Put a nice 8 pt down yesterday. I went out with the intent to try a "behind the shoulder" shot with the 200 gr. Shockwave. I have taken 4 with the high shoulder shot with it and they have been bang flops. I shot a doe last year behind the shoulder but, I hit high so there was not much blood with a 60 yd recovery. Any how I had not been in the stand for 15 min. and here comes this small 8 pointer and a keep telling myself shoot behind the shoulder. He stops in a cedar thicket @ 45 yds, looks to be perfectly broadside so I place the crosshairs low 2" behind the shoulder and ignite the 110 gr. of BH 209. I wait for around 20 min. and walk to where he was standing. With a couple inches of snow I can see hair and blood spatter from the impact. I start out following the blood trail, then I see what not hunter wants to see, pieces of acorns and other stomach contents in the blood. I sit down to gather my thoughts on the situation and look around the side of the hill and see the deer stone dead 10 yds away. I walk over to where he's laying, point of impact was point of aim. I roll him over exit was a few inches behind the last rib. ( He was quartering to me) I cannot believe I got a pass through with that poor of a shot with the 200 gr. bullet. I know I got lucky with the short recovery on this one but, I don't think the 200 grain Shockwave is as fragile as some think. Didn't do much post mortum investigating because it was a mess but, looked to be massive internal damage. 
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