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Your client got lucky....

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If it was buried to the fletchings, it should have been well into the liver as well.

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$hitty shot, pun intended. I wouldn't have advertised. mtmuley

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Seen a guy get a deer with a glancing shot off a vine maple into the back of the deers head as he turned to run. Lucky to the point of ridiculous.


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First big game animal I ever got with a bow, a little deer, jumped the string and jumped right into my arrow. If he had stayed put I would have missed.

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Yes, I forgot. Alot of people on this board think that all hunting is a fairy tale and everything happens just perfect everytime.

Chitty shots happen, animals dont do what they are supposed to, and arrows and bullets dont do what they are supposed to everytime. Heaven help me cuz I put it on the internet and woke some up.

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Thanks for posting TJ, always good to see stuff you don't get to see every day. Or maybe in a lifetime.



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Yep, if so many things like this werent covered up we could learn a lot more stuff.

I was up on a cliff above a dry creek bed and a ten point buck came quartering in below and toward me. I drew and shot and he jerked his head up toward me at the sound. The arrow (rocket exp with three short blades) hit im in the strong rt jaw but went into the neck. He didnt make it 50 yards.

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If you wait for a perfect shot everytime, you are going to eat a lot of tags! That is why I advocate a good rifle and good bullet for elk hunting and tell the 22-250 and 243 hunters that they are taking a big risk with those little rounds.


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Good thread and thanks TJ for posting. Thanks also for the honesty of the conversation. If you have not experienced a "schitt happens" event in the woods, you've either been really lucky or haven't spent much time in the woods.


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There's good and bad luck. Looks like things went to the good side in this instance.

Don't know if he was BS-ing me or not, but friend described a 2nd hand report where a broad head hit right between the dew claws of an elk's hind leg. Followed a great blood trail to a dead elk in about 200 yds.

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Originally Posted by mtmuley
$hitty shot, pun intended. I wouldn't have advertised. mtmuley


He made it pretty clear it was plain lucky things worked out well. Hardly "advertising".

Sometimes things go wrong and maybe this helps somebody else in the future.



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Originally Posted by Tanner
Sure, but if that arrow zipped through guts those tenderloins wouldn't be hitting my grill or plate either... Or maybe you missed the part where he said it was buried to the fletchings...

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That would be some extra goodies with that.


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Originally Posted by dennisinaz
If you wait for a perfect shot everytime, you are going to eat a lot of tags! That is why I advocate a good rifle and good bullet for elk hunting and tell the 22-250 and 243 hunters that they are taking a big risk with those little rounds.


This. Some people arent affected by Murphys Law, but when i saw my true trophy whale tail 6x6 with 4 long 90 degree curved up fronts running through the brush and timber across and away up a hill about 200 yards away i was glad i had a 300 rum with 180 sirrocos. Its good i did.

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That shot was sick


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That had to burn





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Every time I see that byline "Aim for the Exit Hole", I think of the poopchute shot !
Back in the early 60's a huge Whitetail Buck and I surprised each other on a cleared fence line with thick cover on both sides.
He bolted straight away down the fence line,and in his second bound he displayed a perfect target for me - his touchhole right in the center of all that white hair.
It was a reaction shot, Mount & Fire.
I'm talking twenty yards here, and I knew what my 12ga slug would do in there.
When I went to bung him, I noticed just the slightest crease in the skin on the edge of his orifice.
The slug had indeed found the hole!
The slug traveled forward perfectly just below the backbone, just clipping a bit of it here and there until lodging between the shoulders.
I was carrying a Model 12 Winchester,my first Gun
I wouldn't take the same shot today.


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I'd take that shot every last time today, if I had need for that particular deer.


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On a really big buck or bull, you bet. Some meat is better than no meat.


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With a 12 gauge slug gun at 20 yards? Every day for me!

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