I have to say it’s the shot placement and no bullet on this one. The last whitetail I shot was in Nov. 2011, right before moving to AK. The landowner wanted some deer meat, so I obliged. A nice herd of all does and yearlings crossed over to the property I was on, and I put a 139 gr. SST from my .280 Rem., right behind the front shoulder. Not a lick of blood, and it ran about 40 yards before piling up in a pile of logs. While SST’s have a bad rep, this bullet did what it was supposed to do. Had I not seen it’s hind leg sticking out of the logs, I don’t know if I would have found the deer, as we did not see where it went.
