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The whisper should be plenty effective on deer. I have a 22lr rifle with a 17" barrel and a suppressor. I usually bring it along deer hunting in case I see a varmint run by. I use subsonic 30gr hollow points in it. This past season I had a very large doe that my dad wounded run in front of me and stop about 45 yards away. I could tell it was hit, but looked like a liver/stomach shot, a little too far back. Rather than have it suffer and die slowly, I grabbed the 22and shot it right in the side of the head, instant kill. Rolled over and feet up in the air. Subsonics do have a tendency to ricochet. But it sounds more like a bullet placement problem. If they are facing him just shoot right below the head, in the neck. Or in the eye socket. The front and top skull, on animals is pretty tuff. I've know officers that get called to a car cow accident and they have shot a cow 5+ times in the head at less than 10 feet away with a 40 S&W and the bullet would ricochet every time. Back up showed up and finished it off with a 12 guage slug. All that needed to be done was shoot it in the lower part of the back of the head rather than the front. Might also consider super sonic loads, my 300 wisper with the can on is quieter with super sonic loads than a 17hmr without a can. Just some ideas to try.
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