I'm helping a young lady get started with deer hunting. Does anyone have a link showing the kill zone at various angles and where she should aim? We've discussed it, but sometimes a visual aid is worth a thousand words.

Looks pretty good:

http://www.tnhuntingclub.com/hunting-tips/shooting-at-deer-from-different-angles/

Thanks - that should do it.

a hair high for my personal tastes.. try to teach the kids bottom 1/3, because over 2/3 up is spine and then no mans land. Just my take on it. Angle wise it pretty much covers it.

Wished the vitals formed a round target like that in real life rather than the oblong one they do.

Good luck and thanks for teaching the kids!

Jeff

I have always taught my youngsters to shhot for the opposite shoulder, except for a few hard angle or straight on shots. Has worked so far

Wow thanks for that! I too am helping a youngster begin hunting this year. He's a neighbor kid who has Cystic Fibrosis. I'm doing all I can to make his hunting the best it can be!
We were out breaking in his new rifle and began conversations about shot placement an this will help a bunch!

Thanks!

I always teach in hunter safety class to aim for the exit. You will always hit vitals this way.

Good luck to you and the young lady.

JD338

Lots of diagrams and targets available showing a better vitals area on a broadside shot than that above. Simple google or trip to your favorite gun store to pick up targets.

Here's one you can order from Amazon, made by Hoppes.

http://www.amazon.com/Hoppes-Critter-Paper-Targets-28X28-Inch/dp/B000H6R082/ref=pd_bxgy_sg_img_y

IBEP had some 3 d small deer out, complete with vitals built in, and deer one side, vitals the other... with a long pin that you could slip in at whatever angle etc... from teh deer side, adn then turn around and see exactly what you hit from the flip side.

By FAR one of the best ever teaching tools I've ever seen in my years. I was about to buy a set, before I quit teaching... still wished I had the deer just to show some idiots a thing or two at times...

I grew up around hunting big game with basic archery tackle. I was taught a few different techniques during my youth, but the one that I feel helped me the most was shooting for the exit. I found that shooting for the exit better helped me to visualize the center of the vitals within the game animal, and it gave me less room for error than shooting for the entrance. Later on in my life when I taught my children, I used this same technique which works equally well with a centerfire rifle, and in fact becomes much easier being there are fewer limitations with shot presentations. Exposure to real game animals and realistic 3-D targets are better teaching aids than 2-D pictures to help kids visualize the path through the vitals and out the exit. In the end, if you think about it, you are actually aiming at the same unseen spot withing the deer no matter which shot presentation you intend to take.

Good Luck

Looks good to me. I teach hunters safety here in Michigan, and they have a lesion on the computer, that will show you where to hit a variety of animals. You then press the mouse, it will then show you what you hit.