Originally Posted by just_an_illusion
The picture Lockjaw linked tells the tale of SST's. Remember, the man said the deer was quartering away so that is the entrance wound. The rest of his discription tells the tale that there was an exit wound.

SST's expand immediately and violently. IF they hold together and exit it will be devastating. If he had hit the shoulder of a big old buck, it would have most likely been a different story.


That was the exit hole. The entrance was on the opposite side, high right behind the shoulder. I shot this deer out of a tree in a creek bottom, it went uphill into a pine thicket. There was blood everywhere, even 3 feet high on trees along its path. Blood all over the ground. It was not hard to follow. I have always been told deer don't bleed much going uphill. That was not the case here.