Texas Heart Shots
07-24-2008, 07:51 PM
#1
Thread Starter
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Texas Heart Shots
I know some feel that shooting a deer,elk or any kind of game animal up the rear end is a good clean shot so i figured i would post this target for those guys to practice their shooting skill and get tuned in.
07-24-2008, 08:31 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,762
RE: Texas Heart Shots
Yeah, funny. Just don't hit the 8 or 9 ring. That would probably hurt worst than one in the 10 ring.
Several years ago when I shot my flinter a lot and my eyes were better I made a shot like that. I normally wouldn't take that shot and today I would never attempt it. But it was the last day of the season and my freezer was void of venison. I had a mature doe walking straight away from me at around 40 or 45 ydd, stop with her tail up. I set the front bead under the dark spot and squeezed off the shot. When the smoke cleared she was laying right there - stone dead. I never did find the entry hole on that deer. It must have been like getting a 50 cal suppository.
Several years ago when I shot my flinter a lot and my eyes were better I made a shot like that. I normally wouldn't take that shot and today I would never attempt it. But it was the last day of the season and my freezer was void of venison. I had a mature doe walking straight away from me at around 40 or 45 ydd, stop with her tail up. I set the front bead under the dark spot and squeezed off the shot. When the smoke cleared she was laying right there - stone dead. I never did find the entry hole on that deer. It must have been like getting a 50 cal suppository.
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07-25-2008, 12:01 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Texas (Williamson Co.)
Posts: 128
RE: Texas Heart Shots
Bull's eye!!!
Looks like a Koala bear blowing you a kiss!
Actually, I did once hit a buck in the hams. I was using a CVA Kentucky rifle in .45, loaded with a 250 gn TC Maxi-ball.
Through the binoculars I could see one side of his rack growing down along his right jaw. The range was long for me, with that gun (close to 150 yds, I figured)and the wind was blowing hard.
I wouldn't have even tried the shot but for the fact that he looked like a cull.
I aimed into the wind, but it still hit too far back. We finally found him after a long search, recovered the slug too.
Came to find out that he'd broken one side of his rack right at the skull (ouch!) and wasn't genetically inferior at all.
I'd have thought that I missed him clean, but a buddy was video taping the shot. On reviewing the film, you could see his legs buckle when the shot hit, so we searched harder than me might have and found just a little blood.
BP
Looks like a Koala bear blowing you a kiss!
Actually, I did once hit a buck in the hams. I was using a CVA Kentucky rifle in .45, loaded with a 250 gn TC Maxi-ball.
Through the binoculars I could see one side of his rack growing down along his right jaw. The range was long for me, with that gun (close to 150 yds, I figured)and the wind was blowing hard.
I wouldn't have even tried the shot but for the fact that he looked like a cull.
I aimed into the wind, but it still hit too far back. We finally found him after a long search, recovered the slug too.
Came to find out that he'd broken one side of his rack right at the skull (ouch!) and wasn't genetically inferior at all.
I'd have thought that I missed him clean, but a buddy was video taping the shot. On reviewing the film, you could see his legs buckle when the shot hit, so we searched harder than me might have and found just a little blood.
BP
