ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
Sorry dude (NY Bowhunter), but your wrong. You may be a champion marksman, and never missed in your life, and always had your deer fall instantly...but there is NO WAY FOR ANYBODY TO BE 110% SURE OF ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR DEATH AND TAXES!!! Crap happens. You dont know the physiological condition of the deer you shoot. You have no idea how much " fight" can be in a deer. A bad shot can always happen, and there is no way anybody can be sure that a deer is "dead" at the moment you pull your trigger or release your bow. thousands of freak occurances happen man, and if you think you or your gear is "110%" sure, then you my friend have an arrogance problem...no disrespect implied...
sorry "dude" but can you point out where I stated I've never missed a deer? I agree s#$% happens and has to me too. My point is when I shoot at an animal I have my mind 100% made up the deer is getting a double lung/heart shot. Sometimes things go bad after the arrow is released or the trigger is pulled. However, EVERY single time I'm zeroed in on the vitals and will NOT fire untill I'm 110% sure of that it's going to hit the vitals. My comments geared towards this comment.
Saying to only take a shot you are 100% sure will quickly kill the deer is just talk.
You have to have it in your mind that it is 100% sure or don't take the shot. Sorry "dude" to me it's more than "just talk". So go ahead and keep aiming at noses and "leading" deer blah blah blah. Sounds like a bunch of lead flying and wishful hitting rather than placing a shot in the boiler room.
To each their own "dude"
You are quoting two different people but allow me to comment in reference to the "just talk" statement I made earlier. I too am 100% confident in the shots I take and hope that everyone else is taking shots they feel to be high percentage. But being 100% or 110%(in your case NY) confident in your shot does not guarantee 100% recovery as you said "s*#t happens". So what I mean by just talk is you can sit here and say every shot you take you are 110% confident in but in fact that is just talk because I'm sure you don't have 110% recovery rate or even 100% for that matter so what happened on the ones you didn't recover? I mean you were 110% sure you were going to hit the vitals right? So what happened between the time you were so confident and losing the animal? That is thepart that can not be "talked" about. The things that go wrong ormiscalculations or the unseen branch or the questionable hit or the blood trail that went into the swamp or the lack of a blood trail.
And to clarify more I never said anythin about aiming at noses or leading or blah blah blah, but way to lump everyone together.