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Whitetail POI...... What’s your intended Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="charliewhisky" data-source="post: 2364500" data-attributes="member: 26716"><p>If someone else gets my deer, it isn't because I didn't try.</p><p>I hunt from the ground and almost never from a static location. As a result, I take the best shot that presents itself, when it presents. My goal is to eat venison.</p><p>For many years I only hunted with a bow and I hunted a lot. As a result I have taken many shots other than the preferred double lung. The ability to do this requires either a good knowledge of anatomy or a near certainty that you can track wounded game. As an example, I have shot a feeding doe with a bow from the rear, from the ground, with the intention of cutting the large artery inside the left leg with success. I have bow shot deer from the front quartering toward me with the only shot being low and between the chest and leg toward the rear hip. I once shot a doe facing me and crouching to leap when I was about ten feet away and put the arrow into the artery at the rear leg. I don't pretend to claim that all my kills have been clean but I have lost only four deer that I know of, a buck shot at contact range downward thru the chest where I could not find a blood trail, a good chest shot on a running buck where a thunderstorm hid the blood trail, a buck I tracked for two hours with a friend that we think was taken by other hunters, and a doe that I shot almost straight down thru the chest when she crawled into an old fence line and laid down a few feet away. Eventually, I found two of the bucks bones, the contact shot and the running shot later in the season. I have tracked many deer with success and I have learned that there are two occasions when you should not believe you can track an animal, When there is a good snowfall going on or when leaves are falling and hiding the trail.</p><p></p><p>Now I hut mostly with a 30-06 and the rule still applies. Take the shot. This year I have taken two does that both presented less than perfect shots. One doe was quartering toward me and knew I was there. She was just deciding which way to run in heavy cover. I shot her behind her right shoulder and the bullet exited her left buttock near he anus. There was no blood trail because she bled out internally within 50 yards. It took me about 30 minutes of quartering and looking for blood to find he. The other doe presented only her head and a half shoulder and I pinned her front shoulders. Two years ago I shot a large eight point with my second shot as he was charging uphill toward where I was sitting on the ground. I had missed a moving shot a moment before, probably a deflected round and he was just trying to get away from the noise. By the time I picked up a sight picture and fired, he was less than 15 feet away and he dropped 5 feet in front of me. Because he was "bounding uphill" my front chest sight picture resulted in a heart shot that entered his chest below his heart and angled upward toward his butt. He almost would have stepped on me.</p><p>Don't worry about losing the deer to another hunter. Take the shot and tell the story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charliewhisky, post: 2364500, member: 26716"] If someone else gets my deer, it isn't because I didn't try. I hunt from the ground and almost never from a static location. As a result, I take the best shot that presents itself, when it presents. My goal is to eat venison. For many years I only hunted with a bow and I hunted a lot. As a result I have taken many shots other than the preferred double lung. The ability to do this requires either a good knowledge of anatomy or a near certainty that you can track wounded game. As an example, I have shot a feeding doe with a bow from the rear, from the ground, with the intention of cutting the large artery inside the left leg with success. I have bow shot deer from the front quartering toward me with the only shot being low and between the chest and leg toward the rear hip. I once shot a doe facing me and crouching to leap when I was about ten feet away and put the arrow into the artery at the rear leg. I don't pretend to claim that all my kills have been clean but I have lost only four deer that I know of, a buck shot at contact range downward thru the chest where I could not find a blood trail, a good chest shot on a running buck where a thunderstorm hid the blood trail, a buck I tracked for two hours with a friend that we think was taken by other hunters, and a doe that I shot almost straight down thru the chest when she crawled into an old fence line and laid down a few feet away. Eventually, I found two of the bucks bones, the contact shot and the running shot later in the season. I have tracked many deer with success and I have learned that there are two occasions when you should not believe you can track an animal, When there is a good snowfall going on or when leaves are falling and hiding the trail. Now I hut mostly with a 30-06 and the rule still applies. Take the shot. This year I have taken two does that both presented less than perfect shots. One doe was quartering toward me and knew I was there. She was just deciding which way to run in heavy cover. I shot her behind her right shoulder and the bullet exited her left buttock near he anus. There was no blood trail because she bled out internally within 50 yards. It took me about 30 minutes of quartering and looking for blood to find he. The other doe presented only her head and a half shoulder and I pinned her front shoulders. Two years ago I shot a large eight point with my second shot as he was charging uphill toward where I was sitting on the ground. I had missed a moving shot a moment before, probably a deflected round and he was just trying to get away from the noise. By the time I picked up a sight picture and fired, he was less than 15 feet away and he dropped 5 feet in front of me. Because he was "bounding uphill" my front chest sight picture resulted in a heart shot that entered his chest below his heart and angled upward toward his butt. He almost would have stepped on me. Don't worry about losing the deer to another hunter. Take the shot and tell the story. [/QUOTE]
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