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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1826863" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>I'm of the same mind on that one. I've grappled with my upbringing about this - shoot them "right behind the arm" and have two good shoulders with no blood-shot meat, or break - and completely mess up - one ( or both ) shoulders and not kill yourself packing the quarters out of the bottom of some nasty hell-hole canyon. I had mentioned my buddies in Minnesota commenting about just shooting more deer and shooting them all in the shoulders. I once asked them this<strong> :</strong> "Are you guys saying that the only reason God gave deer shoulders was to get them to the scene of the kill ???" They said "YUP, that's right." Geez Louise, that seems pretty wasteful to a guy who grew up on wise old sayings like "Waste not - want not." </p><p></p><p>I think that I'm probably going to be shooting most of my animals right over the elbow, with a bullet that isn't a known meat destroyer. I have found that bigger bullets that expand less violently on light-bodied deer really do destroy less meat, but hitting the bone negates that pretty quickly. If I give up one shoulder ( on an angling shot ) that may be as far into this as I can go on a regular basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1826863, member: 109113"] I'm of the same mind on that one. I've grappled with my upbringing about this - shoot them "right behind the arm" and have two good shoulders with no blood-shot meat, or break - and completely mess up - one ( or both ) shoulders and not kill yourself packing the quarters out of the bottom of some nasty hell-hole canyon. I had mentioned my buddies in Minnesota commenting about just shooting more deer and shooting them all in the shoulders. I once asked them this[B] :[/B] "Are you guys saying that the only reason God gave deer shoulders was to get them to the scene of the kill ???" They said "YUP, that's right." Geez Louise, that seems pretty wasteful to a guy who grew up on wise old sayings like "Waste not - want not." I think that I'm probably going to be shooting most of my animals right over the elbow, with a bullet that isn't a known meat destroyer. I have found that bigger bullets that expand less violently on light-bodied deer really do destroy less meat, but hitting the bone negates that pretty quickly. If I give up one shoulder ( on an angling shot ) that may be as far into this as I can go on a regular basis. [/QUOTE]
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