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Good to see nobody is using the Texas Heart Shot.

Double lunger. Just used to it because of bow hunting. If I'm using a gun and I don't want'em running, hit the shoulders. If they're walking towards me or quartering towards me, I like to put it right in front of the shoulder at the base if the neck. I killed three like that this year. This one I almost missed.

Inside of fifty yards if Bambi has no idea I am there quite often I will run a bullet through just underneath the skull. No mess no fuss and no chasing them down. Beyond that I like to watch for a quartering angle where the bullet will travel just over or maybe through the heart but not touch the shoulders. If it's a deer I want and it doesn't give me that quartering shot I like just behind the shoulders. With the crossbow, double lung behind the shoulder or if facing me straight on and does not know I am there, in just above the sternum and out near the umbilicus. I shoot exclusively for my table and will not waste meat, but for rare occasions when I have to put then down right now when I will use a high shoulder shot at somewhere past 200 yards.

Yes, as a lifelong bowhunter, the heart/lung right behind the shoulder. Low in the body for a good blood trail.

Yep

Agree

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS !^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wow, I thought you had good taste Scott ?

Apparently, I have to re-evaluate !

Neck shot when it's presentable (not to often), otherwise as stated above right behind the shoulder broadside.

I'm just tossing this out... ever look at bone structure in the neck? How it goes from center to not center etc... necks it doesn't take much off to not hit CNS. Thats why I've never taken that shot. My mentor showed me that when I was very young. Then he compared how round the brain and stem is as a target its much more forgiving than the neck. The only thing, and that goes with the neck too, you have to figure out how to make sure they are not going to move and make something nice and clean, dirty and ugly.

I know how to do that with a head shot so that its head or nothing. No low jaw shots etc...

I still like head shots but I don't take em because it gives Tiger no trailing practice.

I"m good with anyone doing what they want but I often wonder if anatomy wise how many neck shooters realize there is a bigger target thats as quick a kill and doesn't tear up the neck meat either.

Bottom line we all do the way we want anyway.

Another "yep" here.

Slight quartering to, or away, trying to take out either the near or far side shoulder and the top of the heart.

Yep, that is where I love to put my shots as well!

Works for me.

Shoulders

This is my general idea, most places aren’t good for tracking and they don’t tote that shot off very well!!!

Lung

Shoulders.

With my 300 win mag I love a frontal shot. Most other calibers I prefer both shoulders. I do not like tracking or dragging. Ed k

Broadside, in the middle of the front half.