shot placement
02-12-2009, 02:48 PM
#31
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: SE, Pennsylvania
Posts: 174
RE: shot placement
ORIGINAL: superstrutter
That makes no sense. You always aim for the shoulder, but you have never dropped a deer hit in the shoulder? Am I reading this wrong? Anyway, I usually aim behind the shoulder, gun or bow.
ORIGINAL: Zrabfan26
I always aim for the shoulder, unless I don't have the shot then I wait or go for the neck. I shoot a .243 and have never dropped a deer hit in the shoulder, and it wastes some meat, just a habit I guess.
I always aim for the shoulder, unless I don't have the shot then I wait or go for the neck. I shoot a .243 and have never dropped a deer hit in the shoulder, and it wastes some meat, just a habit I guess.
02-12-2009, 02:56 PM
#32
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: kentucky
Posts: 178
RE: shot placement
I hunt in the hills of ky, if I am hunting a holler and dont want the deer to run down a hill or into a thicket I shoot them in spine or the neck,depending on angle the crease between the neck and shoulder will work to. If the deer is coming strait at you with a rifle I aim at the v where the throat/neck meets the chest. A strait away shot gets a base of the neck shot. Basically I take out the central nervous system and a deer wont go anywhere. A heart lung shot is good but with that said sometimes they bolt like crazy with a heart shot.
hope this helps chris
hope this helps chris
02-12-2009, 04:30 PM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 201
RE: shot placement
My point of aim depends on where I am hunting...
If I am on private land and the deer can run a little ways after the shot, then I aim just behind the shoulder.
If I am on public land or hunting in south-eastern Kentucky where the terrain is amazingly steep (and a deer can go about three counties, stone-dead, straight downhill in about 6 seconds), then I aim for the point of the shoulder. I have never had a deer take more than a single step after being hit in that location with my 7mm Remington Magnum...but I will admit the damage (and meat loss) is tremendous.
If I am on private land and the deer can run a little ways after the shot, then I aim just behind the shoulder.
If I am on public land or hunting in south-eastern Kentucky where the terrain is amazingly steep (and a deer can go about three counties, stone-dead, straight downhill in about 6 seconds), then I aim for the point of the shoulder. I have never had a deer take more than a single step after being hit in that location with my 7mm Remington Magnum...but I will admit the damage (and meat loss) is tremendous.
02-13-2009, 04:19 AM
#34
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: grottoes,va.
Posts: 764
RE: shot placement
ORIGINAL: Teach Deer
My point of aim depends on where I am hunting...
If I am on private land and the deer can run a little ways after the shot, then I aim just behind the shoulder.
If I am on public land or hunting in south-eastern Kentucky where the terrain is amazingly steep (and a deer can go about three counties, stone-dead, straight downhill in about 6 seconds), then I aim for the point of the shoulder. I have never had a deer take more than a single step after being hit in that location with my 7mm Remington Magnum...but I will admit the damage (and meat loss) is tremendous.
My point of aim depends on where I am hunting...
If I am on private land and the deer can run a little ways after the shot, then I aim just behind the shoulder.
If I am on public land or hunting in south-eastern Kentucky where the terrain is amazingly steep (and a deer can go about three counties, stone-dead, straight downhill in about 6 seconds), then I aim for the point of the shoulder. I have never had a deer take more than a single step after being hit in that location with my 7mm Remington Magnum...but I will admit the damage (and meat loss) is tremendous.
