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How do you not get heart/lungs with a properly placed shot on a quartering angle?

Never shot at a deer other than while I was on the ground. Far shoulder works.

If the deer is semi facing you, far ribs just behind the shoulder works. If the deer is angling away, far side just in front of the shoulder. If broadside right near the heart just behind the shoulder. I eat the heart and I like to hit just above it.

I always taught my boys to shoot for the center of "beach ball" between the front legs. That visualization seemed to work for them.

We have never lost a deer shot with a T/TSX, have lost them to piss poor shot placement though.

Have shot many deer with a quartering to presentation. No big deal, might lose a little more meat in the neck shoulder area, but better than no deer.

Reading all these accounts of surgical shot placement not only to hit vitals or CNS, but to save meat and the heart has gave me the feeling of inadequacy.

LOL.

The wait-for-a-broadside-shot crowd would be plenty disappointed in the Benoit family.

For a frontal shot, personally, Id switch to one of the quality all copper bullets. The copper bullets tend to be more forgiving if you hit big bone. Then Heart lungs do quite well. If you are able to place a Brachial plexus shot, That will be quicker.

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Quartering towards, straight on facing you, quartering away, there's always a way. For me I guess it's not hard to imagine and bet all on wound channel tragectory in those heavily wooded, quick oportunities. Not everyone hunts in an open slaughter yard, am I right? I've shot downward angle, center spine between the shoulders before, That's not in the armchair QB internet forum advisor handbook, but it works.

Without a doubt, not that difficult. Take the shot that presents and fill the freezer.

Dancing on pinheads, mental masturbation, and fairy dust be damned.

I personally prefer a head-on shot or quartering-to shot over one quartering away. Easier to connect the dots and the guts seem to get nuked less when they are facing you. I've seen a bunch of big pigs take the head-on shot and run off with no exit, only to start painting the woods with blood from the nostrils in short order. Sometimes they don't bleed at all, but a head-on shot is generally a hard hit to take and they don't go all that far.

In da FACE!!

Yep. They're happy to put a bullet in one just to slow it down a bit. lol

How was opener for your group?

"We got some shooting in."

This thread had more interest than I thought it would. As a woods hunter looking into something like 10gaugemag's picture, waiting for a calendar broadside pose reminds me of the line from the song Thirty Point Buck... "There he was, gone". With 600,000 of us out there on opening day, our deer get a mite nervous and shooting something vital at the first opportunity seems the prudent thing to do.

Well, I shot one up the ass hole once. It worked and it certainly didn't go anywhere. But it was a mess I'll not soon forget.

Beautiful

One windy, snowy morning I watched a buck off in the distant trot thru a saddle on a ridge and head down a large rock strewn hill. I was familiar with the area and assumed he went there to bed down out of the wind. At noon I decided to play Indian and climbed out of the tree and went looking for him. About this time the snow stopped and wind let up and visibility improved as I worked my way on the ridge careful not to skyline.

After peering down into the valley and sidehill I spotted a brown spot in the snow. The binoculars confirmed it was a nice buck laying there quartered towards me. Took off my pack and laid it in the snow for a prone rest. Settled the crosshairs on the back where neck and shoulder meet.

This buck was bedded across a valley at quite a bit lower elevation then I was when I spotted him in a thicket. He was quartered towards me. I could not chance taking off my pack for a rest so put the crosshair on his back and shot him offhand.