Shot placement?
11-30-2003 | 08:41 AM
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RE: Shot placement?
I try to aim right behind the shoulder. But this past Wednesday, my buck was facing me and I had to aim right inside of his left shoulder. Ended up getting a heart shot, ran 15 yards and dropped, right in the middle of a thicket. I was shooting a .30-06 with 180 grain ballistic tips.
11-30-2003 | 09:25 AM
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RE: Shot placement?
I aim for the heart. 
If its broadside i go about 3-4 inches up in the crease behind the shoulder, if the deer is alert, i aim lower. If there quartering away, i put my pin on where i want the arrow to come out of, or draw an imaginary line through the kill zone of the animal.
If its broadside i go about 3-4 inches up in the crease behind the shoulder, if the deer is alert, i aim lower. If there quartering away, i put my pin on where i want the arrow to come out of, or draw an imaginary line through the kill zone of the animal.
11-30-2003 | 09:50 AM
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RE: Shot placement?
it depends.. if the deer is standing with his side facing me then i put it right in the heart just behind the shoulder... if he is facing a bit angled towards me i aim just ahead of the shoulder which takes out the heart and a lung.. if his backside is towards me on an angle i first try to get him to turn to me but if that doesn' t work and i really really want him then i look at how his belly creases and aim for the part just above the widest part which will take out both lungs but i don' t like to take that shot because it' s much too risky
11-30-2003 | 11:49 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Shot placement?
Right behind the shoulder for broadside shots. Warrior if you aim right behind the shoulder on a quatering away shot you can sometimes miss the vitals or only hit one lung. This is not saying that you cannot be succesful with that shot I' m just saying most people like to aim so their exit is right behind or throught the opposite shoulder.
11-30-2003 | 05:19 PM
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RE: Shot placement?
when a deer is standing broadside there is a " lil elbow" type lookin thing about 2/3 down the deer behind the shoulder. i am right behind it. it usually ends with a double lung and sometimes heart.
12-01-2003 | 09:07 PM
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RE: Shot placement?
Shot placement for me is the same with my rifle and bow. I always like broadside because it is easy to aim behind the front shoulder, but quartering away is always a superb way to take a shot. Last week I shot a deer quartering away. Ran 10 yards and dropped. I believe I got both lungs.