The last big buck I killed with my 243 already had 3 100 gn core lokts in him when I shot him in the neck. He laid down and got back up. 5 th bullet under the ear turned him off and I never used the rifle again. The year before I killed a big buck with it and put 2 through the.ribs and one in the jaw running. He went a 1/4 mile into a bad place to drag one from. I use bigger bullets now and don't have that problem any more.
I had a problem with one big buck and the 243. It took five shots to kill him. But the first four were shiit shots, hitting in the margins, rather than good vitals hits. They only served to amp his adrenaline.
Again, it's the Indian far more than it's the arrow. Animals don't die because of headstamps. Thinking a cartridge is to blame is irrational. All you've done is create a superstition around little marks on a piece of brass causing (or not causing) an animal's death.
