best shot placement for slow cast on deer

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wondered what some of you guys might prefer when shootin Deer with slow Cast projectiles , like pistol cartridges in Lever guns, an slow lever guns, an large bore centrefire rounds utilising cast projies....

The way i look at it, theres a few areas to aim, with different outcomes initially.but end up the same.

1. Double Lung
2. Heart / armpit
3. Neck
4. Double shoulder
5. High shoulder /Spine


Whats your preference here an whats the jam behind it?

for example sake, what rifle you totin , big fat an slow, etc.

Cheers
 
30-30 flat nose hard cast 150g. The intention is always double lung. They bleed out quick, not much tracking needed. Neck or spine shot would likely work well too at the risk of a flesh wound or gut shot.
 
have been useing .44 mag and 45/70 for a number of years both work well with heart or lung shot. cast my own bullets hardness about 14bhn as recomended in lyman caST bullet handbook. hollow points in .44 flat points in 45/70 good luck
 
My experience is mostly with cast bullets in muzzleloaders.

What I found was if you want to drop them fast belt them through the shoulders, and if you wanted to look for them shoot ‘em through the lungs.
 
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45-70, for elk and moose. I shoot hard cast 405 gr bullets..generally high shoulder shot for me. I try to keep them from getting further into the thick stuff.
30-30 for deer, I shoot a big fat meplate 160gr cast bullet. If in more open area double lung. If in thicker stuff high shoulder. If I jump them from the thicket....somewhere in the front end before they get out of range...
 
obsessed1b said:
45-70, for elk and moose. I shoot hard cast 405 gr bullets..generally high shoulder shot for me. I try to keep them from getting further into the thick stuff.
30-30 for deer, I shoot a big fat meplate 160gr cast bullet. If in more open area double lung. If in thicker stuff high shoulder. If I jump them from the thicket....somewhere in the front end before they get out of range...
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sounds realistic ! :)
 
double lung for me for two reasons heart area is a smaller target to plan on hitting with certainty with slugs that dont always go were you planned so double lung is a bigger target area with a 99% certainty of hitting.

second reason is I have never had a big slow slug remain in a deer and blood loss out both sides is a given so far and meat damage is non existent with rib shots where no shoulder was hit. I have never been in a hurry with a cast bullet shot and will wait until both front shoulders are ahead of the rib area I plan on hitting. As far as the comments on having to retrieve the animal from parts unknown with lung shots, Of the dozen or more deer that I have cast shot, I have never had a cast slug lung shot deer go more than 10 steps. Big long cast slugs do not mushroom at our used velocities but they do bend and start to tumble most of the time (round hole going in but have often noticed keyhole hole in off-side ribcage) so the wound channel bleeds a lot of blood in a hurry.

The last reason I use lung shots exclusively is the amount of blood pumped by the heart into wound /chest cavity when the animal is dying....no need to even consider cutting the throat as all the blood is already out of the meat as much as will come out even with a throat cut hung animal.
 
fingers284 said:
double lung for me for two reasons heart area is a smaller target to plan on hitting with certainty with slugs that dont always go were you planned so double lung is a bigger target area with a 99% certainty of hitting.

second reason is I have never had a big slow slug remain in a deer and blood loss out both sides is a given so far and meat damage is non existent with rib shots where no shoulder was hit. I have never been in a hurry with a cast bullet shot and will wait until both front shoulders are ahead of the rib area I plan on hitting. As far as the comments on having to retrieve the animal from parts unknown with lung shots, Of the dozen or more deer that I have cast shot, I have never had a cast slug lung shot deer go more than 10 steps. Big long cast slugs do not mushroom at our used velocities but they do bend and start to tumble most of the time (round hole going in but have often noticed keyhole hole in off-side ribcage) so the wound channel bleeds a lot of blood in a hurry.

The last reason I use lung shots exclusively is the amount of blood pumped by the heart into wound /chest cavity when the animal is dying....no need to even consider cutting the throat as all the blood is already out of the meat as much as will come out even with a throat cut hung animal.
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Solid points mate
 
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