Quote Originally Posted by thermaler View Post
My friend just got back from hunting his lease over the weekend--he's been hunting forever successfully southeastern whitetails with a rem 243 but this weekend he sent one into a doe and he swears he got a good shot in the vitals--but off she went leaving no blood trail and he couldn't find her. Might want to reconsider giving up on that bigger bullet.
Right because there has never been a deer that ran off after being shot with a 300 win mag.

"forever" hunting successfully with a .243, and now one missed deer means the caliber is too small.... ??