Free, for pure broadside shots, the bottom yellow dots will not consistently kill a deer quickly and with a trail good enough to trail and put a second shot into.
Move the dots to the left on your pic about 3 inches and you are hitting structures that will make it so a deer is much more likely to die, give a decent trail, and die quickly.
I am not good with circles on pics, but in my opinion, your circle is too far forward and the dots border on a really bad shot to being a really bad shot (the lower ones).

Can anyone get lucky and have a bad shot end up lethal, absolutely. But i know most of us (i know you don’t) want to play that game.

Your top two yellow dots probably hit spine. The rest hit nothing.

My normal target area is pretty much Smokey Bear’s green circle. As someone mentioned, quartering shots require an adjusted aim.

Depicts a Beautiful oval 😇

Does the circle change with bullet type

Agree with everything on here except the void area comment. The high shoulder shot is a lung and spine shot that shocks the nervous system due to the proximity to the spinal column. There is no void between this shot and a good double lung shot. There literally is nothing in that space to create a void, its either lungs or spinal column.

I think where the idea of a void area comes from is the higher shoulder shot, above the spinal column and how that can be confused with the high shoulder shot. The good high shoulder shot is still more than a quarter to a third down into the body. A hit there will get spine and drop a deer. But, if you hit above that, then you are hitting backstrap and you may get lucky and have a spinous process twist and paralyze a deer, but a pure backstrap shot is not lethal. People hitting here will say they hit high shoulder, saying it went between the spine and the lung in the mythical void area, but really it hit above the spine above everything vital.

Just my opinion based on anatomy, and don’t want to derail this thread off topic.

There is a void under spine but it’s not meaning full behind shoulder bone, the meaning full one is past(left, and clear) of the shoulder bone. It’s more of an arrow issue then typically a bullet wound channel

This is why recommend bullets with a bigger wound channel. Increase the cone of damage increase the circle size.

With that said I can only think of two animal in last 10 years I didn’t kill with some variation of HSS.

I’m working on a new thread. Similar but a little different from this one. I’m changing my circle some and changing my explanation some. Stay tuned.

You need to tag out first

BOBO, i am not catching what you are throwing here…care to give a better explanation?

Only doing this since Free checked out of this one and we can go off topic more.