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Where do u shoot a deer?
10-28-2006, 03:23 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Too close to Chicago
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RE: Where do u shoot a deer?
Bowhunting: Lungs- broadside or quartering away. Too much drop and chance of hitting something else to aim anywhere else.
Gun hunting: Lungs- broadside, quartering away, and quartering towards. (Still the fastest drop and biggest margin for error, regardlessof weapon.)
If a shot to the lungs includes blowing through the shoulder, that's what I'll do, unless it looks like I may get a better shot if I wait.
Although a gunshot to the neckcan drop a deer by way of hydrostatic shock, they can get up again and run off if you missed the spine, and may survive if you missedthe carotid arteryand windpipe. Too much chance of a mere flesh wound for me, especially with a bow.
I voted for 'Behind the shoulder', but for new guys I'll clarify thatit means right behind the shoulder bone, and that bone does NOT come straight up from the deer's leg, like somedeer targets erroniously show.
Both of these following targets are good, but I have an old one at home (not pictured)that I had to modify because it showed the shoulder bone in a vertical position in line withthe point of the deer's leg. That old target might have trained some new bowhunters to aim too far back in fear of hitting a shoulder bone that wasn't there. Notice that the point of the deer's leg is halfway back in the available lung area on a broadside shot.
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Gun hunting: Lungs- broadside, quartering away, and quartering towards. (Still the fastest drop and biggest margin for error, regardlessof weapon.)
If a shot to the lungs includes blowing through the shoulder, that's what I'll do, unless it looks like I may get a better shot if I wait.
Although a gunshot to the neckcan drop a deer by way of hydrostatic shock, they can get up again and run off if you missed the spine, and may survive if you missedthe carotid arteryand windpipe. Too much chance of a mere flesh wound for me, especially with a bow.
I voted for 'Behind the shoulder', but for new guys I'll clarify thatit means right behind the shoulder bone, and that bone does NOT come straight up from the deer's leg, like somedeer targets erroniously show.
Both of these following targets are good, but I have an old one at home (not pictured)that I had to modify because it showed the shoulder bone in a vertical position in line withthe point of the deer's leg. That old target might have trained some new bowhunters to aim too far back in fear of hitting a shoulder bone that wasn't there. Notice that the point of the deer's leg is halfway back in the available lung area on a broadside shot.
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