My Deer Shot

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Made this standing shot on a White Tail from about 60 yards using a .30-06 with a 168 gr Nosler Ballistic Silver Tip (54.0 gr of H4350). I was aiming for the upper neck. The shot ended it's life real quick.

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Tex Critter said:
Supercub, nice optimism, keep it up!
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You want "optimism"? Go watch Barney. "Reality" better describes my posting.

Neck/head shots are at best ..... IFFY! In my youth, I once lost a deer shot in that manner. I know it suffered and later died. It's all fun till that happens.

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i'm with supercub on this one

last second twitch or movement and you have a wounded deer hauling ass through the brush

i'll stick to aiming for the lungs



grats on the deer regardless, will be tastey

my season doesnt start for another two or so weeks :(
 
Krazed said:
i'm with supercub on this one

last second twitch or movement and you have a wounded deer hauling ass through the brush

i'll stick to aiming for the lungs



grats on the deer regardless, will be tastey

my season doesnt start for another two or so weeks :(
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My deer hunting season is now over. I have filled all 3 of my white tail tags. I can buy 3 mule deer tags, but I don't care for the meat. From here on in, it will be grouse and varmints.
 
Here's another thumbs down on neck shots. Quite a good chance of miffing it and then the regrets come. Take high [heart-lung] percentage shots, they are always effective. Eagleye.
 
My grandfather used to feed his mother and brothers by hunting. The only gun they had was a .22LR single shot so a headshot was the only way to bring food home for the family (back in the early to late 40's). Right through his life he made more headshots than anything else and not one of those was a wounded deer in the 55 years he hunted. He wanted the quickest way to kill an animal and not have to worry about tracking it.

Now granted some of his shots were at distances where a headshot isn't very likely and took the heart/lungs shot but he generally tried to get close enough for the headshot. In fact there were only two wounded deer my grandfather ever had to track down and those were both due to taking heart/lung shots and instead having the shot too far forward or backwards.

Was he right or was he wrong? I cant really say although my family grew up on wild meat because of him and his shooting.

Under 100 yards on a standing target with any decently shooting rifle with someone who knows said rifle and knows their shooting ability....

The headshot I took on a deer just this year was sub 100 yards and the deer was looking right at me so I knew there was very little chance of that bullet only wounding said deer. That bullet went into the head and took out the brain and the spine.

Personally I think some people need to be a lot less critical. There have been many hunters who have aimed for the heart/lungs and instead took out a leg or the shot went a little too far back and then had to go tracking a wounded animal. Every hunter has had at least one bad shot in their life (if you haven't you are either lying, haven't been hunting for long, or it just hasn't happened yet but it will).

But seriously if you don't like it then don't reply.
 
SuperCub said:
If the bullet doesn't hit and break the spinal cord and only passes through muscle, the animal will suffer. There is a lot of room for error in these shots as the spine is small compared to the whole neck in size.


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But if you hit the trachea or Jugular that animal will still go down just the same as shooting it in the lungs will it not?

But yes missing those and the spinal cord is a wounding shot.

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