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    • Honestly, the older I get, the less I get it too. It’s is just one of those old chestnuts that hangs out there in the Internet deer forums and seems to never go away.

      DRT (Dead Right There) is a wish, not a reality. You want that deer to go down on the spot. A good number of mine have gone down that way, but this year? 0-2. Two deer one at 120 yards, one at 15 yards, both with a 35 Whelen. Both ran about 100 yards before falling over.

      What was it? Was it a lack of hydraulic pressure? Was it not enough bullet expansion? Martians? As I mentioned in my post-mortem to this season,

      Moral: CHEESE & RICE, FOLKS! If I cannot drop a 136 lb doe in her tracks with a 35 Whelen at 15 feet with a shoulder exploded, the top of the heart taken off and the lungs flopping around out of the exit wound, what does that say? I think, at least for me, the myth of DRT, the question of best blood trail rifle, and a bunch of others great canards of deer hunting just went up in a puff of H4895. I will let you know when the smoke clears from out of the deer blind.

      The reason why I continue to write about DRT as a concept is twofold:

      1) As late as the end of last season, I was still having dreams of DRT
      2) I get a lot of email and web searches asking me about DRT as a concept. What’s the best rifle, the best bullet, etc to achieve DRT?

      The truth is just about any commonly used deer rifle and load will produce a deer dead in his tracks sometimes. Some of it is going to be shot placement. However, as I demonstrated this year, even that does not always hold a deer in place. Sometimes a deer just has to run a little before taking the big dirt nap.

      Thanks for writing.

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