Kilt my first with a .270 when I was 13. It was the first deer I had ever seen while hunting, and I had hunted 6 years before seeing that one. He stepped out into a field head-on and I didn't even wait for him to get broadside. I threw the gun up and shot him right through the chest and the bullet exited out one of his butt cheeks. He dropped like a stack of bricks. He was a fun one to clean as you can imagine.