Should I start taking wild shots?
11-21-2010, 07:17 AM
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Fork Horn
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Should I start taking wild shots?
4This morning I sat in my stand and watched two huge spikes standing about 15 yards from me. They stayed about ten minutes. An hour later I hear my dad shoot. I waited about 45 more minutes and I looked to my right about 100yrds down in the ottom I see a huge bodied dear moving. I looked through the scope and it was probably a 140-160 b&c buck. It's really thick were he was and I could just see his antlers and some of his neck. My dad said he would've tried the neck shot. I didn't feel comfortable trying a shot like that though. Instead I just waited and hoped he would walk in the open ut never happened. If I see another ig deer like this should I try the shot? Or be patient?
11-21-2010, 08:46 AM
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Spike
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11-21-2010, 08:48 AM
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4This morning I sat in my stand and watched two huge spikes standing about 15 yards from me. They stayed about ten minutes. An hour later I hear my dad shoot. I waited about 45 more minutes and I looked to my right about 100yrds down in the ottom I see a huge bodied dear moving. I looked through the scope and it was probably a 140-160 b&c buck. It's really thick were he was and I could just see his antlers and some of his neck. My dad said he would've tried the neck shot. I didn't feel comfortable trying a shot like that though. Instead I just waited and hoped he would walk in the open ut never happened. If I see another ig deer like this should I try the shot? Or be patient?
It was a Verry Wise Choice, not to shoot.
He will be in the open soon enaugh.
A bad shot on a buck that size, and to loose him on a bad shot, will haunt you the rest of your life.
JMHO
11-21-2010, 08:48 AM
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I waited about 45 more minutes and I looked to my right about 100yrds down in the ottom I see a huge bodied dear moving. I looked through the scope and it was probably a 140-160 b&c buck. It's really thick were he was and I could just see his antlers and some of his neck. My dad said he would've tried the neck shot. I didn't feel comfortable trying a shot like that though.
Last edited by m.t.hands; 11-21-2010 at 08:50 AM.
11-21-2010, 02:04 PM
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Spike
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You owe it to that deer to make the most ethical and lethal shot possible. Never risk simply wounding a deer in the hopes that you will get it done. If you had taken the shot and merely wounded him only enough for him to make it to the next county and die,unfound by you then there are no winners. You'll be forever haunted by the " I wonder if I missed" or "I wonder if he's close and I walked past him while searching" senario.
11-21-2010, 04:07 PM
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Fork Horn
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You owe it to that deer to make the most ethical and lethal shot possible. Never risk simply wounding a deer in the hopes that you will get it done. If you had taken the shot and merely wounded him only enough for him to make it to the next county and die,unfound by you then there are no winners. You'll be forever haunted by the " I wonder if I missed" or "I wonder if he's close and I walked past him while searching" senario.