Shoot or pass?
01-09-2009, 11:10 PM
#44
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Western Kentucky
Posts: 328
RE: Shoot or pass?
ANY shot I can take I'm taking...You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation. You also have to look at my current prediciment that I have been dealt. I don't have the luxury of hunting private land, where I can predictively pattern deer, I have been forced out of all my areas by people with more dollars than cents. My primary hunting spots consists of public land, rather large tracts at that (15,000) acres of unbroken forests. No fields, all out big woods with tremendous hunting pressure. So to answer your question, I'm taking the shot, any shot. Sorry if you don't concur with me boss.
01-10-2009, 08:07 AM
#45
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Shoot or pass?
ORIGINAL: lnen#1
Hypothetically speaking it's during the rut, and your bowhunting,your presented with a quarting to 200" ginormous buck that closely resembles bullwinkle. Now knowing that a quarting to is a "low percentage shot" would you take it? I most certainly am going to let one fly. What would you do?
Hypothetically speaking it's during the rut, and your bowhunting,your presented with a quarting to 200" ginormous buck that closely resembles bullwinkle. Now knowing that a quarting to is a "low percentage shot" would you take it? I most certainly am going to let one fly. What would you do?
01-10-2009, 08:23 AM
#46
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Shoot or pass?
ORIGINAL: lnen#1
ANY shot I can take I'm taking...You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation. You also have to look at my current prediciment that I have been dealt. I don't have the luxury of hunting private land, where I can predictively pattern deer, I have been forced out of all my areas by people with more dollars than cents. My primary hunting spots consists of public land, rather large tracts at that (15,000) acres of unbroken forests. No fields, all out big woods with tremendous hunting pressure. So to answer your question, I'm taking the shot, any shot. Sorry if you don't concur with me boss.
ANY shot I can take I'm taking...You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation. You also have to look at my current prediciment that I have been dealt. I don't have the luxury of hunting private land, where I can predictively pattern deer, I have been forced out of all my areas by people with more dollars than cents. My primary hunting spots consists of public land, rather large tracts at that (15,000) acres of unbroken forests. No fields, all out big woods with tremendous hunting pressure. So to answer your question, I'm taking the shot, any shot. Sorry if you don't concur with me boss.
01-10-2009, 08:44 AM
#47
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 11,472
RE: Shoot or pass?
You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation.
01-10-2009, 08:45 AM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Shoot or pass?
ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
I hunt the same situation as you do, I hunt public land and can tell you I experience the same thing with the bucks. Most of the time, I will only see a buck ONCE, and then they are gone. I have to be ready at all times to takea good shot because it will probably be my only chance. That is why I personally choose to wait for a good shot, because if I lost a good animal I worked so hard to shoot because I chose a bad shot I would be sick. I had two shot opportunities at mature bucks this year on public land and chose not to shoot because the shots were poor.I could have just launched an arrow, but that is not me.
ORIGINAL: lnen#1
ANY shot I can take I'm taking...You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation. You also have to look at my current prediciment that I have been dealt. I don't have the luxury of hunting private land, where I can predictively pattern deer, I have been forced out of all my areas by people with more dollars than cents. My primary hunting spots consists of public land, rather large tracts at that (15,000) acres of unbroken forests. No fields, all out big woods with tremendous hunting pressure. So to answer your question, I'm taking the shot, any shot. Sorry if you don't concur with me boss.
ANY shot I can take I'm taking...You know as well as I do pecking on this keyboard is one thing when determining what shot you will or won't take; while on stand that deer of a lifetime presents itself is a whole different situation. You also have to look at my current prediciment that I have been dealt. I don't have the luxury of hunting private land, where I can predictively pattern deer, I have been forced out of all my areas by people with more dollars than cents. My primary hunting spots consists of public land, rather large tracts at that (15,000) acres of unbroken forests. No fields, all out big woods with tremendous hunting pressure. So to answer your question, I'm taking the shot, any shot. Sorry if you don't concur with me boss.
01-10-2009, 09:13 AM
#49
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: TN
Posts: 2,089
RE: Shoot or pass?
ORIGINAL: Bullet Hole Bailey
I disagree with liver shots being a pain in the arse to track. My first deer ever went down and was dead in 5 seconds and 40 yards after I sent an arrow through his liver...I didnt mean to shoot it there but I had some major buck fever with it being the first deer id ever drawn on...
ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
PPPPPPPASSS.
Anyone that has ever hit a liver shot deer knows it can be a HELL track job. It is not worth it.
Halfrack--I will beg you to reconsider your thoughts about neck shooting deer at "close" range of 15 yards. 15 yards is NOT close range when bowhunting deer. Trust me.
PPPPPPPASSS.
Anyone that has ever hit a liver shot deer knows it can be a HELL track job. It is not worth it.
Halfrack--I will beg you to reconsider your thoughts about neck shooting deer at "close" range of 15 yards. 15 yards is NOT close range when bowhunting deer. Trust me.
Now if a deer's vitals were behind a tree and the only shot that I had was a liver shot. I would pass in a heart beat.
01-10-2009, 10:59 AM
#50
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Shoot or pass?
I will say this the last time, many of you are lucky your liver shot deer expired within 50 yards. If you accidentally bump a liver shot deer just once, it could run hundreds of yards in no time flat and leave very little to follow. God forbid you are hunting in a really thick area which would make tracking very difficult. I have liver shot bucks before, some expiring within sight, others, hundreds of yards later. Not something to chance if you can help it.