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Energy or bullet diameter most important?
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<blockquote data-quote="L2land" data-source="post: 2758388" data-attributes="member: 126164"><p>There has been a lot of interesting technical data shared throughout this discussion for sure. After all of that it seems to be that we are hoping to uncover a formula for how likely it is that a miss will still kill. The recipe for the bullet and chambering is to get your projectile into the vitals from the shot at hand. That may be close or far and it may be going through bone, muscle, or ideally just a little skin behind the shoulder. The bow hunting portion of me has never contemplated if there is a combination of broadhead and arrow weight that would kill with poor placement. It's all about what do you need to put it through the boilermaker. You can take a high shoulder shot and break down an animal while also doing enough damage to the lungs to kill it with the right gun and bullet. That involves many more variables than doing what you have to to put it on the heart. Sometimes that means not taking the shot until it gives you what you need. I lost the first bull elk I ever shot with a bow because he took a step just as I let the arrow go from 30 yds broadside. Clean pass through but it was high and back in the lungs. He clotted up and quit bleeding and was never seen or found again after looking for three days. Trust me, without going into it, I put all the effort I had into finding it. The point of mentioning that is it changed my perspective on critical shot placement no matter what you are shooting. The next bull I sent an arrow at had a three blade hole through the center of its heart and crashed in the trees 40 yds away when his body ran out of blood pressure. I'm not saying heart is the only way just that placement is numero uno.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L2land, post: 2758388, member: 126164"] There has been a lot of interesting technical data shared throughout this discussion for sure. After all of that it seems to be that we are hoping to uncover a formula for how likely it is that a miss will still kill. The recipe for the bullet and chambering is to get your projectile into the vitals from the shot at hand. That may be close or far and it may be going through bone, muscle, or ideally just a little skin behind the shoulder. The bow hunting portion of me has never contemplated if there is a combination of broadhead and arrow weight that would kill with poor placement. It’s all about what do you need to put it through the boilermaker. You can take a high shoulder shot and break down an animal while also doing enough damage to the lungs to kill it with the right gun and bullet. That involves many more variables than doing what you have to to put it on the heart. Sometimes that means not taking the shot until it gives you what you need. I lost the first bull elk I ever shot with a bow because he took a step just as I let the arrow go from 30 yds broadside. Clean pass through but it was high and back in the lungs. He clotted up and quit bleeding and was never seen or found again after looking for three days. Trust me, without going into it, I put all the effort I had into finding it. The point of mentioning that is it changed my perspective on critical shot placement no matter what you are shooting. The next bull I sent an arrow at had a three blade hole through the center of its heart and crashed in the trees 40 yds away when his body ran out of blood pressure. I’m not saying heart is the only way just that placement is numero uno. [/QUOTE]
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