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Whitetail POI...... What’s your intended Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 2100092" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>They can also turn their head just a little bit and completely goof up the angle of entry, and now the deer is badly wounded and not dropping at the shot like we intended. They also move their heads suddenly, without first telegraphing the movement. If the deer is going to take a step, you will see him pick up a foot first. Not so with the head movements, and deer are often so nervous that their heads seem to never stop moving around. The upper neck isn't much different. The big end of the neck - where it attaches to the torso - is a better bet, but the chest cavity has all the important plumbing in it - so that's where I shoot them. Whether the deer runs or goes right down at the shot seems to me to be more a function of how keyed-up the animal was before the shot, not whether I hit the heart or not. I have shot a ton of deer with both slug guns and rifles, and unless I hit the bones they often didn't go down right away. When they are running like crazy, they generally just keep right on running. They don't go far, but often I've seen them go as much as a100 yards with no heart, or a very big hole in their lungs. This is only a few seconds of running for a deer, though. The ones that have gone right down with the forward rib cage shot have been standing or walking along, unaware of my presence. When the shot is a big surprise to a calm deer, it usually results in them dropping right away, and not getting up. Ditto for the shot that scrambles the nervous system, and you don't necessarily have to hit the spine to accomplish that. The spot where the spine dips low between the shoulder blades is a good spot for that, but it's kinda hard on your bambi-burgers when you shoot them there. If you don't want them to jump the fence onto somebody else's property and die where you can't recover them, though, this is a good place to shoot them and knock them right down pretty reliably.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 2100092, member: 109113"] They can also turn their head just a little bit and completely goof up the angle of entry, and now the deer is badly wounded and not dropping at the shot like we intended. They also move their heads suddenly, without first telegraphing the movement. If the deer is going to take a step, you will see him pick up a foot first. Not so with the head movements, and deer are often so nervous that their heads seem to never stop moving around. The upper neck isn't much different. The big end of the neck - where it attaches to the torso - is a better bet, but the chest cavity has all the important plumbing in it - so that's where I shoot them. Whether the deer runs or goes right down at the shot seems to me to be more a function of how keyed-up the animal was before the shot, not whether I hit the heart or not. I have shot a ton of deer with both slug guns and rifles, and unless I hit the bones they often didn't go down right away. When they are running like crazy, they generally just keep right on running. They don't go far, but often I've seen them go as much as a100 yards with no heart, or a very big hole in their lungs. This is only a few seconds of running for a deer, though. The ones that have gone right down with the forward rib cage shot have been standing or walking along, unaware of my presence. When the shot is a big surprise to a calm deer, it usually results in them dropping right away, and not getting up. Ditto for the shot that scrambles the nervous system, and you don't necessarily have to hit the spine to accomplish that. The spot where the spine dips low between the shoulder blades is a good spot for that, but it's kinda hard on your bambi-burgers when you shoot them there. If you don't want them to jump the fence onto somebody else's property and die where you can't recover them, though, this is a good place to shoot them and knock them right down pretty reliably. [/QUOTE]
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