CS> I can echo your experience, exactly.  In years of hunting with a
CS> group (12) of handgun hunters in the whitetail season in Wisconsin,
CS> our experiments show that on fragile game like whitetail deer, that
CS> shot placement remains the primary component of clean, humane kills.
There's another consideration as well. If you depend on hydrostatic 
shock rather than shot placement, there's a whole lot less animal left 
to bring back. The shock wave literally turns tissues to jelly by 
rupturing cell membranes.
I know a guy who used to hunt deer with a .300 H & H. The results when 
he got one were horrendous. I'm sure the deer didn't feel a thing, but 
he had to wrap the deer in a tarp to drag it back.
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