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Old 02-02-2002 | 08:26 PM
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55#recurve
 
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Default RE: Shot placement on animal A - a detailed look

I am still not done reading, but I wanted to post since this is sort of a little bit of my topic. I know the anatomy isn't drawn in right, but you have to remember I used stealthy's anatomy post's and just sort of winged it, if I was more well studied on the angle it would have been a better drawing. But to get to the point, I hear comments like I wouldn't take this shot, I would take a shot broadside or quartering away so I know that that animal will die quickly and nope hoping it will die quickly. To this I have just one thing to say, no matter what angle you are shooting an animal at, you are always hoping and never knowing how far away it will run and how fast it will pile up. I don't care if it's quartering, broadside or whatsoever, you aren't gauranteed that that the animal will pile up in 40 yards and leave a very good blood trail. The only reason I state this is because one thread I read a while back, had a post with a look at what a shot that someone had taken on a deer, It looked like a very lethal shot, but after hearing the story, he had to listen for the crow's to eventually find the animal. The question was a little while back, why not take a liver shot? This is my answer, while alot of people sound like they would take the shot behind the shoulder, I would opt for the shot placment where I put the 2 green dot's, in front of the shoulder. Why? The reason why I would take this shot, is because I have no doubt in my mind, that if I was attempting any shot at this angle in the first place, I had better be well practiced, which I would be, for me to be confident that this would be a lethal shot, and it would be in my mind, Again "bowhunter's ETHIC's". You have to pracitice and be confident in yourself, or you should just be thinking about taking a long walk in the wood's, while armed with a bow. High % shot's Low % shot's or No% shot's who made the ethic's up anyways?
Good shooting.
Dylan

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