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TV shows can't drop animals?
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<blockquote data-quote="CanardNoir" data-source="post: 1344045" data-attributes="member: 64559"><p>Interesting observation about some of TV show's show-up-n-shoot shooters.</p><p></p><p>I've thought the same thing time and time again, and the only reasonable explanation at under 200-yards is - <em>"gut shot"</em>.</p><p></p><p>My first whitetail deer back in 1965 was taken with a then-new 6.5 Rem magnum, 120 gr factory ammo, broadside behind the buck's right-front leg, at 125 yards. Heart and lungs reduced to Jello-like substance and the deer fell right there in its own tracks.</p><p></p><p>Years later, I took three management bucks one weekend with three (3) shots - all at less than 200 yards - with a very accurate .22-250 Rem, 53 gr BTHPs - neck, heart and spine bullet placement, all with the same dropped-in-their-tracks results.</p><p></p><p>More recently, I took a large 11-pt with a Remington semi-auto chambered in .308 Win with a 150 gr. Hornady SST, at 125-paces. Heart and lungs were liquefied, but this big deer (200-lbs+) ran 20 yards only to collapse in a cane thicket.</p><p></p><p>I've taken three (3) one-shot mule deer with a .270 Win; two (2) at about 200 yards with the old 150 gr Fed Prem ammo & Nosler Partitions and one (1) with the old 130 gr Rem bronze points at 100 yards. Two dropped in their tracks, one ran downhill about 40 yards. All three were heart-lung but the runner was shot broadside.</p><p></p><p>It's not what you shoot that really matters - but where you hit that counts.</p><p></p><p>So like I said, the only reasonable explanation would be less-than-desirable shot placement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CanardNoir, post: 1344045, member: 64559"] Interesting observation about some of TV show's show-up-n-shoot shooters. I've thought the same thing time and time again, and the only reasonable explanation at under 200-yards is - [I]"gut shot"[/I]. My first whitetail deer back in 1965 was taken with a then-new 6.5 Rem magnum, 120 gr factory ammo, broadside behind the buck's right-front leg, at 125 yards. Heart and lungs reduced to Jello-like substance and the deer fell right there in its own tracks. Years later, I took three management bucks one weekend with three (3) shots - all at less than 200 yards - with a very accurate .22-250 Rem, 53 gr BTHPs - neck, heart and spine bullet placement, all with the same dropped-in-their-tracks results. More recently, I took a large 11-pt with a Remington semi-auto chambered in .308 Win with a 150 gr. Hornady SST, at 125-paces. Heart and lungs were liquefied, but this big deer (200-lbs+) ran 20 yards only to collapse in a cane thicket. I've taken three (3) one-shot mule deer with a .270 Win; two (2) at about 200 yards with the old 150 gr Fed Prem ammo & Nosler Partitions and one (1) with the old 130 gr Rem bronze points at 100 yards. Two dropped in their tracks, one ran downhill about 40 yards. All three were heart-lung but the runner was shot broadside. It's not what you shoot that really matters - but where you hit that counts. So like I said, the only reasonable explanation would be less-than-desirable shot placement. [/QUOTE]
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