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I will be Hunting deer will be 20 yards - 300 yards. The 300 win mag is to much HP and ton of meat damage. What caliber do you use with, that don`t destroy a lot of meat. Meat damage is not so much about caliber as it is about bullet selection and shot placement. If I were you, I would probably be looking at something like the .257 Roberts, and a Barnes TSX bullet, for behind the shoulder, lung shots.
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Heavy for caliber slugs at moderate velocity put thru the ribs to double lung them will kill fine without excess meat loss. Then they'll get to complain about well shot deer running farther than they used to .
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That Barnes bullet in Coyote's pic did an amazingly small amount of damage to that deer given the impact velocity. I've seen worse (slightly) from my 30-30.
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That Barnes bullet in Coyote's pic did an amazingly small amount of damage to that deer given the impact velocity. I've seen worse (slightly) from my 30-30. That buck was not a straight-down DRT. I had to trail it for 3 or 4 yards. Every step took it closer to a 4x4 trail so I didn't really care. The final drag to where it lays in the photo (you can see a tire track to the right of my pack) was 2-3 yards. Wish they were all like that.
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Like others have said I'm a big believer of heavier bullet for caliber. I shot a moose one time that was looking away from me in some thick stuff. Shot it with a 375 H&H 300 grain Barnes bullet and I could eat up to the hole. Not one bit of blood shot meat.
200 grain 30-06 will do the same thing.
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I had good luck with the 30-30 Winchester shooting Federal 150 grain factory ammunition and the 250 Savage shooting the 100 grain factory ammunition. Looked like you could eat all the way to hole with either. I think any cup and core bullet going a moderate speed would do the same (2200 -2800 fps).
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6.5x55 swede with 120-140 bullets ( hot core, hornady, nosler partition), shoot em thru the shoulders, DRT, very little meat loss.
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.22 LR will certainly minimize meat damage. 
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Better to lose a little meat than the whole deer. So what if you lose some meat, I don't much like shoulder meat anyhow, so that's where I aim.
I use the 130 ProHunters in my .270s, and don't have to trail them anywhere except straight down.
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I will be Hunting deer will be 20 yards - 300 yards. The 300 win mag is to much HP and ton of meat damage. What caliber do you use with, that don`t destroy a lot of meat. So shoot them in the ear.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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You could, of course, use the PPM 7x57 WhifflebulletPusher and just bruise them a bit when the slug bounces off, that would save a lot of meat.............
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