Shot at 40 yards (lasered afterwards).

Quartering shot through the right thoracic cavity destroyed both lungs the entire top half of the heart and the left acromion process (shoulder). Only meat damage was due to the entrance hole and exit hole. It looks slightly blood shot but it ended up just being some blood trapped around the outside and not actually damaged meat.

I'm sold on the H&H on deer. My brother's .308 with 165gr and 150s does far more damage to the animal. Nice, slow, big, and well built bullets seem to be perfect for harvesting game.

I don't think I'll ever shoot a deer with a .243 good grief (unless it's a long ways away and the bullet will have had time to slow down).

We had to sneak up on this deer (part of a "herd" of 4).
We saw the deer in the field next to the one we were traversing. However, they were much to far away to shoot through trees etc. that separated the fields. My brother and I had to crawl across 100 yards or so of field to a raised bank of a creek to watch them and then down through the creek and into the next field over where we spied them walking up the side of the mountain (we thought they had left). My brother indicated quietly that they were actually on the side of the mountain to our left and up went our rifles. Probably took 3 seconds from the time our rifles started coming up to my shot.

a 1x scope (burris short mag which is actually 1.5x) isn't always the best choice but It's hard to beat for fast shots!!!!