coup de grâce

[Scott_N]

coup de grâce

I was curious what you guys do when you don't make a kill shot on your animal? I usually try for a neck shot if possible if my first shot is off, it doesn't waste a lot of meat and usually puts the animal out of it's suffering right away. My hunting partner broke the legs on a mule deer doe this last weekend with a bad shot and put the animal down with a head shot. The results were not pretty.

Some guys will wait to see if the animal will expire, but I personally try to put the animal down ASAP because I don't like to see them suffer any longer than necessary. I do realize that sometimes animals will bed down and expire a short time later, and can understand why bow hunters would give the animal a half hour or so. What do you do when your shot doesn't work out like you had planned? I suppose the terrain makes a difference too.

 

[dinsdale]

Hypothetically , a guy was hunting and shot a large doe just at dusk and hit the spine.The guy came and got the other members of the hunting party.
When they got back, the doe started thrashing about again. Bolt apparently just severed the spine.

One member of the party drew his bow and shot the doe through the heart despite it being after dark now.

What this group did was technically illegal and completely the right thing to in my eyes.

Hypothetically of course.

 

[srt4u2nv]

I knife thrust to the heart would be the ticket for me I'm not into blowing animals heads off.

 

[sheephunter]

Heart shot or knife thrust straight down at the base of the skull.

 

[dinsdale]

The hypothetical guy wanted to get nowhere near a thrashing does hooves.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

I think so long as you are despatching wounded game no CO would bother you. Plus you have a half hour after sunset assuming this hypothetical situation happened in Ontario.

 

[KodiakII]

prefer to keep away from thrashing hooves myself! Heard too many stories (myth or not?) about guys being castrated or killed. Last big buck I dispatched was at close range with a shot to the base of the skull.

 

[archie_james_c]

The hypothetical guy wanted to get nowhere near a thrashing does hooves.

Word dawg...

Im not a fan of being hooved or ass-forked by a bull myself so...a close range head or heart shot does the trick 9 out of 10 times...if there that concerned afterwards give the throat a slice before getting too comfy around it...my opinion...

 

[archie126]

Head shot.

 

[sealhunter]

Head shot

 

[sheephunter]

Just to throw a twist into things....what about if you want to save the cape?

 

[sealhunter]

Well I'm not a cape saver so I don't know what would ruin one for you.
I'm assuming if a guy can handle one hole in the Cape for trophy, he should be able to handle two for mercy.
Animal before Cape.

 

[sheephunter]

Well I'm not cape saver so I don't know what would ruin one for you.
I'm assuming if a guy can handle one hole in the Cape for trophy, he should be able to handle two for mercy.
Animal before Cape.

Why would you have one to start with? I always shoot shoulder or heart/lungs when hunting for horns. If the shot isn't fatal I'm not going to add a small entrance hole and a huge exit hole to the cape by doing a close range neck shot!

 

[archie_james_c]

Why would you have one to start with? I always shoot shoulder or heart/lungs when hunting for horns. If the shot isn't fatal I'm not going to add a small entrance hole and a huge exit hole to the cape by doing a close range neck shot!

How would YOUUUUUU save the cape and still put the animal out ?

 

[sheephunter]

How would YOUUUUUU save the cape and still put the animal out ?

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[sealhunter]

See, there ya go, I know little about it.
I thought you meant rugs, not just the bit used for a head mount.

I guess I'd shoot it in the eye.

But even if if this is the type of hunting your doing and you wanted a head mount, I'd still say animal before cape.

 

[sealhunter]

Heart shot or knife thrust straight down at the base of the skull.

I'm interested to know how many times you have used the knife thrust in your hunting experiences, and how fast the animal died, and if it only took one thrust.

 

[sheephunter]

I guess I'd shoot it in the eye.

Ya, there'd be no exit hole from that.....lol

Not sure why you draw a line between saving the cape and allowing the animal to suffer........I say animal first too but not at the expense of the cape on a trophy animal.

 

[sheephunter]

I'm interested to know how many times you have used the knife thrust in your hunting experiences, and how fast the animal died, and if it only took one thrust.

More than I can count on the three fingers I have left from doing it......lol

Actually it's as quick and effective method as there is....if you know where to aim, it takes one easy push.

 

[troutseeker]

.22 to te back of the head. Pinprick in hide, no exit hole. Always carry the .22 pistol for that purpose! Duh, I forgot this was Canada...