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Where do you shoot your deer???
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I have taken a lot of moose with neck shots, just behind the ear but deer are smaller and more apt to move fast so I tend to avoid head shots unless very close. I have shot one doe right up the nose as she looked at me but that was with a crop destruction permit using the 6BR and 105A-max with an 8 twist barrel.
When hunting with a hand gun or ML I try to never hit the shoulder bone, it destroys a lot of good meat. My favorite shot is the deer broadside, head down eating with the front leg on my side in front. I try to sneak the shot in just behind that front leg, hitting the lungs and heart for a fast kill.
Shooting big bones makes a heck of a mess.
Where do you prefer to hit them??
When hunting with a hand gun or ML I try to never hit the shoulder bone, it destroys a lot of good meat. My favorite shot is the deer broadside, head down eating with the front leg on my side in front. I try to sneak the shot in just behind that front leg, hitting the lungs and heart for a fast kill.
Shooting big bones makes a heck of a mess.
Where do you prefer to hit them??
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But the shot you describe is what I've always heard as the optimal shot.
And the shot described in the hunters' ed course I had to take last year for an out of state license.[;)]
Merc
Broadside to quartering away is the only good shot for a bowhunter. I would take a neck shot with my slug gun.
I prefer to shoot my deer in the woods. They get really mad when I do it in the zoo!
Merc
Same here, and the screams and crying throw off my concentration at the petting zoo.
When most of your deer hunting involves 53gr bullets, you've got to really pick your shots, and I'm not about to take a chance at an animal running off and suffering due to a bad hit. And yes, bullets of that weight are perfectly capable of dropping a deer.[;)]
I've even used the ole Texas Heart Shot (straight up the *)[}:)] it works like a charm.
I have shot them in the neck, the head, in the chest straight on, up the *, through the shoulder, through the vitals, etc etc etc. I'll take anything but a gut shot, as long as I know it will work.
Coming at me at an angle, I usually lung shoot, well forward. I try to avoid the possibility of gut shots.
I shot one small Buck that had to be the toughest Deer on the planet. Iirst shot I laid right on his heart while he was feeding, he took off running and ran up a steep ridge maybe 60 yards, he stopped to blow at the top and I took the second shot, same spot. He took off again and ran another 30 over the ridge where I couldn't see him fall. When I gutted him his heart ran through my fingers, it was that loose, pretty much the consistency of thin pudding. After I skinned him I saw the two holes on the back of the pelt, both through the heart and maybe an inch and a half apart.
I've never had a neck shot run off, I can't say the same for a lung or heart shot.
W.D.
Don't have wear camo and scent blocker either but i find it makes it more realistic.
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This year I'm going to try a neck shot to avoid wasting the shoulders. That's all my buddy shoots for is the neck and he hasn't had one run off yet.
Although I've seen and even made several kills using the 223 or 22/250, I definately don't condone the use of varmint type bullets. Regardless of the DRT kills, sooner or later what seems to be a good hit will cost you a deer due to unexpected bullet failure.
last day of season years ago and had not put any meat in the freezer.
25/06 Nosler 115 grain when I tried to drag him out, head came detached from body no more neck shots for me.
2- does under 50 yards w/ 30/30 broadside
30+ low chest/heart broadside w/ .270 from 20' to 300 yards.
Have not lost any so far and the most any ran was under 10 yards.
Bullet placement and bullet construction rules.
It's not caliber.
Different year and dear:
Forgot-30.06 Wingmaster inherited from Dad.[^]
I'm also color blind so I have a real hard time following blood. I like to drop them right in their tracks!
I have taken a lot of moose with neck shots, just behind the ear but deer are smaller and more apt to move fast so I tend to avoid head shots unless very close. I have shot one doe right up the nose as she looked at me but that was with a crop destruction permit using the 6BR and 105A-max with an 8 twist barrel.
When hunting with a hand gun or ML I try to never hit the shoulder bone, it destroys a lot of good meat. My favorite shot is the deer broadside, head down eating with the front leg on my side in front. I try to sneak the shot in just behind that front leg, hitting the lungs and heart for a fast kill.
Shooting big bones makes a heck of a mess.
Where do you prefer to hit them??
Bow hunting I like to shoot right above the shoulder straight down into the vitals.
Deer can be shot in the plain
Deer can be shot in the meadow
But shot in the fracas results
in a great deal to explain[:)]
High shoulder.
Yep. Prior to last year I was unaware of that shot. My normal MO was to shoot them a lot like Just C says above. I dropped one with the high shoulder shot last year and it is amazing how they drop. It makes them jump up a bit, bring their legs together at the middle and fall down dead in a heap.
It does destroy some meat and that's one reason I'm considering going to a smaller cartridge, but I like that shot placement if it's available.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I'll shoot them where I can, as long as I know the bullet will hit the boiler room. I will go through the shoulder in a heartbeat, since I knwo that anchors them straight away. If I need more meat, I shoot another deer.
I've even used the ole Texas Heart Shot (straight up the *)[}:)] it works like a charm.
I have shot them in the neck, the head, in the chest straight on, up the *, through the shoulder, through the vitals, etc etc etc. I'll take anything but a gut shot, as long as I know it will work.
+1 and AMEN!
Browning X-Bolt Medallion .30-06 with 150 grain Federal soft point.