Head Shots....Yes or No?
10-20-2008 | 08:16 AM
#24
Giant Nontypical
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
i mean you wont wound it so you dont hafta worry about that, and if you miss then well you miss who cares!
10-20-2008 | 08:31 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
ORIGINAL: RenaissanceBiker
Suiciders and suffering dog owners usually don't miss becausethey are atclose range. At 100 yards I would rather try to hit a basketball than a softball.
Suiciders and suffering dog owners usually don't miss becausethey are atclose range. At 100 yards I would rather try to hit a basketball than a softball.
So your comfort zone is inches, dont preach your abilities to others, my comfort zone would be 75 yds on head shots, 250 yds on vitals. Others here have no problemkilling at 800 yds, because I cant do that, gives me no right to tell them thats unethcial, stay within your comfort zone, dont preach it to others, please.
I dont know where you all hunt but it seems a lot of you have seen a lot of deer with jaws blown off, in 35 years I have never seen one, not a single one, but some of you have seen up to five. Jeeeeez thats like seeing bigfoot 5 times.
10-20-2008 | 10:19 AM
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RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
I have never taken a head shot and probably never will. I have taken several with a neck shot, but only at close range. I had a friend of mine take a head shot at a large spike several years ago and shot one of the spikes rightoff. Funny thing is, the deer just ran about 10 yards and stopped. He didn't know what just happened. The second shot was in the neck and he went down for good. An inch lower on the first shot and we would have probably had an unrecoverable wounded deer. A head shot is just too risky in my book, unless the deer was at point blank range. Even then, I'm still not aiming for the head. I'll take a close neck shot though, but I'm talking real close.
10-20-2008 | 10:20 AM
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RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
Not true about won't wound if shot in the head. There is always a chance for wounding. There is a chance to wound a deer if shooting at the rib cage. I prefer the largest possible target, which is the rib cage. I have never taken a head shot, but may someday be tempted to try it on a doe. I know a couple of guys that have accidently shot deer in the head with a bow. The deer in question didn't die quickly, but that's with a bow and arrow.
To the comment about being a polo shirt type hunter sitting in a heated blind - guess you've never tried it. I have a buddy with a couple of "condos". Once in there, he trades boots for slippers. Pretty nice being kicked back warm and relaxed not worrying about spooking deer. You can eat, drink, talk, play cards, etc. Pretty easy to stay all day. We use the condos when trading the bow for the gun. Think about it next time your ass is hurting and freezing while getting blown around in up in a tree.
Bob R.
To the comment about being a polo shirt type hunter sitting in a heated blind - guess you've never tried it. I have a buddy with a couple of "condos". Once in there, he trades boots for slippers. Pretty nice being kicked back warm and relaxed not worrying about spooking deer. You can eat, drink, talk, play cards, etc. Pretty easy to stay all day. We use the condos when trading the bow for the gun. Think about it next time your ass is hurting and freezing while getting blown around in up in a tree.
Bob R.
10-20-2008 | 11:22 AM
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RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
never heard of a suicider double lunging them selves.
whats the least painful ? whats the faster death ? whats more ethical then ?
never heard of a suicider double lunging them selves.
whats the least painful ? whats the faster death ? whats more ethical then ?
10-20-2008 | 01:45 PM
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RE: Head Shots....Yes or No?
ORIGINAL: Canned Heat
By exclusively, if you know what that means: as in the only shots they'll take. How that's vague, I don't know. I know of yahoos who think it's really neat to see what kind of carnage they can cause to the noggin of a whitetail....like they're in it for the killing and the graphic outcomeof it all more than they are for the meat, the hunt, or the health of the herd. Trust me, I still shoot competitively on occasion and could most times take out whatever, whenever within a given known range. Why would I risk a lost and wounded animal to a marginal shot like that when it's almost always uncalled for? Telling us you can dial in an easier, safer, andbetter shot on 72 square inches of deer head versus some 600+ square inches of vital region is a joke. So by your comment of: "4 deer per square mile...better make it count", you'll sit all morning for your one deer a day deer and when he swings by, all you're thinking about is a brain shot...because you might not see another deer? And when you do pull the trigger, is the deer even still at that point? Now I know where all the wounded jawless deer are coming from.
And for the record, I deer camp in Northern WI in an outside open-air tent with 7 other people. We butcher our own deer, crap in the woods, and take turns doing the chores that are necessary to keep the place from going to hell. We take showers from cooled boiling water before it freezes, and have on occasion booted wolves, badgers, and bears from our site. No 4 wheelers, no tv's, no heat, no nothing.
Learn to spell too, before you start piping up on how ignorant other people are....dumba$$.
ORIGINAL: skybuster20ga
thats def. comiong from someoone who is pretty ignorant themselves there bowman. and canned heat, you said exclusivley. thats pretty vague. i think the guys, myself included who arent afriad of popin a deer in the melon are saying if thats the shot they have, they take it. i do. but if i have a decent shoulder shot ide rather have it. up here in maine buddy you boys would go home empty handed w/ high and mighty opinions like that. you must be some of those polo shirt hunters w/ heated blinds and feeders and food plots i bet! i voted for #4 by the way
thats def. comiong from someoone who is pretty ignorant themselves there bowman. and canned heat, you said exclusivley. thats pretty vague. i think the guys, myself included who arent afriad of popin a deer in the melon are saying if thats the shot they have, they take it. i do. but if i have a decent shoulder shot ide rather have it. up here in maine buddy you boys would go home empty handed w/ high and mighty opinions like that. you must be some of those polo shirt hunters w/ heated blinds and feeders and food plots i bet! i voted for #4 by the way
And for the record, I deer camp in Northern WI in an outside open-air tent with 7 other people. We butcher our own deer, crap in the woods, and take turns doing the chores that are necessary to keep the place from going to hell. We take showers from cooled boiling water before it freezes, and have on occasion booted wolves, badgers, and bears from our site. No 4 wheelers, no tv's, no heat, no nothing.
Learn to spell too, before you start piping up on how ignorant other people are....dumba$$.
