don't like tracking deer, will trade a little meat for dead right there.
Probably a regional thing. I hunt thick nasty azz creek bottoms and want em dead fast. I don't like dragging them back across creeks.
Water may not be but knee deep but the banks may be 15' vertical and slick bastards. Try dragging a 200# buck up one of those boogers.
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If you'd buy an Uberlanche and 2Mi of winch-cable, none of that would matter.
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While a messy shoulder certainly doesn't look appealing, how many # of meat does the peanut gallery say one actually loses if you have to toss the whole thing? I suspect it depends upon how much facia (silver-skin) a person is willing to toss into their grind. Even if one just de-bones a pristine deer shoulder without then trimming facia I doubt many deer have a full 10# of muscle on 1 shoulder. I dare say that very few deer have 10# of facia-trimmed meat on both shoulders combined.
What I'm getting at is, does it really matter if a given projectile renders a shoulder unusable?
