You pretty good at tracking?? Lol

shoot them in the neck

I don't have a good or best , but I can say while a 55gr Hornady soft point works do not expect a blood trail , high angling down from a tree stand double lung 30 yard run not a drop of blood , it worked but I could see how it could go wrong if you couldn't see where it ran.

I went 300blk the next year and had to work at it to find a bullet that would give me an exit.

until I found a bullet that would even give a next I would keep to neck shots

You pretty good at tracking?? Lol

Too small of a kill area is why Wolfy.

then your aiming for the wrong spot on the neck , when we say neck people generally assume we mean just behind the ears
I mean where it meets the shoulder
we get a lot more quartering at us shots than broad side or away and that point of the neck is very forgiving , anywhere you break the spine before the front shoulder is a lights out
if you get just behind the shoulder or very high shoulder you can get down but not dead


look at what your hitting if you miss the actual spine , it is full of second chances to still have a very dead deer

Ive been on 3 recovery jobs involving deer shot with 22 caliber bullets. One was one i shot, mature whitetail buck. Recovered him as he went a very shot distance. Not a drop of blood, couldn't even find where he was shot from the outside. 2nd was a whitetail doe. Shot in tall crp. She ran over the hill and died about a hundred yds from where she was shot at. Found here a day later when the coyotes had spread her around. Again not a drop of blood to trail her by. 3rd deer was a young buck. Definitely hit , not know if it was a good shot or not. Not a drop of blood and never found. In my mind why risk it when a 243 or 6.5 is plenty mild for anyone to shoot. 22 calibers can definitely kill them but you have to handicap your so much to use them effectively.

What twist is the rifle ?

If it's slower that a 9 twist I have killed a ton of deer with a 53 gr Barnes X flat base and the 53 gr Barnes TSX flat base. Used it in 222, 22-250,220 swift,223, same results from all. Dead deer