Finishing shots, follow up shots.

[senior]

Who's doing the shooting? The mayor of Flinch City?

Nice, you run out of real facts & resort to stuff like that?
Perhaps that's why you have no respect here.
Perhaps you'd like to challenge me to an internet shooting competition

Or are you gonna tell me you always wait to your game animals head is a expertly estimated 90* from your gun barrel!

Your a nothing more than a expert wannabe

 

[walksalot]

Nice, you run out of real facts & resort to stuff like that?
Perhaps that's why you have no respect here.
Perhaps you'd like to challenge me to an internet shooting competition

Or are you gonna tell me you always wait to your game animals head is a expertly estimated 90* from your gun barrel!

Your a nothing more than a expert wannabe [/

QUOTE]

Hit a nerve did I.

 

[Kevin R.]

As with most hunting, one shot is often all you get and maybe all the hunter knows they need.

With practice comes confidence, by practice you know the rifle and what the shooter is capable of.

It's dead when pulling the trigger.

So I watch it stumble, then fall.

No follow up shots required cause I trust my first shot.

AGREED!! If you have respect for the game your hunting you will, practice,practice,practice!!

It not always the caliber of gun, it's a good bullet and MOSTLY good shot placement!! IMO.

KR.

 

[walksalot]

Perhaps you'd like to challenge me to an internet shooting competition

When it comes to spray and pray shooting you will beat me hands down. There is no doubt in my mind you are the king. If you want a lesson or two in One Shot One Kill hunting we have some youngsters who have some time after school and wouldn't mind giving you a hand.

 

[sjemac]

I wonder how many head shot animals ran away with a broken jaw, and starved to death.

Probably not nearly as many as get gut shot and die of sepsis.

 

[Eagleye]

I am also quite negative about head shots, since practically every time I have been asked to help find a wounded animal, it has been because the would be "deadly" headshot was muffed in some way or other. One guy acually had the arrogance to inform me that he always takes head shots because it is either a complete miss or instant death! One young bull moose I followed up for a "head shooter" left half his dentition on the ground where he had been standing at the shot. I found him, alright, 2½ hours after the shot, laying down in a cool spot in deep timber. As he stood up, I saw his lower jaw dangling down like a bell. One quick shot through the lungs ended his misery. This moose was standing broadside at about 120 yards on the initial shot. The shooter had a rest, but still managed to miss the vitals in that mooses' head by a considerable amount. While heart/lung shots get muffed occasionally, I still think they are a considerably higher percentage shot than are head or neck shots. Regards, Eagleye.

 

[senior]

If you want a lesson or two in One Shot One Kill hunting we have some youngsters who have some time after school and wouldn't mind giving you a hand.

And you are one of them?
WALKSALOT..the new Captain Deadly, the internet expert

Complete acchole & strong candidate for the "Ignore list"

 

[canadaman30]

This year was a eye opener as the monster buck in my woods came marching out towards me and stopped at a rub about 60 yards broad side. Pulled the trigger(12 gauge slug) knocked him down where he stood. after about 15-20 seconds he tipped his head up gasping his last air, suddenly he picked himself up and marched off. I will never think an animal is dead until I'm standing over it. I would not have beleived it if I didn't see it. Blood was all over both sides of his tracks. Will go out in the Spring to try and recover the massive rack

 

[sealhunter]

If you have the ability, I'm all for the head shot.

As for follow ups and shooting til it's dead etc...

There are many thoughts on this. Animals shot with arrows are almost always left to expire. Personally, if the animal is hit and not dead, I believe in finishing it off as fast as possible.

 

[sealhunter]

It is now and always has been an unethical choice. And is without a doubt the most inhumane method of killing an animal cleanly

.

Perhaps not advoctaed or promoted for hunting animals, but...

saying it is the most inhumane method is completely inaacurate and actually wrong.

 

[sealhunter]

X2 bronco
Behind the ear... top of the neck... works for me. Sometimes its dark when you find em and a firearm is ilegal in many jurisdictions. A knife behind the ear works too but can be downright dangerous.

I can't believe you use ''the most inhumane method for killing an animal" to finish it off.

 

[sealhunter]

Man oh man, even this thread is full of foolishness..

Does anyone "really" know how an arrow kills?

Shock vs Blood loss and the connection

This certainly is not a holier than thou thread, ... but does have inaccuracies/misleading information/oppinion being passed on as though it is fact.

 

[74noots]

I am also quite negative about head shots, since practically every time I have been asked to help find a wounded animal, it has been because the would be "deadly" headshot was muffed in some way or other. One guy acually had the arrogance to inform me that he always takes head shots because it is either a complete miss or instant death! One young bull moose I followed up for a "head shooter" left half his dentition on the ground where he had been standing at the shot. I found him, alright, 2½ hours after the shot, laying down in a cool spot in deep timber. As he stood up, I saw his lower jaw dangling down like a bell. One quick shot through the lungs ended his misery. This moose was standing broadside at about 120 yards on the initial shot. The shooter had a rest, but still managed to miss the vitals in that mooses' head by a considerable amount. While heart/lung shots get muffed occasionally, I still think they are a considerably higher percentage shot than are head or neck shots. Regards, Eagleye.

X2
Not crazy about head shots, they're too easy to screw up!!!
also, I just don't like seeing broken heads for some reason.............don't know why

 

[74noots]

Perhaps you'd like to challenge me to an internet shooting competition

I'm the King of internet shooting!!!!!LOL!

 

[sjemac]

I cannot find a quote from any hunting or shooting professional that would advocate using a head shot as a high percentage shot in any circumstance. It is now and always has been an unethical choice.

Perfectly effective when done right. Perfectly ethical when done right. Sorry that you disagree, but you'll get over it...................................













or not.

 

[treebutcher]

I like body shots myself, if done well your animal is just as dead as a head shot. The real advantage is in target size.
It's a whole lot easier to close and finish an animal that is suffering from a body shot (even gut) than one with a jaw blown off.
The knife to the back of the head sounds like a good way to get hurt. Bullets don't cost as much as a broken leg. Each hunter has to make thier own choice on what is a ethical shot. Unrecovered wounded game makes good amo for the antihunters. My 2c

 

[Splatter]

It strikes me that the "headshot" debate is like the "long range" debate. For some shooters who are proficient, confident and willing to wait for just the right shot, either are ethical choices.
There are some "hunters" out there for which 75 metre, standing broadside shots should not be ethically taken.

 

[klaus enuff]

I was taught to (and do) put a knee on the neck to keep them down (A quick grab on the rack before you drop your knee down is practical). If you want to cut the throat you should think of it more as a stab from the side, not a slice on the front. I have had to do this on deer shot through the shoulders/spine that weren't going anywhere.

I would not be cheap and try to save a bullet over my safety, if I have to another shot to the brain stem ends everything instantly.

 

[joe m]

I cannot find a quote from any hunting or shooting professional that would advocate using a head shot as a high percentage shot in any circumstance. It is now and always has been an unethical choice. And is without a doubt the most inhumane method of killing an animal cleanly.

Not trying to pick on you Red, but I knew there are some profesional shooters who prefer head shots. I just remembered who & where.

A single shot to the head is the preferred method, and government regulations prevent the use of rimfire calibers. I found that the guys I met took pride in using quality equipment that left as little to chance as possible for a clean and painless kill.

An exerp from about half way down the page.
http://bullshooter.########.com/2006/03/professional-kangaroo-shooting-part-1.html
This is just one example of many I found on google saying this.

Another myth busted

 

[death-junky]

A good moto is Dont stop till it drops...