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Under ideal conditions what's your favorite shot to take? Neck/spine, Shoulder, Vitals, Other?
I prefer right behind the shoulder so I don't damage and meat. I don't eat the ribs so nothing is lost.
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Perfectly broadside and tight behind the shoulder.
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Perfectly broadside or slightly quartering to me and tight behind straight through the shoulders. Fixed it for you This is for a rifle shot obviously. For a bow, I do want to be tight behind the shoulder and a little low.
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With a good rest inside of 100 yards or so, neck. In less than ideal conditions, shoulders.
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Ground level, behind shoulder. From up high, spine.
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Perfectly broadside and through the lungs if I am meat hunting.
If I am close to property lines or just don't want to deal with one running, then I'll run the bullet through the shoulders.
Quartering away and aiming at the offside leg is probably my favorite for most conditions when possible.
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If its not too far away and the animal is pretty still or barely moving, I like a neck shot. It puts 'em down for the count. No tracking or BS, it's over as soon as I let off the trigger. If it's moving, like walking slowly or much over 100 yards, behind the front leg in the ribs, in front of the guts, not in the guts. My .270 Win. with a 130 grain SGK at 3100 FPS puts 'em down for the count.
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Perfectly broadside and tight behind the shoulder. ^^^^ This if I'm sitting in a stand or the rare time or 2 when I walk up on one unalarmed. Stalking, I take what they will give me which usually ain't much.
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What Battue said Closer is always better. I find rarely do I get a full broadside presentation. I truly suck at judging the angle of a deer so I take a shot where the bullet will either enter or exit through a shoulder. Some meat is lost but the kill is quick and if my judgement of angle is wrong as it so often is the bullet will still go through the thoracic cavity.
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Before 2012 I usually shot low behind the shoulder. ( heart/lung)
Since 2012 because of property lines.... Hi Shoulder - just above the shoulder = spine. Neck facing me or facing away works wonders.
I've shot a 'few' heads and that can get messy so I don't any longer.
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When I can, I try to send it through both lungs, taking off the top of the heart.
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I shoot through the shoulders, they are dead right there.
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Double shoulder punch thru, or straight on chest shot to exit hams, just busted a wide old spindly 6pt like that with a 150yr old Sharps rifle in 45-110 at 30 yards, the 514gr round nosed paper patch bullet exited ham next to his nut sack, BOOM! drop! didn't move.
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