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Whitetail Deer Hunting Shot Placement

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[sgt_zim]

Thanks for these, Jerome. My daughter's first real deer hunt is coming up. It'll be useful for her.

 

[Hogpatrol]

NO, NO, NO, a thousand times NO. Put that bullet up four inches and back four inches from the leg-belly intersection. Double lunger, they can't breathe, they can't run and they die quick. Aim for the shoulder, they twitch and you've got a runner. Seen it more times than I want to remember, mostly by once a year at the range paper plate shooters. Shaky off hand too. Arrows and bolts will bounce off or stick in that shoulder and then you have another runner.

 

[Hogpatrol]

At angle shots, aim a little aft of the opposite front leg.

 

[Upton O. Good]

The “elbow” is a good reference point for the location of the heart, I’ve used it to kill a lot of deer and also in taking direct cardiac puncture blood samples.

 

[tigris115]

I must say that as a 3D modeler, these shot palcement diagrams are incredibly useful for anatomy. Thanks

 

[tedthorn]

NO, NO, NO, a thousand times NO. Put that bullet up four inches and back four inches from the leg-belly intersection. Double lunger, they can't breathe, they can't run and they die quick. Aim for the shoulder, they twitch and you've got a runner. Seen it more times than I want to remember, mostly by once a year at the range paper plate shooters. Shaky off hand too. Arrows and bolts will bounce off or stick in that shoulder and then you have another runner.

I hate pounding a bullet through the liver. If routinely blows the stomach up just from the shock. If you shoot meat deer and gut 15 or 20 a year you don't want anyone going as far back as you mention

 

[tedthorn]

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At angle shots, aim a little aft of the opposite front leg.

That heart location is way to far back

 

[Hogpatrol]

That heart location is way to far back

I tire of tracking bad shoulder shots real quick. Bag the meat, I want them down asap. I'm too old to follow meager blood trails. Shoot 'em any way you want. Besides, I don't eat the liver or heart.

 

[JHT]

I tire of tracking bad shoulder shots real quick. Bag the meat, I want them down asap. I'm too old to follow meager blood trails. Shoot 'em any way you want. Besides, I don't eat the liver or heart.

@Hogpatrol, I'm curious what calibers you are using. Your experience seems to be the direct opposite of mine where shoulder shots anchor them.
Respectfully,
JHT

 

[JHT]

NO, NO, NO, a thousand times NO. Put that bullet up four inches and back four inches from the leg-belly intersection. Double lunger, they can't breathe, they can't run and they die quick. Aim for the shoulder, they twitch and you've got a runner. Seen it more times than I want to remember, mostly by once a year at the range paper plate shooters. Shaky off hand too. Arrows and bolts will bounce off or stick in that shoulder and then you have another runner.

I've just reread this post. If you are talking bow hunting then I agree it is best to hit behind the shoulder and not in it.

 

[Hogpatrol]

@Hogpatrol, I'm curious what calibers you are using. Your experience seems to be the direct opposite of mine where shoulder shots anchor them.
Respectfully,
JHT

Presently using a smokeless muzzleloader pushing a .40 caliber 200 gr SST at 2700 fps. Double lungers with that or the archery and they either drop or go less than 50 yards. The lungs present a larger, more forgiving lethal target. Have see more than one with a front leg dangling from a misplaced shoulder shot.