I shoot em in the lungs, using (these days) 120 gr Ballistic Tips in my 260. They don’t run 300 yards. If they did I would rethink the bullet I was using, or guess that I just nicked the lungs rather than destroyed them. Destroy them and they go maybe 40 yards, if that far. Nick the lungs, and they can still breathe, and a long run is certainly possible.
This is data personally gathered over 50+ years of hunting and a couple hundred lung shot deer.
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