shot placement questions
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 494
RE: shot placement questions
ORIGINAL: Indiana Whitetail
I shot an 9-point two years ago with an accidental neck shot he was about 30 yards out and at a trot after a doe, well he stopped a split second before i pulled the trigger and i was leading him, BOOM down he goes, stopped him in his tracks but that was with a 12 gauge, it was nice not having to track him but i would never intentionally take that shot. 99% of the time i wont shoot at a moving target but he wouldnt stop for my grunts and whistles.
I shot an 9-point two years ago with an accidental neck shot he was about 30 yards out and at a trot after a doe, well he stopped a split second before i pulled the trigger and i was leading him, BOOM down he goes, stopped him in his tracks but that was with a 12 gauge, it was nice not having to track him but i would never intentionally take that shot. 99% of the time i wont shoot at a moving target but he wouldnt stop for my grunts and whistles.
But.....
That's why we aim for the boiler room as close to the shoulder as possible. There is alot of room for error: a little too high you still hit the lungs and maybe the spine over the back. Too low, you either hit the lungs or miss. A little to far back, you will hit the liver (or if it's a bad shot, a gut shot, which NOBODY wants!) too far forward, you have a lot of good "misses" - fatal and cripling shoulder shot and maybe the neck shot.
My lessons learned: I haven't taken an off hand shot since even though I practice with it a lot since then. Always aim for the middle of the boiler room (every shot since then has been a clean double-lunger).