Where to place the shot?

Josmund · 11-22-2009, 06:49 PM

The fine folks on this site have been great as I worked up a load for new Omega this summer and fall.

I settled in on 100 gns of T7 with a 300 grn Scorpion PT Gold from Harvester. Shoots very well on the range.

My season opens in 10 days and I was wondering where the best shot placement is for this load? With my 7mm Weatherby I just blast through the chest and there is not much tracking at any range.

Is there a distance to take out shoulders vs. the vitals? Do you shoot this load like a broadhead? Any advice will be appreciated as this is my first year with a smoke pole.

Big Z · 11-22-2009, 07:01 PM

Use the 7wby tactics. Things will become dead.

Chasam60 · 11-23-2009, 04:02 AM

On broadside shots I line the vertical crosshair just behind the front leg and halfway up with the horizonal. On quartering away shots aim for the offside shoulder. Quartering to take front shoulder angling through rib cage. Works for me your results may vary

Charlie

UncleNorby · 11-23-2009, 08:12 AM

I don't know that bullet, but if it can handle bone, do exactly what you do with the 7mm. If not, shoot to break offside shoulder, pass on quartering-to shots.

spaniel · 11-23-2009, 10:53 AM

If you absolutely want that deer down where he is standing, blow it through the shoulder blade on a broadside shot. The bullet will most likely go through both shoulders and exit. What you are shooting is a LOT closer to the 7mm than the arrow.

If you want to minimize meat damage and can tolerate the deer running 0-100 yds, aim halfway up for the back hair on the leg, under the shoulder. You'll take out both lungs and/or the heart and ruin nothing but a little rib meat.

If the deer is quartering, think about the actual path through the animal and make sure the bullet path carries it through both lungs. On a quartering away shot, you'll aim a little further back and the bullet will cross through the lungs and into the front of the offside shoulder. On a quartering to shot, you'll put it through the front of the deer near the onside shoulder or through the onside shoulder depending on the angle, exiting behind the offside shoulder.