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Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by OldSouth 
on 1/7/21 at 6:49 pm
on 1/7/21 at 6:49 pm
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0Where do you aim? Behind the shoulder and try to get both lungs and the heart? Or go for the high shoulder shot and hit the nerve bundle that drops them instantly?
I don’t have enough experience to have a strong opinion and I want to hear what y’all have to say.
I don’t have enough experience to have a strong opinion and I want to hear what y’all have to say.
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by bushwacker on 1/7/21 at 6:52 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 6:52 pm to OldSouthFor a trophy buck, anywhere i can hit vitals. The high shoulder shot is preferred if perfectly broadside and standing still.
For a doe, double lunger. same with any deer with my bow.
For a doe, double lunger. same with any deer with my bow.
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by Simmesport on 1/7/21 at 6:54 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 6:54 pm to OldSouth30-06 neck. Tracking is done
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by EveryoneGetsATrophy on 1/7/21 at 7:06 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 7:06 pm to OldSouthAll depends on your ability to shoot accurately whether it be with a gun or a bow. I shoot wall hangers with a gun in the shoulder. Wall hanger bucks with a bow just behind the shoulder Doe's at close range I shoot in the neck just above the shoulder.
Straight up the leg mid body with a rifle, same place but just behind the leg with a bow.
That gives me the most margin of error several inches either direction to miss my point of aim and still have a lethal shot.
That gives me the most margin of error several inches either direction to miss my point of aim and still have a lethal shot.
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re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by FishingTiger on 1/7/21 at 7:19 pm to greenbean
on 1/7/21 at 7:19 pm to greenbeanquote:
Neck shot with a 30.06, the drop instantly, never have tracked one
The only way I shoot them, no trailing or a complete miss.
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by SportTiger1 on 1/7/21 at 7:22 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 7:22 pm to OldSouthMid vitals I.e right behind should about 1/3 from the bottom
Too much room for error in neck shots. There is a LOT of space in the neck that wouldn't be fatal if something went wrong. Especially at any distance.
Too much room for error in neck shots. There is a LOT of space in the neck that wouldn't be fatal if something went wrong. Especially at any distance.
Grew up marsh hunting. Still despise tracking a deer since most of mine seem to be afternoon kills.
I was taught long ago "shoot em high, watch em lie. Shoot em low, watch em go." Frick tracking a deer, especially a big full rut buck thats all jacked up on adrenaline.
I was taught long ago "shoot em high, watch em lie. Shoot em low, watch em go." Frick tracking a deer, especially a big full rut buck thats all jacked up on adrenaline.
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by SportTiger1 on 1/7/21 at 7:26 pm to FishingTiger
on 1/7/21 at 7:26 pm to FishingTigerquote:
The only way I shoot them, no trailing or a complete miss.
I just don't get this line of thinking. On a mature buck, the neck diameter maybe 10-12" from top to bottom. About 3-4" of that is spine + nervous system.
The rest is muscle and esophagus. That's a slow miserable death.
When I look at a deer, I picture the vitals. No shot is the same. Bow or gun, they’re either quartering or broadside or straight on. The angle is always different. I picture the angle through the vitals before I squeeze that trigger. I hunt solely public, so sometimes they’re doing some trotting through the woods. In those instances, you put mid ways up, at the shoulder and send it. Pick your opening to put the crosshairs in. Don’t follow like you would a bird. Following a trotting deer results in trees with bullet holes in them.
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re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by Icansee4miles on 1/7/21 at 7:37 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 7:37 pm to OldSouthNeck shot on does. 100%
Horns, generally in the boiler room, right behind the point of the shoulder. Depending on angle, either lungs or heart, night, night.
Horns, generally in the boiler room, right behind the point of the shoulder. Depending on angle, either lungs or heart, night, night.
re: Whitetail rifle shot placement debate.Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt 
on 1/7/21 at 7:41 pm to OldSouth
on 1/7/21 at 7:41 pm to OldSouthPretty much anywhere in front of the last rib will do it. I generally want the bullet to break the offside leg. It works well for me. Grew up hunting in knee deep water where tracking isn't easy.
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