Big Minnesota Buck
10-13-2008, 01:59 PM
#44
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Big Minnesota Buck
What do you mean, "with that shot placement". At how the animal was quartering away, that arrow was put right where it needed to be. Looks a lot like the doe I shot a few weeks ago.
She was in a hard quarter away. I stuck the arrow way back on her. It went in behind the rib cage, through her diaphram, liver, right lung, through the top of the heart, and out above her collar bone, takeing out the left lung with it too. She took 10 steps and fell dead.
She was in a hard quarter away. I stuck the arrow way back on her. It went in behind the rib cage, through her diaphram, liver, right lung, through the top of the heart, and out above her collar bone, takeing out the left lung with it too. She took 10 steps and fell dead.
10-13-2008, 02:19 PM
#45
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Illinois
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RE: Big Minnesota Buck
A shot is, by matter of opinion, ethical or unethical. I don't make decisions on whether the shot was ethical, with archery equipment, based on the setup..........because that would not be ethical in itself.
I agree with you all, that shot is not an ethical shot to make and I would have passed.....lethal or not. Many shots are 100% LETHAL.....but are not ethical with archery equipment. JMHO.
I agree with you all, that shot is not an ethical shot to make and I would have passed.....lethal or not. Many shots are 100% LETHAL.....but are not ethical with archery equipment. JMHO.
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Planter....
That's why I clarifid my statement to include knowing one's setup. I wouldn't take that shot with a 50# bow.
I always think back to something I read from an author named Joe Brooks. Joe says that....breaking it down....the size of a full sized buck's vitals are about the size of a basketball. He says if he KNOWS he can place his arrow into that area.....he's gonna take the shot.
Isn't this kinda like the guys who post up their kills from 70yds? Just because it's NOT "OK" for some to take this shot (due to setup issues or their confidence level).....that says nothing to what someone else might do. Irrelevant.
Planter....
That's why I clarifid my statement to include knowing one's setup. I wouldn't take that shot with a 50# bow.
I always think back to something I read from an author named Joe Brooks. Joe says that....breaking it down....the size of a full sized buck's vitals are about the size of a basketball. He says if he KNOWS he can place his arrow into that area.....he's gonna take the shot.
Isn't this kinda like the guys who post up their kills from 70yds? Just because it's NOT "OK" for some to take this shot (due to setup issues or their confidence level).....that says nothing to what someone else might do. Irrelevant.
10-13-2008, 02:38 PM
#46
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
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RE: Big Minnesota Buck
ORIGINAL: bhunter50
A shot is, by matter of opinion, ethical or unethical. I don't make decisions on whether the shot was ethical, with archery equipment, based on the setup..........because that would not be ethical in itself.
I agree with you all, that shot is not an ethical shot to make and I would have passed.....lethal or not. Many shots are 100% LETHAL.....but are not ethical with archery equipment. JMHO.
A shot is, by matter of opinion, ethical or unethical. I don't make decisions on whether the shot was ethical, with archery equipment, based on the setup..........because that would not be ethical in itself.
I agree with you all, that shot is not an ethical shot to make and I would have passed.....lethal or not. Many shots are 100% LETHAL.....but are not ethical with archery equipment. JMHO.
I also disagree that shots that are 100% lethal are "not ethical." Because the shots I know of that are 100% lethal are shots that get an arrow into the bottom half of the lungs or involve the heart, which result in quick relatively humane kills. I would say EVERY deer I've ever killed died a much more humane death than probably 90% of the patients I've cared for in nearly 13 yrs as a nurse, and that animal would be have also.
10-13-2008, 06:40 PM
#48
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Northern Kentucky
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RE: Big Minnesota Buck
ORIGINAL: burniegoeasily
What do you mean, "with that shot placement". At how the animal was quartering away, that arrow was put right where it needed to be. Looks a lot like the doe I shot a few weeks ago.
She was in a hard quarter away. I stuck the arrow way back on her. It went in behind the rib cage, through her diaphram, liver, right lung, through the top of the heart, and out above her collar bone, takeing out the left lung with it too. She took 10 steps and fell dead.
What do you mean, "with that shot placement". At how the animal was quartering away, that arrow was put right where it needed to be. Looks a lot like the doe I shot a few weeks ago.
She was in a hard quarter away. I stuck the arrow way back on her. It went in behind the rib cage, through her diaphram, liver, right lung, through the top of the heart, and out above her collar bone, takeing out the left lung with it too. She took 10 steps and fell dead.
I know that the shot is defnitely a lethal shot and never doubted it, I was pretty much refering to the tracking job that he must have went through. With the shot being so high and no exit wound, I just thought it would be difficult to track but not impossible.
I have shot deer that were quartering away and I know they dont go far at all.
