I can recall, quite a few years ago now, shooting a sub 150 pound caribou with a 200 NBT from a 340 Weatherby. Instead of squarely drilling that young meat animal in the lungs, I very neatly splattered the paunch. I had done a sighting check just a few days before in a pretty good crosswind and had made an excessive amount of appropriate adjustments apparently. What should have been either a neat tip-over, or at least a brief circle and down, instead turned into a defiant stance against the efforts of gravity. To say I was surprised that a small animal could withstand that much 'energy' would be an understatement. It certainly never occurred to me that I failed to bring enough gun. I was quite embarrassed about the errors I had made in directing the bullet however.
Enough gun falls behind 1.) enough placement, and 2.) enough bullet in my book...
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
