Deer is quartering away - aim for heart or both lungs?
 

I have personally never shot a deer in the heart (with my bow). I've always chose to take both lungs for fear of missing the heart and winding up with only one lung. I suppose on a broadside shot the room for error is less than a quartering away shot, but the heart shot is obviously possible.

Am I thinking this wrong? Would you wind up with both lungs on a quartering away heart shot?

From what I've seen, a heart shot deer can go just as far as a lung shot, so I've always taken both lungs to minimize error. What's your preference and why?

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I will go for both lungs every time because it isa bigger target.

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I never aim for the heart either...........Why would you chosefist size target when you can shoot a little higher and get both lungs. The deer will go farther on a heart shot that it will on a double lung anyway!!!

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I shot a doe in the heart this year and she walked about 10 feet and dropped over dead. I usually dont aim for the heart unless i am on the ground, closer then 20 yards and the deer is perfectly broadside. If i am in a treestand then it is both lungs.

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Just bust him about the 4th rib back and it will come out by his front leg. Watch him fall.

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He is right on,but he forgot the most important point. After they fall you get to eat backstraps!!!!!

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I aim for the heart on a close up, slam dunk, broadside shot. When I say close up I mean 15 or less. Anything beyond that I'm aiming for a center of mass hit. That said, sometimes you because of the nervousness of the deer and all that, I aim for the heart knowing the bugger is going to drop. On a quartering away shot it just depends on the angle and how severe it is. I just usually aim on a quartering away shot to hit the far shoulder or where the back of theleg meets the chest. Gives me the biggest margin of error. I should get both lungs or liver lungs or liver both lungs or some combination there of. If I hit the heart on a quartering shot I made a bad shot.....well I didn't hit what I intended to. Here's a 22 yard shot that hit where I aimed.:D I've had several like this, but this one is cool.

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Here's another one, quartering away shot thru the heart.

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I shoot for lungs.

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Quartering away.... hmmm depends on distance. If you aim a bit low on the lungs but high on the heart at 25 yards and less you should be perfect. Any distances beyond that I shoot for lungs. But when its broadside I generally try to hit heart and lungs.