Lung, shoulder or head?

A trapper buddy was about to sight in his .338 win mag with a new lot of powder off his back porch one winter day when an odd looking cow elk appeared coming down the fence line. Poor thing had a [Columbian necktie] lower jaw shot off with the tongue hanging straight down and emaciated.The rifle slid from the bench onto the elk and it was put down.No doubt a temporary survivor of the late cow elk season. Now wolf bait.Harold
 
Boomer686 said:
Dumbest thing I have ever heard.

As I was taught by my father and am passing on to my kids....In the boiler room (heart / lung shot) is the most humane way to kill them. Intentionally shooting them anywhere else is pure BS and causes unnecessary suffering.

Have always had great success with good shot placement, never saw the real need for a headshot even though the opportunity was there.
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I'm going to suggest that you might want to study some anatomy of common game animals.... Punch the front shoulders and you will hit vitals. With the added benefit of not having to hunt for your animal after the shot.

Bullets matter more than anything else, choose an appropriate bullet and you won't lose a lot of meat. And some places, choosing a lung shot can mean loosing all four quarters, not just a bit of meat off of one or two.
And as Chuck and Gate have indicated, take any shot that you can drive a bullet through to vitals. Front, back, sideways, quartering, what have you. If I can reach vitals, I thump him.
But I generally try to break bones.
 
KodiakHntr said:
I'm going to suggest that you might want to study some anatomy of common game animals.... Punch the front shoulders and you will hit vitals. With the added benefit of not having to hunt for your animal after the shot.

Bullets matter more than anything else, choose an appropriate bullet and you won't lose a lot of meat. And some places, choosing a lung shot can mean loosing all four quarters, not just a bit of meat off of one or two.
And as Chuck and Gate have indicated, take any shot that you can drive a bullet through to vitals. Front, back, sideways, quartering, what have you. If I can reach vitals, I thump him.
But I generally try to break bones.
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The issue with the shoulder shot is that if you hit a bit too far forward, you get the brisket and a potentially wounded animal. Directly behind the shoulder leaves the most room for error and destroys the least amount of meat. But I realize this is the internet and everyone always hits exactly where they aim. ;)
 
:confused: Brisket is below the shoulder, how can the brisket be hit if the shoulder shot is too far forward?

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Not a fan of head shots. Took a elk years ago in the boiler room and when we got to him his lower jaw was hanging by tendins from a previous shot gone wrong and the flys /maggots were all over the wound. Didn't like head shots then and don't like them now. I know hunter ethics an all but that elk suffered days or weeks by the look of the wound.
 
I will never take a head shot. Most of the time the cross hairs are tight behind shoulder, and if a straight-on frontal shot presents itself........Kaboom!
 
bearkilr said:
The issue with the shoulder shot is that if you hit a bit too far forward, you get the brisket and a potentially wounded animal. Directly behind the shoulder leaves the most room for error and destroys the least amount of meat. But I realize this is the internet and everyone always hits exactly where they aim. ;)
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:confused: Shoulder is high and brisket is low. How is it possible to hit too far forward on the shoulder and hit the brisket?

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