I think not. SLAMMED a few other large bucks, one at 200 yds was a DRT. I think sometimes the smallish deer lack enough mass to fully absorb a bullets energy.
Wonder what the insides of those deer on the above 2 posts looked like?
