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Today it finally felt and looked like deer season! I walked into my blind an hour before legal shooting time and did not need my headlamp. With the snow on the ground it was easy to see my way. Mother nature turned on the lights and looking out of my blind I could see a virtual highway of tracks going past my blind on all sides. Some as close as six feet. The laneway into the farmhouse was crisscrossed with tracks in my headlights as I drove in . The deer are finally moving. A few days ago I walked all this bush and saw very little fresh sign. My fingers were crossed a buck would make an appearance today or even a Mule deer doe as I have a second antlerless Mulie tag still in my pack. This was the morning view that greeted me and then an hour into my sit as I am answering a text from my wife I look out the blind window as movement caught my peripheral vision to see a buck come into view 12 yards away. I set the phone down on my lap. the deer stopped and looked toward the blind then put his head down and continued on his path past the blind unconcerned or unaware of the danger in the blind. When his head was behind the tree between us I snapped the 270 to my shoulder, slid the safety off and touched a round off as soon as the crosshair hit the shoulder. I was going to let it pass in hopes of a larger buck but then my brain engaged and said "fill the freezer" as I heard my Grandfather's words in my head "antlers make thin soup"! The landowner whose land I hunt gave me a hand to haul out and load the deer in my truck.....:d
Will let things quiet down there for a few days then head back Saturday to see if my wife can fill her tag...

 
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Congrats nice deer. I have to ask why the shoulder at 12 yards?? or is that a western canada thing since so many are shot running. Here it is the heart and at 12 yards head
Just curious. My grandfather would be upset with me saying I wasted meat
Cheers
 
3macs1 said:
Congrats nice deer. I have to ask why the shoulder at 12 yards?? or is that a western canada thing since so many are shot running. Here it is the heart and at 12 yards head
Just curious. My grandfather would be upset with me saying I wasted meat
Cheers
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I squeezed off the instant the crosshair was on the shoulder as I was running out of room to swing the rifle through the half opened front window. I didn't have the right side window open to get to him through that side and he would have been in that position in about two more steps. It's the first time I ever shot one through the shoulder and likely the last. I don't like wasting meat either and a shoulder shot isn't my first choice.
 
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Londonshooter said:
The right thing to do though is just what you did. Head shots can go horribly wrong.
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that's for sure......I doubt I would ever take a head shot...

Be a bit low and shoot the bottom jaw off...great.. now it's running away to starve to death

You absolutely took the right shot. Nice shooting.
 
Londonshooter;[URL="tel:18443169" said:
18443169[/URL]]The right thing to do though is just what you did. Head shots can go horribly wrong.
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I would never take a head shot even at 12 yards. I usually put my vertical crosshair running parallel along the back of the leg and tuck the round in tight to the back of the shoulder through the rib cage and double lung them. Today was just snap the rifle to the shoulder, acquire shoulder in the scope and fire!
 
Londonshooter said:
The right thing to do though is just what you did. Head shots can go horribly wrong.
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At 12 yards with a rife and a scope I would say best spend more time at the range
Back in the day all my dad and grandfather in fact the entire camp of over 20 guys ever took was head shots and they took a hell of a lot more deer than I would ever take and never lost one I can remember
I have only taken 28 and lost one a heart shot that was found when it was too late to eat
To each their own
Cheers
 
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the spank said:
I squeezed off the instant the crosshair was on the shoulder as I was running out of room to swing the rifle through the half opened front window. I didn't have the right side window open to get to him through that side and he would have been in that position in about two more steps. It's the first time I ever shot one through the shoulder and likely the last. I don't like wasting meat either and a shoulder shot isn't my first choice.
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Understand. I figured something like that must have happened
take care
 
Londonshooter said:
The right thing to do though is just what you did. Head shots can go horribly wrong.
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Regarding the issue of head shots going terribly,or traumatically wrong.

About 20 years ago,one of our group members shot a running doe through the head ( as we were instructed to do by the camp leaders ) from a distance of about 50 yards.The dear fell immediately and the bragging over the radio started.When the hunt ended and we walked over to retrieve the deer about 90 minutes later,it suddenly jumped up and started flopping around,requiring a second finishing shot.

It turns out that the first shot had creased through the deers eyes,leaving the deer laying there blinded and no doubt suffering.

For me,it was horrific and it was the last time I hunted with the group.
 
3macs1 said:
At 12 yards with a rife and a scope I would say best spend more time at the range
Back in the day all my dad and grandfather in fact the entire camp of over 20 guys ever took was head shots and they took a hell of a lot more deer than I would ever take and never lost one I can remember
I have only taken 28 and lost one a heart shot that was found when it was too late to eat
To each their own
Cheers
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Only my opinion but I wouldn't use a head shot on a meat animal at all, the animal dies instantly and blood stops moving instantly, The meat will be full of blood, cutting the throat doesn't do any good, just drains a bit of blood from the vicinity of the cut . Double lung shot will keep the blood pumping until the heart starts to cavitate and gallons of blood pool harmlessly in the chest cavity.
 
Well a buddy in rural Hythe AB was about to shoot off the backyard bench after Christmas one year when he saw movement 200 yards a way down a treed fence line. Here comes this cow elk with her jaw blow off hanging like a Colombian necktie ,barely able to walk .A simple adjustment of the shooting bags and he put her out of her misery. The neck shot is another iffy proposition. I've done both but only from a solid improvised rest within my capabilities.No animals lost.
 
fingers284 said:
Only my opinion but I wouldn't use a head shot on a meat animal at all, the animal dies instantly and blood stops moving instantly, The meat will be full of blood, cutting the throat doesn't do any good, just drains a bit of blood from the vicinity of the cut . Double lung shot will keep the blood pumping until the heart starts to cavitate and gallons of blood pool harmlessly in the chest cavity.
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Simple question. How is livestock we eat killed and handled
Lots of different theory on this one
Cheers
 
3macs1 said:
Simple question. How is livestock we eat killed and handled
Lots of different theory on this one
Cheers
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Not sure if you're playing devils advocate here, but a quick google tells me that cattle for slaughter are stunned by some means to render unconscious, and then bled out. I've shot a deer in the head, and it seemed different than any that were heart or lung shot...
 
saskgunowner101 said:
Not sure if you're playing devils advocate here, but a quick google tells me that cattle for slaughter are stunned by some means to render unconscious, and then bled out. I've shot a deer in the head, and it seemed different than any that were heart or lung shot...
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Yes but bled out the exact same way, what bleeds on a deer more than a head wound and cut throat when we killed livestock we shot them with a 22 mag didnot have the gear they use today
Like I said to each their own
Cheers
Sorry Spank for going off track my apologies and I will stop
 
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