Originally Posted by
Whisky Creek
I don't recall David Heitsman saying anyone shot something in the ass?????? It reads to me like it was a decently placed and ethical shot and although he didn't say it, it sounds like the shooter would have correctly assumed that the bullet SHOULD have touched a lung on the way through to the shoulder, albeit at the end of the day the shot might have been a bit farther back than he would have liked..... What I took from his post is that his feeling is, had the shooter had a heavier rifle (ie: better bullet, heavier bullet, more velocity etc.. like the .300 wm he mentions) than the deer would be dead on the spot, and he is likely right.
Bullets kill in more ways than one, and hydraulic shock is in fact one of them. Again, he didn't say the shooter made the shot with the intention of killing the deer with hydraulic shock, but rather, that would have been helpful (in conjunction with the expected blood loss, broken bones etc).