Where would you aim?
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ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
Well I'm not going to try to figure all that out, it's simple,
I aim for the exit hole, hopefully on the knuckle on the opposite shoulder passing through the lungs and heart.
Well I'm not going to try to figure all that out, it's simple,
I aim for the exit hole, hopefully on the knuckle on the opposite shoulder passing through the lungs and heart.
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ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
I'd take one lung and heart exiting low in the chest depending, still aiming for the exit hole.
I'd take one lung and heart exiting low in the chest depending, still aiming for the exit hole.
ORIGINAL: Roskoe
This is a pretty tough shot due to the angle and the fact that the distance to thedeer is fairly short. Most folks are going to hit this deer higher than they want. If you aim where rob said, you are probably going to hit higher and wind up hitting the first lung high and far back - hit the second lung low and far forward.
This is a pretty tough shot due to the angle and the fact that the distance to thedeer is fairly short. Most folks are going to hit this deer higher than they want. If you aim where rob said, you are probably going to hit higher and wind up hitting the first lung high and far back - hit the second lung low and far forward.
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ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Its so darn hard to explain it on here, in person would be so much easier! Alot of timeson a severe angle your only going to get one lung. Don't take the shot if your not confident about it.
Its so darn hard to explain it on here, in person would be so much easier! Alot of timeson a severe angle your only going to get one lung. Don't take the shot if your not confident about it.
What you guys are doing is giving me a general cookie cutter answer while I'm asking for specifics. And you're not really thinking about the distances and angles I'm asking about before typing.
I really want and respect your guys' experience but all that's happening here is you're confusing me and are even contradicting yourselves from one post to the very next.
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ORIGINAL: Hoytail Hunter
well then why would you tell me to go for the lungs if in that situation I would only get the dreaded "one lung"?
What you guys are doing is giving me a general cookie cutter answer while I'm asking for specifics. And you're not really thinking about the distances and angles I'm asking about before typing.
I really want and respect your guys' experience but all that's happening here is you're confusing me and are even contradicting yourselves from one post to the very next.
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Its so darn hard to explain it on here, in person would be so much easier! Alot of timeson a severe angle your only going to get one lung. Don't take the shot if your not confident about it.
Its so darn hard to explain it on here, in person would be so much easier! Alot of timeson a severe angle your only going to get one lung. Don't take the shot if your not confident about it.
What you guys are doing is giving me a general cookie cutter answer while I'm asking for specifics. And you're not really thinking about the distances and angles I'm asking about before typing.
I really want and respect your guys' experience but all that's happening here is you're confusing me and are even contradicting yourselves from one post to the very next.
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This really is not that difficult. One good thing that was mentioned is aim for the exit. Another, and it would help if you have a 3D target, is to take a bunch of shish-kebob skewers and shove them thru that deer at every conceivable angle you think you might attempt a shot at and try and make them all meet just low of center inside the deer and between the 2 shoulder blades. Make sense?
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Best advice I could give you is to not get so high in the tree .....and to make some of those angles lessen. From 30' in a tree.....you're SEVERELY handcuffing yourself on what should be "chip shots". You're your own worst enemy.
Look down at the deer......and imagine the path the arrow is going to take THROUGH the animal. Then do as everyone else has been telling you. Aim for the exit hole. Nobody's making this hard, but you.
Look down at the deer......and imagine the path the arrow is going to take THROUGH the animal. Then do as everyone else has been telling you. Aim for the exit hole. Nobody's making this hard, but you.
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Best advice I could give you is to not get so high in the tree .....and to make some of those angles lessen. From 30' in a tree.....you're SEVERELY handcuffing yourself on what should be "chip shots". You're your own worst enemy.
Best advice I could give you is to not get so high in the tree .....and to make some of those angles lessen. From 30' in a tree.....you're SEVERELY handcuffing yourself on what should be "chip shots". You're your own worst enemy.
Look down at the deer......and imagine the path the arrow is going to take THROUGH the animal. Then do as everyone else has been telling you. Aim for the exit hole.
Nobody's making this hard, but you.
You tell me Jeff, since I've read many of your posts and you seem to know your left from your right and your north from your south and are pretty good with the language (I don't mean to patronizeby this statement, take it literally)... Anyway, on a deer thatis 20 yards out and quartering away at a severe 65 degree angle while you are 30 feet up higher in elevation than that deer, would you aim for an exit hole that isbehind the far shoulder?and why or why not?