Shot Placement
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Crystal City MO USA
Posts: 244
RE: Shot Placement
I agree with you popeye. If you have a problem, state it on the board, don' t e-mail people. This guy has been sending me private messages out the wazoo.... Something tells me he is about 10 years old.
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Slower Lower Delaware 1st State
Posts: 1,776
RE: Shot Placement
DB,
I assume you have the gun properly sighted and the deer is standing broadside and facing your left. My next guess for a shot in the Tenderloin would be your right handed and your jerkin the trigger(pulling gun to right) on a deer facing your left. Could this be the problem??
When you take aim just behind the shoulder take a DEEP breath - Then SQUEEZE the trigger. Your Deer will drop on the spot or run 50-100+ yrds.
You will find a nice hole behind the shoulder in the vital area - Easy Try It.
Good Luck
I assume you have the gun properly sighted and the deer is standing broadside and facing your left. My next guess for a shot in the Tenderloin would be your right handed and your jerkin the trigger(pulling gun to right) on a deer facing your left. Could this be the problem??
When you take aim just behind the shoulder take a DEEP breath - Then SQUEEZE the trigger. Your Deer will drop on the spot or run 50-100+ yrds.
You will find a nice hole behind the shoulder in the vital area - Easy Try It.
Good Luck
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gypsum KS USA
Posts: 1,289
RE: Shot Placement
I like putting the bullet through the shoulder, it' s incredibly effective in incapacitating deer, it takes them off their feet in a hurry and most likely I' m getting frontal lung as well. This shot minimizes peripheral meat damage and maximizes the inherent odds of a single shot drop. If I don' t shoot the shoulder joint, I take the shot directly behind the point of the elbow when the leg is only lifted and not extended, it works like a billboard sign saying " shoot here" ---->, this almost always turns out to a double lung+heart shot, it eliminates the guess work of elevation on the body.