shooting bedded deer
#21
RE: shooting bedded deer
The point of hunting is to pit yourself and your skills against the animal you are pursuing.If you are able to take the animal in it's bed it means you have succeeded in a manner that you likely should be pleased or proud of!
I really don't understand why anyone would be bothered by taking an animal in it's bed!
I really don't understand why anyone would be bothered by taking an animal in it's bed!
#22
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: East Texas
Posts: 225
RE: shooting bedded deer
Thanks for the replys guys. After reading your responses and reasons, I think I would do it. DEFINATELY do it if it was a wallhanger. Of course, we don't get many of those around here either.
#23
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maryland
Posts: 26
RE: shooting bedded deer
i have shot a bedded deer, i was walking out of my stand in the rain, and happened to see 3 just laying down looking at me. they gave me the time to get prone and take a good shot from 10 yards away with my 30-06. in my eyes it was the most humane kill i've ever had, the deer simply laid its head down. Nothing wrong with it.
#28
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Forksville Pa
Posts: 57
RE: shooting bedded deer
Be forewarned. Shooting a bedded deer with a bow can be a little tricky. When a deer is bedded, the ribcage lays back at an angle and could cause a broadhead to deflect off the rib and follow along the inside of the skin and the ribcage no matter what kind of a point you have on your broadhead.
I lost a dandy buck that way a few years back and it makes me sick everytimeI think about it.
I lost a dandy buck that way a few years back and it makes me sick everytimeI think about it.