Do you hunt ? I hope not...And that is material how? He can also move on his feet...
If it is facing 90° from you and you hit him in the snout you would have also missed the heart and hit it in the brisket. If you missed the other way you either hit it in the spine or its a clean miss. With a body shot and you missed the other way so now you shot him in the diaphram.
In either case have no business shooting it if you cant make the shot correctly and the result is you wounded a deer that will hopefully die quickly instead of days later. If hes facing you or away no snout is going to stop a bullet from flying through its head.
Heres a picture of a cull buck a person shot in the brisket that didnt go down for quite awhile. Notice how it ran far enough for long enough for coyotes to have eaten him up in the time it took for us to get out there and track it down later after learning about the shot at dinner 2 hours later.
You tell me whats the more humane kill: brains splattered about on the spot it was shot or hoping he expired and was not merely wounded while being eaten alive?
Head shooting deer?
- Thread starter johnmventers398
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I live to hunt.
Know what I hate? Tracking down deer shot in the body by bad shoots and bow hunters.
Around 200 yards is about as far as shots present themselves in these parts.
Further than that Ill give it to you, shoot them in the neck if you have to make the shot. Nothing wrong with neck shots other than messing up some great meat.
Or if its a mountable buck then shoot in the body to save holes in the cape.
But Ive had to track too many deer people shoot in the shoulder/body where as a head shot would have been a clean miss or a clean kill. Ive still never had to track a deer shot in the head further than where it stood.
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hit a pig in the head with a 168gr Amax at 50 yards,,DOA,,thats it,,
I shot a deer in the head with my bow on video. I practiced daily year around back then or wouldn’t have tried it. What was cool about it was that when we played it back you could hear the feathered arrow screaming all the way to the deer!
I kill my best deer with a bow usually but even with a rifle I wouldn’t take head shots for the simple reason that it’s such a small target.
I kill my best deer with a bow usually but even with a rifle I wouldn’t take head shots for the simple reason that it’s such a small target.
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Stick bows forever
Only own 2: I have a fishing bow from the Philippines that I used for years and a bushman bow from Africa with a quiver full of arrows that I just look at. Lol
I deer hunt with a Mathews and not sure how much longer I can. I tore the muscles in my left shoulder on a late season hunt..
Sorry to hear about your shoulder, Mike. I hope it heals well.
Very nice
No. These 2 were made by one of my favorite bowyers, Nate Steele. He is now retired. The bow in the bottom photo is a take-down.
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My shot choices, in order, are:
1 - head
2 - neck
3 - high shoulder
4 - boiler room
I've seen too many deer shot through the heart/lungs run quite a ways before they drop. The only deer that I ever lost was a boiler room hit at less than 100 yards. There was enough rib, lung, blood and hair sprayed on the ground and foliage where I'd shot it that it looked like a butcher shop. The land owner and I tracked it until the blood stopped and the tracks were lost on hard ground and among other tracks. Swore then and there it would never happen again, hence my choices.
1 - head
2 - neck
3 - high shoulder
4 - boiler room
I've seen too many deer shot through the heart/lungs run quite a ways before they drop. The only deer that I ever lost was a boiler room hit at less than 100 yards. There was enough rib, lung, blood and hair sprayed on the ground and foliage where I'd shot it that it looked like a butcher shop. The land owner and I tracked it until the blood stopped and the tracks were lost on hard ground and among other tracks. Swore then and there it would never happen again, hence my choices.
Culled as many as 100 in a month. Most all were 15-20yds standing motionless with their head in a bait. The aim point was dead center in the brain from the top or the side, not simply a "head shot". either a 22LR, a 22WRM or a .223Rem.
Every deer that I have killed with bow or gun over 50 years of hunting (in many states) was shot through both lungs, never even remotely considering a BRAIN shot.
Every deer that I have killed with bow or gun over 50 years of hunting (in many states) was shot through both lungs, never even remotely considering a BRAIN shot.
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