WTB Most Devastating Deer Bullet

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You need a whole new gun for that situation, at that range the velocity was too high. Move that shot to 200 yards and it would have exited. Get a 30-30 or 45-70 and it will punch 2 holes thru at close range. There is no such thing as extreme expansion and exiting on larger game.

Hate to repeat it, but this!!!

Don't expect big blood trails with a rifle. Nice if it happens, but seldom does, especially with high velocity rifles. They usually punch right through with minimal expansion or expend total engergy within the animal. Many of the older rounds are much better as "brush" guns. A couple of favorites for the old timers (I'm 71, so you get the picture on old timers) were 30-30, 35 Rem, 348 Win, and .45-70. I think 30-30 killed more deer than any of them. Probably more deer than any other rifle. There juist might be a reason the 30-30 has been around as long as it has.