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<blockquote data-quote="ShootnMathews" data-source="post: 1142447" data-attributes="member: 59915"><p>From many years of bow hunting I use the same strategy. I ALWAYS shoot for a double lung shot. With bow or rifle. If I can't get a good double lung shot I hold my shot. Slightly quartering towards or away is fine, as long as I can hit them both. For many years now I can not think of an animal that I could not get a broadside shot on if I waited long enough. With a double lung shot you don't get that bang flop that you see on tv. They run, some 20 yards, some 100 yards. 95% of the deer I double lung run about 30 yards. After probably 50 deer I've killed or coached over the last several years, 30 yards seems to be the magic number for how far they can go with both lungs punched. Now there are exceptions. I blew a golf ball sized hole through a 4.5 yr old 9 point last year. Broadside, dead center of lungs and it ran easily over 100 yards and left one drop of blood, that I found. Now where the deer was laying there must have been over a gallon of blood. And the deer was dead in less than a minute. </p><p></p><p>Every bullet acts differently and does better in different media. In my opinion Bergers are lung bullets, as are the Nosler BT bullets that I almost exclusively use. I use about 90% Nosler BT and 10% Berger bullets. I saw a thread somewhere on the net about Nosler BT's being the worst bullet ever made, with dozens of people talking about lost deer. After inquiring with them about placement, nearly all of them were trying to do the "TV bang flop shoulder shot". The rest were poorly placed shots, guts, brisket, such like that. I honestly cannot count the number of deer that been killed with my guns and Nosler BT bullets and so far have not lost a single deer. Again I accredit most of this to waiting for a broadside, double lung shot. I'll post a pic of the dead deer that somehow ran 100 + yards as soon as I find it. By the way, of the deer I've killed with the bergers, all lung shots also, I can tell no difference between the Nosler BT and Berger hunting bullets. Both bullets completely obliterate the lungs inside. With both when field dressing you can literally almost pour the lungs out of the animal. </p><p></p><p>I know that's long winded, but I said all that to the point of , PLACEMENT is FAR more important than bullet selection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShootnMathews, post: 1142447, member: 59915"] From many years of bow hunting I use the same strategy. I ALWAYS shoot for a double lung shot. With bow or rifle. If I can't get a good double lung shot I hold my shot. Slightly quartering towards or away is fine, as long as I can hit them both. For many years now I can not think of an animal that I could not get a broadside shot on if I waited long enough. With a double lung shot you don't get that bang flop that you see on tv. They run, some 20 yards, some 100 yards. 95% of the deer I double lung run about 30 yards. After probably 50 deer I've killed or coached over the last several years, 30 yards seems to be the magic number for how far they can go with both lungs punched. Now there are exceptions. I blew a golf ball sized hole through a 4.5 yr old 9 point last year. Broadside, dead center of lungs and it ran easily over 100 yards and left one drop of blood, that I found. Now where the deer was laying there must have been over a gallon of blood. And the deer was dead in less than a minute. Every bullet acts differently and does better in different media. In my opinion Bergers are lung bullets, as are the Nosler BT bullets that I almost exclusively use. I use about 90% Nosler BT and 10% Berger bullets. I saw a thread somewhere on the net about Nosler BT's being the worst bullet ever made, with dozens of people talking about lost deer. After inquiring with them about placement, nearly all of them were trying to do the "TV bang flop shoulder shot". The rest were poorly placed shots, guts, brisket, such like that. I honestly cannot count the number of deer that been killed with my guns and Nosler BT bullets and so far have not lost a single deer. Again I accredit most of this to waiting for a broadside, double lung shot. I'll post a pic of the dead deer that somehow ran 100 + yards as soon as I find it. By the way, of the deer I've killed with the bergers, all lung shots also, I can tell no difference between the Nosler BT and Berger hunting bullets. Both bullets completely obliterate the lungs inside. With both when field dressing you can literally almost pour the lungs out of the animal. I know that's long winded, but I said all that to the point of , PLACEMENT is FAR more important than bullet selection. [/QUOTE]
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