What? headshot doesn't kill?

[C. Black]

Could a deer run away after a headshot from a polymer 243 round? happened to me twice.

[Dread Arkive]

Generally speaking, headshotting game is not the best method. Their skulls are a bit tougher than you'd think, so heart, spine, lung shots are the best way to go.

[saphire jinn]

unless you put it right into the brain ( about the size of a small woman's fist) it wont drop em.
take the heart shot.

[C. Black]

ok thanks for advice

[Willow Rivers]

If you hit the brain it is a instant kill otherwise it is a flesh wound. I have downed some animals with a brain shot and some have run off with just being wounded.

[me3260]

I've been trying every now and then to brain shot easy animals to get the steam Zombie achievement. It has yet to work for me. I think I'm just gonna start braining Roe deer with my 7mm until I get the achievement.

[Tommyangelo]

even rl shooting a deer in head is a pretty tedious to setup when i could just make the heart/lung shot and take a whole 5 secs

[Mills]

I've been going after brown bears at night in Medved-Taiga as I seem to run in to quite a few in the SW corner of map. The most powerful calibre I have at the moment is a .270 (I'm still pretty low level as I've just gotten back into the game). What I do is just walk around or run depending on your preferred speed and eventually I'll run into a bear who is standing up on his hind legs protecting his territory. Thats when I pull up the .270 and give him one between the eyes. Drops em like a sack of potatoes. Skull/Brain every time... just make good shot placement.