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Old 02-23-2004 | 02:40 PM
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davidmil
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Default RE: Ethical Shot Placement

That might be the article I read about that time. It was somewhere back in the early 80s or late 70s anyway. The question was ask by a guy that said he'd been near deer on several occasions but only had the ham visible. The responder told him it was a good shot and would dispatch a deer in a hurry. Well, about 2 days later this little buck walked out onto a peanut field to my right. He came out of a snarl of South Georgia brush you couldn't see 10 feet in. There were no trees around. I had fastened a ladder stand leaning agains a half dozen small saplings I'd tied together. As I tried to turn the saplings all rustled and the deer spooked back into the brush. 10 minutes later he popped out on my other side. Again as I turned the trees rustled and he went on high alert. He turned and stuck his front end back in the thicket. I figured he was going for good. I aimed dead center in the hams and shot. He whirled back into the peanut field with the arrow sticking out both sides. He made to jumps and went into a walk all hunched up. As his head hit the woods on the other side about 250 yards away he collapsed. It killed him, but I decided then and there it wasn't as deadly a shot as they expressed. I took it once and it worked. I won't ever do it again.
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