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If within 1-200 yards. HANDS DOWN HIGH SHOULDER. (Base of the nexk) its a light switch. Too many times my minds eye can see legs tucked up under the animal seemingly hovering in mid air only to come Slam-in down and roll Over.
If farther center of the lungs is my target.
CW
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Campfire Tracker
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High shoulder. Usually drops them right there.
You get out of life what you are willing to accept. If you ain't happy, do something about it!
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Jim Beam Devils Cut or Wild Turkey 101.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Through the shoulders unless it’s just a meat deer and then right behind the ear.
I hate behind the shoulder shots. Yes they work and yes you kill deer but I despise tracking deer.
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+1 on through the shoulders
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Campfire Outfitter
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My favorite shot on the body is quartering away at enough of an angle that I can aim for ribs behind the foreleg and drive the bullet up through the legs to just inside the front of the opposite shoulder. They bleed all over hell, never go very far no matter what they are shot with, and little if any shoulder meat is damaged. The same shot reversed works the same, but I can't seem to miss the onside shoulder meat, and lose some meat. Other than those two, neck shots, neck shots, neck shots.
I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.
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I prefer broadside, or quartering away shoulder. But I won't turn down a shot that I can comfortably get into the lungs with.
No rear end shots though. Just not my style.
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I prefer markmanship skills over ruining meat. I like base of the skull, upper neck shot! Of course , I have to pass on many occasions!
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Campfire Tracker
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Frontal kills in dead. Edk
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Right behind the shoulder unless it is a big buck then I will sacrifice the shoulder.
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Quartering facing towards me. Bust that onside shoulder knuckle, take out the goodies after.
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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. Amen. That quartering towards you can really [bleep] up some [bleep].
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Which is why I prefer to not have an angle that involves shoulder bones, if possible. YMMV.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Deer standing, me resting on something, semi comfortably. Clear opening between gun and whatever part I'm trying to hit.
Rarely ever happens that way.
Too much to ask for, but broadside or angled away ribs under 100 yards is ice cream on the cake.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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I try to envision where the heart is from most any angle and aim to that point. I don't recall a single Texas heart shot, though.
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Close enough to the buck, that I can't miss.
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I like to aim for the neck and shoulder.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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I like to shoot for the top of the heart to take out the arteries/veins there and break a shoulder either on the way in or out...
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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The first year I ever got a deer in 2008 I was 57 years old. With a 270 at 400 yards where was a button buck walking away. I estimated Kentucky elevation and fired. I look through the scope and his nose was shot off and he was staggering. Then he went down. How can a nose shot take down a deer?
I hit him 1" above the anus. It turned the spine bone fragments into gut shot shrapnel and then went out the nose.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Campfire Ranger
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His spine was shattered into fragments, yet he was still staggering?
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