Heart or Lungs
08-13-2009, 09:42 AM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
I'll take the double lung shot any day as well, lot less room for error (bigger target). I've gotten both lungs and the top of the heart and watched deer go over 100 yards. Nothing surprises me with the will power that some of these wild animals have!!
08-13-2009, 09:43 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Burke, VA (raised in MD)
Posts: 1,096
Most people do not aim for the heart because it is a very small target. Often, an arrow piercing both double lungs with strike the heart or the plumbing that lies above it. Aimng a little low on the chest will help to compensate for the deer crouching/ducking at the sound of the shot.
08-13-2009, 11:28 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Henderson, KY
Posts: 1,760
Im not good enough to put the arrow in the heart spot in all those different situations
Dont think anybody is either, and the margin for error is much greater. Can you imagine trying to think "where is the heart" when you were going to make a shot in a not perfect shot situation...Id much rather put it behind the shoulder a little higher and let them not be able to get oxygen to their blood...
They are both obvious lethal shots, but the lungs are much larger, and easier to hit 90% of the time...
Derek
08-13-2009, 11:29 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Henderson, KY
Posts: 1,760
