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Given a broadside shot, what is your preferred shot on deer?
- Thread starter GFB
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Happy New Year Brother I shoot half way up the neck
Anywhere on the neck with a high velocity expanding bullet will punch the ticket.
Heart and lung shots are fine too, but just makes a bigger mess to clean up when processing the deer.
If everybody shot their deer in the neck my job would be immensely easier.
Head shots obviously are great too but VERY few hunters have the skill or understanding of their rifle to pull it off ethically, which to me is the most important part.
I recommend base of the neck, where the shoulders connect. You won’t damage much meat and you’ll for sure break the spine. It’s also nearly as big of a target as the vitals behind the shoulder are, unless you’re shooting bambi’s.
I see a ton of high shoulder shot advocates on FB pages and that’s a great way to drop your deer AND ruin your shoulders and half your backstrap in the same shot.
Head shots obviously are great too but VERY few hunters have the skill or understanding of their rifle to pull it off ethically, which to me is the most important part.
I recommend base of the neck, where the shoulders connect. You won’t damage much meat and you’ll for sure break the spine. It’s also nearly as big of a target as the vitals behind the shoulder are, unless you’re shooting bambi’s.
I see a ton of high shoulder shot advocates on FB pages and that’s a great way to drop your deer AND ruin your shoulders and half your backstrap in the same shot.
High shoulder shot is so talked about on the interwebz I figured it would have more votes.
Same here. I like to have all day if needed. I don't remember ever shooting one at the end of the day. I think if I did, I'd wait till morning to start tracking. Mark the spot and leave.
Actually I do remember at least one. 45 Colt rifle at 130yds, one shot. Dropped her in her tracks, complete pass through
Example of a neck shot vs “behind the shoulder”/gut shot from this morning.
Ya’ll tell me which one you’d rather eat lol.
Obviously I saw the ribs off of these and hose the crap out of them but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s been marinating like that on the inside against the tenderloins and backstrap for who knows how long it took the hunter to get it to me.
Ya’ll tell me which one you’d rather eat lol.
Obviously I saw the ribs off of these and hose the crap out of them but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s been marinating like that on the inside against the tenderloins and backstrap for who knows how long it took the hunter to get it to me.
Seems like an extreme example but point taken.
