How much do you think wheat stubble effect a bullets POI.

Measure the distance between your POA and POI. Use that as a radius to draw a circle centered on your POA. Your shot, whether pulled, wind-blown, grass-deflected or a combination of these factors, could have just as easily landed anywhere in that circle as it did in the lungs. Aside from clean misses, what else is in that circle? Lots of crippling/wounding shots were possible and, since we can't determine what caused your miss, those crippling wounds were every bit as likely to happen as that lucky kill.

The simple fact is that you missed by a foot or more...it can happen to anyone...and it was sheer luck that the miss was still a killing hit. Explaining to us now what a crack sniper you are, or why a neck shot makes sense to you, just sounds silly.
 
Yes, stubble will deflect a bullet. I'd never have thought so unless I saw it: target shooting a 270win with 90gr varmint bullets. A twig maybe 3/32" diameter under two feet from the target was enough to displace the bullet.

55gr 223: target was sitting on the ground in wintertime. First time shooting the rifle so sighting it: five rounds hit low... so low as to clip a few inches of fluffy snow a couple feet before the target. All five bullets key-holed.
 
death-junky said:
A head shot and a neck shot are 2 very different things. There a huge margin for error doing a head shots and I will never do one. A neck shot you have an 6" kill zone. I aim for the center of the neck not neer the head and it's done me good for years. No wasted meat and the animal drops in its tracks. That being said if the animal is further then that 300 yards then I normally take a chest shot.
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Out of curiosity, why do you willingly aim for a smaller target when there is a much larger target behind the shoulder?
 
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