I stand hunt. I spot and stalk. I push bush. I used to track and bust. But I don't shoot at running deer. WALKING? Absolutely! Do I refrain from any idea of wounding an animal and not being able to find it? Not really. Why do I wait? Because I am lazy. I don't like tracking for hours and then dragging animals 2 km out of the woods if I can simply shoot them and have them drop within 50yds. HAVE I shot at running animals? Yep, but they were close. Try the track and bust method. You will get a great shot and the buck will be standing still, facing you, ready to fight, but you had better be in shape!!
How much to lead a running whitetail deer?
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He says I don't know what I am talking about and now probably you!! 
lead formulas!!???./.......LOL....funniest sh!t Ive ever heard, come from a so called "hunter"...shaking my head!..
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Growing up on a farm in Alberta, I learnt to shoot at running game shooting chicken stealing coyotes around the yard...it gets easier the more you do it. At 100 yards or less, I'm think I'm just as good at off hand shooting at a moving animal as compared to a stationary one. Mind you, the type of rifle you're using makes a difference...I find my Browning BAR or Win 100 to be great on moving game.
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if the OP has to ask how on an internet forum he definitely shouldn't even think about shooting at a running deer.
Neither should the other 20 "hunters" in his camp.
I practice shooting fast and at moving targets and very likely would never shoot at a running deer.
You need a lot of practice and then you wouldn't need to ask this question.
Neither should the other 20 "hunters" in his camp.
I practice shooting fast and at moving targets and very likely would never shoot at a running deer.
You need a lot of practice and then you wouldn't need to ask this question.
Without reading all the other responses. Try it out and you will figure it out, after doing it for 20 years I can kill them on the run, mostly.
They never run 90 degrees from you so the math doesnt work. You will develop a feel or it. the first few you will miss, the next you will hit int the hips/ass. the next are gut shot. after that you are in the chest.Its not pretty but thats what you asked for, i now hit 70% in the chest, the rest are elsewhere.
They never run 90 degrees from you so the math doesnt work. You will develop a feel or it. the first few you will miss, the next you will hit int the hips/ass. the next are gut shot. after that you are in the chest.Its not pretty but thats what you asked for, i now hit 70% in the chest, the rest are elsewhere.
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let him run, there will always be others.
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I agree with the posters who say it can be done successfully.
FWIW, a running shot is the least desirable shot one can take, period!
I have shot several moose on the run, all inside 75 yards but one, [a calf at about 140.]
I shot elk on the run in two consecutive years, both one-shot kills. [100 yards and 125 yards]
But in all fairness, I usually will pass on running animals that are not wounded.
I finished off a wounded muley doe at well over 200 yards....she was quartering away, and I GOT LUCKY with that shot.
The guy that was with me was duly impressed, but I knew the truth, lol.
A number of hunters of my acquaintance [myself included] used to play a game called "Rifleman's Rodeo"
In this game, the 5 animal size targets are pop-ups or runners, and practice definitely helps.
I know that in my case, I gut shot a lot of those targets until I learned how much I really had to lead them.
Then I started scoring 9's and 10's [lethal hits] with regularity.
One club had a running fox at 250 yards, and he was HARD to hit at all. [ran pretty fast]
As I said, Practice is a key element, but it is hardly fair, IMHO, to use live game for such practice.
Regards, Dave.
FWIW, a running shot is the least desirable shot one can take, period!
I have shot several moose on the run, all inside 75 yards but one, [a calf at about 140.]
I shot elk on the run in two consecutive years, both one-shot kills. [100 yards and 125 yards]
But in all fairness, I usually will pass on running animals that are not wounded.
I finished off a wounded muley doe at well over 200 yards....she was quartering away, and I GOT LUCKY with that shot.
The guy that was with me was duly impressed, but I knew the truth, lol.
A number of hunters of my acquaintance [myself included] used to play a game called "Rifleman's Rodeo"
In this game, the 5 animal size targets are pop-ups or runners, and practice definitely helps.
I know that in my case, I gut shot a lot of those targets until I learned how much I really had to lead them.
Then I started scoring 9's and 10's [lethal hits] with regularity.
One club had a running fox at 250 yards, and he was HARD to hit at all. [ran pretty fast]
As I said, Practice is a key element, but it is hardly fair, IMHO, to use live game for such practice.
Regards, Dave.
There's some folks in this thread that should probably give up hunting.
Have enough respect for the animals you kill to take as clean a shot as you can.... Or pass. I don't think it's an opinion, it's hunter ethics, anything else makes you sound like one of those redneck hillbilly "I'm a man" hunters that the media and anti hunters love to use as examples of the "typical" hunter.
Have enough respect for the animals you kill to take as clean a shot as you can.... Or pass. I don't think it's an opinion, it's hunter ethics, anything else makes you sound like one of those redneck hillbilly "I'm a man" hunters that the media and anti hunters love to use as examples of the "typical" hunter.
