Plenty of lost deer here in NY shot with a 12 ga. so Im not buying what's being sold here
Shot placement is king and trumps all else
Great truth here.
Up in eastern Saskatchewan I listened eagerly to a guy sitting on a big buck rub line.Telephone pole sized trees torn to shreds.
To "up his odds" on monsters,he had lugged along a Rem 660(600?) in 350 Rem Mag....the ultimate brush whitetail rifle for those marginal opportunities to rake them and dump them where they stand.....he said.
He came in next to last day with a raggedy immature 6 point(biggest he had ever killed), that was shot to pieces...hit 5 or 6 times between nostrils and butt hole.
At that, it had to be tracked.
Saskatchewan causes that kind of enthusiasm.
