Thanks -- I think so too. That was her second deer. #1 was a forty-yard offhand shot, also with the same 16ga shotgun, right through the center of the chest. Upon field-dressing it, I discovered that the slug had passed through both lungs, right across the top of the heart -- severing the aorta and the pulmonary vein. Deer ran about sixty, seventy yards, in a big circle. Dropped dead maybe five feet from where it was standing when she shot it.
In fact, I haven't had to track *any* of her deer.
Wish I could shoot that well...
It runs in the family, though. Her dad used to be an archery instructor. And her brother shot pistol competitively for ten years in the Navy. He's an amazing shot. The first year that pistols were legal for deer hunting here in Indiana, I went with him when he sighted in. Leupold 4x rifle scope on a Ruger Black Hawk .44 mag. He set up a 50-foot pistol target on the 100-**yard** range, and proceeded to shoot the black out of it. I was watching through a
30x spotting scope, and didn't see an impact from one round. He said he was sure he had a good sight picture, so I looked again, and finally realized that the bullet had gone smack through the zero in the "10".