I had a friend shoot a small Kentucky whitetail with a .30-06 with 180g Partitions at 45 yards. The doe jumped in the air, stopped, then ran and crossed a creek off of the hunting lease. We called the land owner across the creek and asked if we could recover the animal. He said yes, as long as he got to keep the meat.
We then crossed the creek, where the land owner met us with his tractor to recover the deer. That 180g Partition went through off side shoulder completely wrecking it. The small doe still made it 85-100 yards and crossed a creek without lungs and with a mangled shoulder.
Is the 180g Nosler Partition too light for whitetail does?
I think we all have these stories, but does that prove a point one way or the other?
Is a .338 Mag a minimal cartridge for Whitetail does?
