Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
09-05-2008, 07:42 PM
#42
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Inverness, MS
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
My 2006 buck was almost exactly the scenario as #5. I was 16ft up and he was about 8yds out. I put the arrow where GMMAT put the red dot and it poked through between the brisket and offside shoulder. He was down in 100yds.
09-05-2008, 08:12 PM
#44
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Texas
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Did you read the caveat for No. 5, PT? Premise is you're 20' up, looking down. I will agree that the angle shown makes you look about 12' up.
without reading all the posts, #5 seems high to me as well
09-05-2008, 08:16 PM
#45
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
No problem, PT.....I just felt like the angle shown was from lower than I called out (20'). From the angle shown.....I like you height.....but I'd aim right of where your blue dot is.
Dead deer.
Look at that headgear! I hope I get that shot, this year!
No problem, PT.....I just felt like the angle shown was from lower than I called out (20'). From the angle shown.....I like you height.....but I'd aim right of where your blue dot is.
Dead deer.
Look at that headgear! I hope I get that shot, this year!
Sorry for being off topic...I found humor in it...Jeff, I got that deer on video three different times that year and wasn't going to shoot him but as the last weekend of season came he got an arrow. He was a decent deer but was only 2 1/2 andonly went in the 90's
09-05-2008, 08:58 PM
#46
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Treasure Lake DuBois,Pa.
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
I always shoot for the front of theopposite shoulder on a quartering away shot.
If I can see that my arrow will enter too far back on the loins on that
line to the opposite front shoulder,the deer is quartering to hard. I won't take that shot.
Great thread Jeff.
I always have trouble convincing myself to take the "quartering to" shot.
If I can see that my arrow will enter too far back on the loins on that
line to the opposite front shoulder,the deer is quartering to hard. I won't take that shot.
Great thread Jeff.
I always have trouble convincing myself to take the "quartering to" shot.
09-05-2008, 09:13 PM
#47
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
Cool exercise..looks like to much work to play along though.
Besides there are way to many tree limbs in many of them shots..yeah I know it's hypothetical
Besides there are way to many tree limbs in many of them shots..yeah I know it's hypothetical
09-06-2008, 04:49 AM
#48
Dominant Buck
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RE: Aim for the exit hole....an interactive exercise
Yeah but they will lose 10 pounds in the heat! In a way, I'm glad VA's season doesn't start until October 4th. It is still warm but it is a tad cooler.
