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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Dog" data-source="post: 61647" data-attributes="member: 1622"><p>Dave,</p><p></p><p>I hadn't considered the 'force multiplier' idea of brain shots for culling. </p><p></p><p>At the risk of hijacking a thread, would you mind taking a second to explain how you visualise your aiming point for a brain shot; deer face on, side on and oblique.</p><p></p><p>I've never brain shot a deer, so I don't feel wildly confident about the aiming point; </p><p></p><p>for eg, on Saturday I lay waiting for a doe to show herself over a convex slope (waiting to neck shoot her), meanwhile her young buck partner lay facing me. </p><p></p><p>To pass the time I moved my sight picture over the buck's face. </p><p></p><p>I think that a brain stem shot would have meant shooting between the nostrils- which made me think about how much bone, sinus etc the bullet would have to transit to reach the stem - a lot! </p><p></p><p>Shifting the POA higher -between the eyes, presented a 'glacis plate' of sloping skull bone. </p><p></p><p>What's the solution? [in case you wondered, the pair took off and I didn't get the shot!]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By the way, Bill B, Don't feel bad, I don't understand the SMK debate either: </p><p></p><p>Encouraged by the SMK reports that I read when I first discovered this board, I experimented by shooting an unopened tin of tomatoes at 200m with a 168 lapua scenar out of a 308. </p><p></p><p>Expected an explosion; nothing happened. </p><p></p><p>Thought I'd missed. </p><p></p><p>However, it was drilled dead centre /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif </p><p></p><p>Next time I'm attacked by tinned tomatoes, Scenars will not be my projectile of choice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p><p></p><p>Each to his own I guess /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Dog, post: 61647, member: 1622"] Dave, I hadn't considered the 'force multiplier' idea of brain shots for culling. At the risk of hijacking a thread, would you mind taking a second to explain how you visualise your aiming point for a brain shot; deer face on, side on and oblique. I've never brain shot a deer, so I don't feel wildly confident about the aiming point; for eg, on Saturday I lay waiting for a doe to show herself over a convex slope (waiting to neck shoot her), meanwhile her young buck partner lay facing me. To pass the time I moved my sight picture over the buck's face. I think that a brain stem shot would have meant shooting between the nostrils- which made me think about how much bone, sinus etc the bullet would have to transit to reach the stem - a lot! Shifting the POA higher -between the eyes, presented a 'glacis plate' of sloping skull bone. What's the solution? [in case you wondered, the pair took off and I didn't get the shot!] By the way, Bill B, Don't feel bad, I don't understand the SMK debate either: Encouraged by the SMK reports that I read when I first discovered this board, I experimented by shooting an unopened tin of tomatoes at 200m with a 168 lapua scenar out of a 308. Expected an explosion; nothing happened. Thought I'd missed. However, it was drilled dead centre [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Next time I'm attacked by tinned tomatoes, Scenars will not be my projectile of choice [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Each to his own I guess [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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