I have been hunting whitetails for 57 yrs. and have only had three DRT, a doe and two bucks. Two were taken with 12ga. shotgun slugs, the third with a .44 Magnum 240gr.. One of the slug kills was hit just below the spine as was the .44 Mag. buck, the other buck took a 12ga. slug to the chest in a frontal shot. All the other deer were taken with high power rifles and were lung shot while standing broadside, they ran 30-60yds. some left good blood trails and others not so much. This past season's buck was a 100yd. raking shot that entered just ahead of the last two ribs and traversed the chest stopping just under the hide on the opposite side. He ran 40yds, the recovered bullet a Hornady 200gr. RN out of my .35 Whelen retained 66% of its original weight and was perfectly mushroomed. The lungs looked as though they had been put in a blender, adrenaline was all that enabled that buck to run cause his heart and lungs had been destroyed. While the hydrostaic shock was so devastating it had blown a portion of lung out the entry wound there was little blood trail.
Last edited by gunswizard; 03/26/19.
