Killed a buck with the 00 load last year that was pushing 70 yards. I shot him 3 times. From the back of his ribs to his nose he had close to 20 pellets in him.
Is that an endorsement of the load? Or not?
That is bad ass performance from a good patterning shotgun. The pellets that didn't penetrate fully were on the hide on the far side. He died so hard that he cracked a horn running into a tree where he piled up. Distance from first shot to dead was probably less than 40 yards.
It might be lonely at the top, but it's a bitch at the bottom.
