ORIGINAL: eman1200
"Eeeeks! This was supposed to be in attempt to raise awareness that we should be educating new bowhunters and probably even "old" bowhunters on proper shot placement......."
valid topic of discussion for any level of hunter. so to your comment...
What if the animal is turned and facing downhill on a grade...............and severely quartered away
I say......don't shoot. there's your shot placement.
That's what I'm talking about! I want there to be a "shot placement 101" that new or inexperienced bowhunters can refer to. Some of this stuff that may seem like no-brainers to you guys might seem like good ideas to a newbie.
I'm a fairly inexperienced bowhunter as previously disclosed and though I've taken a nubby, a 7, and a 10 with my bow, I consider myself to know very little. This year I lost a doe on a 20ft up and 9yd out moderately quartering away shot. I felt horrible because in my inexperienced mind I was putting the arrowwhere it needed to be (behind the shoulder so that it would exit low in the brisket). After further discussion with board members, it turns out that I should've aimed a whole foot further back. This lost deer was due to me thinking I knew what I was doing when in fact I didn't know jack about that particular shot situation.
I just want a resource, a reference, a rough guideline or whatever you wanna call it for new or inexperienced hunters like myself so we'll have less of those "uh oh" posts.