Create a good hole so you don't need a tracking dog.
I don't know what I hit, but it was with a .308 Win., 165 grain BT at 2700 fps at about 25 yards from a treestand. Stevie Wonder could've tracked it. Deer's laying in the top-center of the pic.
My .243 never did that. If I were to complain about the .243, it would be the blood trail. It would kill the hell out of deer, they just didn't leak much.