Shot placement question
10-21-2004, 07:44 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 147
Shot placement question
Ok, if you have a deer standing broadside 100 yards out and you are hunting with a gun other than a shotgun, what would be your preferred shot placement? I have heard to go low for the heart, mid for the lungs, or high for the shoulder blade/backbone, but I was wondering what the rest of you hunters here would say is the best (fastest kill) shot placement for an accurate hunter to make?
10-21-2004, 07:58 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Shot placement question
While all shots will work the mid line just behind the front shoulder will produce a double lung shot (very effective and ethical). It also allows some margin of error to also produce a clean/ethical harvest.
10-21-2004, 09:34 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
Posts: 11,474
RE: Shot placement question
If they are close to a place to escape, A deep draw or fence into posted land, I want the high shoulder shot. Just at the top of or just over the shoulder blad. This hit will put them opn the ground at the shot and cause them to be paralized. It may take a finishing shot but they are going nowhere. I have used this shot a lot. If they are far from cover then the heart/lung shot is the way to go. I do the shoulder shot only when I have a good rest. This isn't a big area to hit.
10-21-2004, 10:43 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: ne bama
Posts: 6,340
RE: Shot placement question
i consider myself a decent shot, but i would still go for the lung shot, i have no problems with my traking ability, to me a neck/spine shot is to risky (for me), to you guys that like it go for it.
10-22-2004, 01:09 AM
#9
Join Date: Aug 2004
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RE: Shot placement question
I prefer the shoulder blade shot myself. Hit the shoulder and cut out his transportation (can't run) Also a bullet striking a large bone such as the shoulder will cause the bullet to expand quicker delivering more energy or shock to the animal. If the bullet does come apart (jacket / core seperation) then you have pieces of bullet hitting the heart and lungs at the same time. I've never had to track a deer that was hit solid in the shouler, they all fell where they were standing.
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