Head Shots...?
01-22-2009, 10:22 AM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NE & Western Wisconsin
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Head Shots...?
Some idiot was bragging at the bar how he was out gun hunting and shot a doe in the head.
I interupt his story and basically telling him he's an idiot taking an unethical shot.
He argues he was saving meat.
Gun or bow, do you think head shots are appropriate?
I interupt his story and basically telling him he's an idiot taking an unethical shot.
He argues he was saving meat.
Gun or bow, do you think head shots are appropriate?
01-22-2009, 10:47 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 1,559
RE: Head Shots...?
With a bow, this is a no brainer. With that being said, I will say that I have not and will not ever take a head shot with any weapon. However, it is hard to argue with the results of a well placed head shot with a firearm. I know many will jump on this and said that a slight miss will/can/could result in a crippled animial, but that can be said be said for a lot of shot placements. For instance, a quarting away shot on a deer is by far my favorite, but if the deer is facing your left and you shoot just a few inches right, you are deal with a liver shot at best, or a gut shot. Neither or ideal and both can result in a lost animial. Again, not a shot I would take, but I can see where some firearm hunters (in the right situation) would and could pull it off.
01-22-2009, 11:38 AM
#4
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Polk County FL.
Posts: 769
RE: Head Shots...?
With a bow NEVER!!!!!!!!
Although with a gun is better than with a bow but still there is no reason to do that. If you have a shot at his head you probobly have a shot at his vitals in one form or another.
Although with a gun is better than with a bow but still there is no reason to do that. If you have a shot at his head you probobly have a shot at his vitals in one form or another.
01-22-2009, 12:33 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
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RE: Head Shots...?
I said some situations because I would take a head shot with a firearm for a finishing shot on a deer that was down but not dead yet or had the vitals covered and the was the only shot I had. It would be a last resort type thing, but I've learned to never say never.
01-22-2009, 12:38 PM
#9
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: FL. Panhandle
Posts: 62
RE: Head Shots...?
Head shot, with my .270, inside 100 yards, with a GOOD rest. I could do it..... but why?
I know guys that shoot in the neck, thats a little bigger target.
With a Bow?
Never, I suck way to bad to try that.
I know guys that shoot in the neck, thats a little bigger target.
With a Bow?
Never, I suck way to bad to try that.
01-22-2009, 01:41 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Head Shots...?
I would not take that shot with my bow. And we are talking about normal hunting conditions and not survival conditions. If it werea survival situationand I had a 12 gauge I would blow a deer's head off to eat.