Originally Posted by moosemike
Originally Posted by prairie_goat
Your post doesn't make a whole helluva lot of sense. The deer shot with the 243 died. So what's the problem?


My posts sometimes have that problem. smile Sorry about that. What I was trying to say is that a killing shot, wasn't always as immediately apparent (or as instantaneously), with a .243 as a .30-06. Just speaking from what I've seen.


The deer is the determining factor more than the caliber. I've shot them with a 7 mag and they never showed any indications of being hit until they dropped 50 yards later. I've shot them with smaller calibers and they dropped DRT. I've had some run off when hit and you couldn't tell they were even shot and some do a flip even when hit in nearly the same spot with the same gun and load.