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D F, I had considered posting these pix and decided not to do it BUT your post convinced me.
I have posted and commented on this but 'some' don't believe.
Obviously a bullet thru the ribs/lungs loses no edible meat but generally there is the death run.


I shot this Doe using the HI shoulder shot. At the 'TOP' of the shoulder



This is not a good pic of the R shoulder, that is blood but NO meat loss off that shoulder




I used the 'gutless' method and you can see the limited damage. None of the L shoulder lost.



Where I hunt most of the time I'm close to a fence, property line, and I use the Hi shoulder shot frequently.
When you learn to put the bullet at the TOP of the shoulder there is LITTLE meat loss.
Here I lost less than a double handful of meat.


I have pix of other deer I've dressed but they are in PhotoPUKEIT and are 'water marked' aka > BLURRED !
I've used 270, 06, & 7 RM. This is my preferred choice of shot placement for no tracking and minimal meat damage.

Jerry