Argument against small caliber? Blood trail/exit wounds?

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I shot a smallish mule deer buck with a 338 pushing 225 TTSX at 2750 at probably 200yds. It was a slight quartering away so entrance was at the back of the ribs and exit was 3 or 4 in behind the shoulder, IIRC. Anyway, it had sucked the guts out of both holes and also into the chest cavity... I swore off of shooting smaller game(deer etc) with big bullets that day. I suppose if I was shooting so far away I needed the BC of larger bullets, I would go bavk but that was enough destruction for me.

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