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Do larger calibers really compensate for bad shots?
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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1742573" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>I was helping a friend look for him. He shot at him and thought he had a good hit. He was wrong. We were on the edge of a beanfield on a levee where he shot him. The deer busted out a couple hundred yards down the field. He said that's him, the gun was slung on my shoulder. By the time I got it off and laid down to shoot prone, he was about that far, it is a guess. It was before LRF, but he was well over half way across the field and it was 1/2 mile across. He was shooting a .243 and we were assuming a bad hit that didn't go through. It was really a hail Mary trying to stop a wounded animal. He was running flat, like a wounded deer, not bounding. I'm a pretty good shot, but there was luck involved for sure. Hit him on the first shot. Wouldn't think of doing that to an unwounded animal, which he was, but I didn't know that at the time. I gave him his deer and let him tag it. Destroyed both hams. Seemed like the thing to do at the time. I hate chasing them. I feel like I must also add that we chased down several deer he shot with that little rifle. Always with either pitiful or non existent blood trails. Again, light for animal caliber. He bought a 7MM Weatherby a few years later and the problem went away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1742573, member: 92702"] I was helping a friend look for him. He shot at him and thought he had a good hit. He was wrong. We were on the edge of a beanfield on a levee where he shot him. The deer busted out a couple hundred yards down the field. He said that's him, the gun was slung on my shoulder. By the time I got it off and laid down to shoot prone, he was about that far, it is a guess. It was before LRF, but he was well over half way across the field and it was 1/2 mile across. He was shooting a .243 and we were assuming a bad hit that didn't go through. It was really a hail Mary trying to stop a wounded animal. He was running flat, like a wounded deer, not bounding. I'm a pretty good shot, but there was luck involved for sure. Hit him on the first shot. Wouldn't think of doing that to an unwounded animal, which he was, but I didn't know that at the time. I gave him his deer and let him tag it. Destroyed both hams. Seemed like the thing to do at the time. I hate chasing them. I feel like I must also add that we chased down several deer he shot with that little rifle. Always with either pitiful or non existent blood trails. Again, light for animal caliber. He bought a 7MM Weatherby a few years later and the problem went away. [/QUOTE]
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