Double Lung or Heart?
 

This is not a thread about which is easier to obtain. There's an obviousanswer to that depending on the angle of the deer. But, If you could be guaranteed of one or the other, which would it be? And if you care to... why?

RE: Double Lung or Heart?
 

A pass through shot with either, I'll find the deer.

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I'LL TAKE BOTH HOWS THAT????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!;);)

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If I were guaranteed? I'd take the heart shot in a minute because it will not go as far. Both are assured kills.

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I'll take the double lung shot, easier to hit- bigger target! Heart shot Is a quicker recovery most of the time but a double lung shot Is twice the size almost.

Either one Is a great shot regardless.

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My second bow kill ever was a big doe from 3 yards in front of me. I nicked the spine, took out one lung and also hit the heart. She dropped in her tracks and expired in just under 60 seconds.
So if you had an option for spine, heart, and one lung I would have voted that way!

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I am not sure both are the most lethal but in my experience is the true double lung deer only go about 40 yards and pile up! A heart shot Ive had them go up to 150-200 yards.;)Anyways i prefer a double lung

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If I could shoot the perfect arrow every time it would take out the top of the heart because that shot also takes out both lungs. In fact, it difficult to get the heart without connecting with the lungs.



That said, all archers should be concentrating on the lungs, bigger target with more room for error. The heart alone leaves for bad results if one is too far forward. IMO.

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I agree 100%!

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I'l shoot at the heart (especially from an elevatedstand), but if I hit lungs, I'm still happy.

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LOL Bob, I know you know but for others, from an elevated stand, you cannot get the heart without getting the lungs unless one is extremely low on the shot.

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Good point.
I guess I was thinking more of my case inmy generalization.
Also, personally, I don't get into situations where I would take an extreme angled down shot. Not to mention us trad guys have a tendancy to shoot a bit high in live game situations from elevated stands even if you have practived the shot 100's of times on targets the day before. :D

RE: Double Lung or Heart?
 

double lung easier to hit i would say but i would take a heart shot any day of the week
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Double lung. I used to go for the heart...but after I screwed up a couple times (shoulder) I aim a couple inches back now. Double lung broadside = easy pass thru = great blood trail = dead deer before they get out of sight.


A large bodied 8pt I shot a few years ago...I went for the heart. Got the 1 lung...the heart...and a low exit from the other side. Great blood...but he rain for a ½ mile. The broadhead nearly sliced the heart in half...but he still ran forever.

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If you are saying either shot is a sure thing, I would say the heart. Since NO shot is a sure thing, I try for the double lung.

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Punch the center of the lungs, awesome blood!

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I aim for a one foot square behind the front shoulder, If I get it in the square it should be a lethal shot in a short time. I don't like to pick a target that is the size of my fist, that causes me to flinch more.

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I'll take both lungs. There is a chance I'll sever some major arteries from the top of the heart with that shot anyway.

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Couldn't have said it better!! Any time I have verified a heart shot on a deer that I've taken, the distance traveled is "always" less than any with a double lung shot. Both are fatal, but I'm choosing a heart shot because of the lesser distance traveled by the deer which in my opinion gives me a bit of an advantage in recovering sooner.

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Exactly...way more of an area to hit than the heart...both are deadly but ill take the lungs first

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I've killed plety with double lung shots and they work great. But I shot a doe from the ground a couple years ago. It was a perfect heart shot. She had the muzzy X perfectly placed on her heart when I field dressed her. The blood trail was one a blind man could have followed. I could see blood on the ground 20 feet in front of me. She didn't go far either maybe 30 yards from the place I shot her.

If I were garanteed of a heart shot each and every time. That would be my choice. And if you miss the heart you still have the lungs. Of course that also why the slight quartered away shot is such a good, gets you away from that shoulder. I also wait for the deer to step forward with the legeffectivly gettingthe leg and shoulder as farforward as possible.

Simply put lack ofoxygen to the brainisthe waythey die. so heart or lungs and they are done.

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Bow hunters should shoot for the lungs, it's a bigger target that has less bone infrastructure to protect them, gun hunters should shoot for the heart as the bone protection does not matter, plus, bullets carry hydrostatic shock and that liquifies flesh, arrows don't, they just cause massive blood loss which results in suffocation most of the time.

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If you get the heart you've got the double lung so it's an easy choice (unless you're taking some crazy-ass weird angled shot); Heart.

In either case there's a dead critter at the end of the bloodtrail so it doesn't really matter but the heart shot critter will leave a shorter trail.

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I don't know much about this because I have not killed very many, but the heart seems to do the trick. It is vital to its survival and if I could guarantee that shot I would not have a very long walk.

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I would take either one. when im aiming on a deer with the bow, im puttin the pin right behind the shoulder!!

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Me too. I will take the double lunger.

RE: Double Lung or Heart?
 

both should be a choice

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It would take some fancy shooting to hit the heart without getting at least one lung too.

I aim for the heart.

I've had heart shot deer drop in 30 yards and had one go just over 100 yards. The closer the hit is to the front/top (where the aorta and vena cava are) of the heart the faster the deer will drop.Anyhow, every deer that I've hit in the heart has left agreat blood trail (knock on wood), so that's why I prefer it.

Aim small, miss small. ;)
(really knocking on wood now)