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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

High shoulder. Usually drops them right there.

Jim Beam Devils Cut or Wild Turkey 101.

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.

+1 on through the shoulders

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 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.

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!

Frontal kills in dead. Edk

Right behind the shoulder unless it is a big buck then I will sacrifice the shoulder.

Quartering facing towards me. Bust that onside shoulder knuckle, take out the goodies after.

Amen. That quartering towards you can really [bleep] up some [bleep].

Which is why I prefer to not have an angle that involves shoulder bones, if possible. YMMV.

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.

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.

Close enough to the buck, that I can't miss.

I like to aim for the neck and shoulder.

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...

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.

His spine was shattered into fragments, yet he was still staggering?