head shot/ethics
10-29-2009, 10:25 AM
#111
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Warroad MN
Posts: 20
i'll admit i'm new here, but reading some of the "expert opinion" on this thread is hilarious. I cannot believe people are actually saying that it is impossible to wound a deer with a head or neck shot! i can't be the only person that's seen a moving jawless deer. makes me think a lot of people on here have never shot a deer, head, neck, or otherwise!
10-29-2009, 11:21 AM
#112
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 2,414
Not always so. Ever seen a deer with its bottom jaw blown off? I have. She was getting pretty thin too.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong to shoot a deer in the head, but i am saying anyone can miss and wound a deer no matter where you were aiming.
10-29-2009, 11:23 AM
#113
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 2,414
i'll admit i'm new here, but reading some of the "expert opinion" on this thread is hilarious. I cannot believe people are actually saying that it is impossible to wound a deer with a head or neck shot! i can't be the only person that's seen a moving jawless deer. makes me think a lot of people on here have never shot a deer, head, neck, or otherwise!
10-29-2009, 12:36 PM
#114
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: NY
Posts: 366
shoot em in the head or neck. you either hit em or miss em no wounded deer. no meat wasted either.
There could be plenty of error in a head or neck shot.
10-29-2009, 03:08 PM
#118
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,304
10-29-2009, 07:34 PM
#119
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southern New Hampshire
Posts: 190
You guys don't have to believe this if you don't want to but I have even taken a neck shot with my bow. ONE TIME! I took it only because I had hit the deer where you are suppose too and the deer was suffering lying on the ground and he was crippled so I didn't have another shot at the vitals. I approached the deer after the first shot and I was only 10 yards from it and needed to finish what I had started and do it quickly. So in the heat on the moment I decided that shooting him in the neck was my only alturnitive so I did. He died almost instantly within 10 seconds. Now would I have taken this shot with a bow under different circumstances at a further distance, I believe I would but no further than 30 yards. Have I ever taken one before, NO! Why? because it's just not the first thing I think of when taking a shot with a bow.
Now with a rifle I have taken them many of times and so far they have put the animal down and they were dead before they hit the ground. Would I take one off hand? Not on your life! Keep in mind that I shoot every week in a Schuetzen league at my gun club. For those of you that don't know what that is, thats 200 yards off hand with a 22 LR and a centerfire SS 25-06, lead only.
Only with a firm rest would I even consider it ( I hunt with shooting sticks) and I will only do it if it is at 100 yards or less and if the animal is ready to high jack it out of there and it's the only shot I have because of obstructions in the way of the vitals. I like the fact that there is less loss of meat with a neck shot and from what I have experienced they exspire a lot faster than with a vital area shot. Though I have had some die pretty quick when hit in the vitals, usually within 30 seconds but some have taken longer. I hate that!
Now with a rifle I have taken them many of times and so far they have put the animal down and they were dead before they hit the ground. Would I take one off hand? Not on your life! Keep in mind that I shoot every week in a Schuetzen league at my gun club. For those of you that don't know what that is, thats 200 yards off hand with a 22 LR and a centerfire SS 25-06, lead only.
Only with a firm rest would I even consider it ( I hunt with shooting sticks) and I will only do it if it is at 100 yards or less and if the animal is ready to high jack it out of there and it's the only shot I have because of obstructions in the way of the vitals. I like the fact that there is less loss of meat with a neck shot and from what I have experienced they exspire a lot faster than with a vital area shot. Though I have had some die pretty quick when hit in the vitals, usually within 30 seconds but some have taken longer. I hate that!
10-30-2009, 08:08 AM
#120
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 2,414
I can't believe you missed it in the by-laws
It's right under " all guns must shoot under 1/4 MOA" and right above " All bows must shoot over 320FPS"
Geez man. I know youre new but let's get up to speed here will ya!!!
