| WKP Todd |
09-11-2009 10:38 AM |
One other point that needs to be brought up. Not everyone is hunting animals that have the body size and mass of the deer that we are hunting. Most of our big bucks go between 250-300+ pounds on the hoof. When you get an animal with a body that big, the shoulder and upper back areas are so heavy with muscle, bone, and cartelidge - your talking a different animal than blasting through the back of normal sized deer on close shots, etc...
This is why I aim low, and don't like having my stands high. Give me a 10 yard, hard quartering away shot to open up those vitals and give me as large of target as possible. You hit em high or forward, you are asking for trouble regardless of the head. Give me 12-15" of penetration with a big cutting mechanical, on an angle from back to front, and I'll jam it into the opposite side shoulder everytime! Both lungs, possibly the liver, and possibly the heart. That kills em dead fast!
Most of the pass-through "heart or double lung" shots I've had have gone farther than the above shot. It has more to do with tissue (vein, artery, major organ, and muscle) damage than anything I believe. On an angle, you have more cutting distance (more damage), than on a straight double lung pass-through! It's simple physics. Lenth x Width x Depth = cutting area!
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