Head Shots...?
01-23-2009, 06:38 AM
#32
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Head Shots...?
I agree with you also Rob for the most part. Look at the size of the killing zone (vitals- lungs, liver, heart, guts) behind the shoulder on a deer. Compare that to the size of the killing zone on the head of a deer. Huge difference! At least If a hunter misses the lungs on a deer (shoots to far back) he's got the liver and the guts that will take this deer down and kill It. You miss on a head shot, you've got a deer running around with his lower jaw dangling around. Odds favor the lung shot with more room for error.
01-23-2009, 08:19 AM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Iowa
Posts: 452
RE: Head Shots...?
The only headshot that I have gotten was when I first started hunting and failed to account for a down hill shot on a doe lying on the ground. I put it on her chest and magically her head disappeared... Amazing what a .50 will do at 50 yards to a deer skull, made nice for cleaning and a good cape, but I dont think I would ever purposefully shoot at ones head.
01-23-2009, 08:26 AM
#36
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: Head Shots...?
Why is it OK to head shoot a squirrel with a 22 but not a deer?
Just a little devil's advocate.
I'm obviously not going to take any bow head shots.
With a gun, I'm not going to say never as there are a few cases where I know taking a head shot would be done with just as much confidence as any other shot. HOWEVER, I really don't see me taking a head shot on a deer even if presented with a "best case scenario" that would allow it. I've seen a starving deer from a head shot gone arwy and don't see the need for me to put myself in a place to cause that situation.
Just a little devil's advocate.
I'm obviously not going to take any bow head shots.
With a gun, I'm not going to say never as there are a few cases where I know taking a head shot would be done with just as much confidence as any other shot. HOWEVER, I really don't see me taking a head shot on a deer even if presented with a "best case scenario" that would allow it. I've seen a starving deer from a head shot gone arwy and don't see the need for me to put myself in a place to cause that situation.
01-23-2009, 09:44 AM
#39
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: Head Shots...?
ORIGINAL: RIStrutStopper
Seriously, how much meat do you waste if you shoot a deer broadside thru the rib cage? Not much IMHO.
Seriously, how much meat do you waste if you shoot a deer broadside thru the rib cage? Not much IMHO.
