Meat wast from bad shooting.

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.I read of excessive blood shot from close shots, especially from a bullet travelling faster than 3000 fps.
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Don’t shoot them where these guys do. A couple of shots you can’t tell, but counting the archery shots there’s only maybe 5 good shots. The rest is some of the crappiest shooting I’ve ever seen. I would be in-bear-assed to admit to them let alone put it up for all to see.

https://youtu.be/sWwG_Fyg71s
 
Ditto on shot placement.

I've shot many deer with high speed bullets from a .300 Winchester Magnum. The solution is not to hit meat, but the heart lung area.
 
Smokinyotes said:
Looked to me that most were shot through the lungs.
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Meh. I couldn't be bothered to watch 20 minutes of congratulations and thank you's. Y'know, the Highlights! The first three or so minutes looked OK to me. If they are outfitters, they gotta take (and deal with) whoever pays the bills, eh?

I learned a hard lesson on shot placement, on a buck and a doe that I took.

I thought the buck was farther away, so I held a bit higher. Spined the bugger. Dead, fast. But messed up a LOT of prime eats!

The doe, she watched the buck go down, and stood, staring at him. I aimed a bit lower...
 
My BIL uses a 300Rum 180gn bullet for everything, it kills for sure, but the last two moose he shot while I was on the same trip had lots of meet lost, both shot were well placed into the heart lungs area but just hitting ribs in and out and you loose almost the entire side of ribs to blood shot… I like big heavy bullet that travel below 2600fps…
 
Ye Olde Texas Heartshot @ 13:15
Camera cut before you see it dragging its ass-end around like old perverts dog on Family Guy.
 
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Poor Bullet placement should never happen but if one hunts long enough it will for one reason or another. Best to learn from it an strive to never let it happen again.

Shot up (Bloodshot) parts, Bones and anything not used by the Hunter should be left in the Bush this way it is never "wasted" quite the contrary, it will help other Critters to survive that much better. It is only wasted If one disposes of such parts in the Landfill.

Cheers
 
The worst bloodshot meat I have ever seen was from a buck that I shot in the head at 330 yard. I saw him fold instantly so a started to walk back to the truck instead of going to the deer. About an hour later I got back to the buck and field dressed him. I thought the meat was fine at that point since every thing inside the body cavity was nice and clean.

When I got him home I skinned him out and let it hang a few days since it was rifle season and a good temp in the shop to let it hang.

When I began butchering, there was blood clots all throughout the meat. Like literally everywhere. I had to trim so much of it that I ended up doing all burger and even it had a bit of an off taste to it.

I always figured the the central nervous system shot shut his respiratory system down super fast and he never had a chance to properly bleed out. I guess in retrospect I should have went to get the deer before the truck and slit his throat and field dress him but I can't see all the blood draining from his system if his heart is done beating.

On another note, all of the deer I've shot in the heart lung area with an arrow have all been excellent eating. I guess they empty their system of blood during the typically short sprint after the shot.
 
savagelh said:
The worst bloodshot meat I have ever seen was from a buck that I shot in the head at 330 yard. I saw him fold instantly so a started to walk back to the truck instead of going to the deer. About an hour later I got back to the buck and field dressed him. I thought the meat was fine at that point since every thing inside the body cavity was nice and clean.

When I got him home I skinned him out and let it hang a few days since it was rifle season and a good temp in the shop to let it hang.

When I began butchering, there was blood clots all throughout the meat. Like literally everywhere. I had to trim so much of it that I ended up doing all burger and even it had a bit of an off taste to it.

I always figured the the central nervous system shot shut his respiratory system down super fast and he never had a chance to properly bleed out. I guess in retrospect I should have went to get the deer before the truck and slit his throat and field dress him but I can't see all the blood draining from his system if his heart is done beating.

On another note, all of the deer I've shot in the heart lung area with an arrow have all been excellent eating. I guess they empty their system of blood during the typically short sprint after the shot.
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YUp never head shoot something your going to eat, it dies instantly and blood flow stops Cutting the throat on anything that isnt hung as its dying wont do much good, a bit of blood from the juggler will run out before the clotting process starts but essentially the rest of the blood in the muscles still has no outlet until cut into and clotting has started by then. The only shot that kills quickly and allows lots of blood release is a double lung shot that the still beating heart pumps the chest cavity full.
 
I am not sure how well this will work in this video but looks like they are using the same principle "Electrostimulation"

Perhaps someone in this field can elaborate more on this topic.

 
I am not a fan of a shoulder shot. Rib cage trough and trough.
Minimum meat damage and they bleed out well.

Big slow bullets ruin way less meat.
 
fingers284 said:
YUp never head shoot something your going to eat, it dies instantly and blood flow stops Cutting the throat on anything that isnt hung as its dying wont do much good, a bit of blood from the juggler will run out before the clotting process starts but essentially the rest of the blood in the muscles still has no outlet until cut into and clotting has started by then. The only shot that kills quickly and allows lots of blood release is a double lung shot that the still beating heart pumps the chest cavity full.
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Around here, all domestic animals that are used for food eg. pigs, cows, are always head shot and immediately after are ‘chest stuck’ in order to bleed out. So instead of a blanket statement to never shoot in the head if you intend to consume, rather if you cannot get there within (I think regulation slaughterhouse standard is within 45 seconds) then I wouldn’t recommend head shots
 
hunter7mmRM said:
Around here, all domestic animals that are used for food eg. pigs, cows, are always head shot and immediately after are ‘chest stuck’ in order to bleed out. So instead of a blanket statement to never shoot in the head if you intend to consume, rather if you cannot get there within (I think regulation slaughterhouse standard is within 45 seconds) then I wouldn’t recommend head shots
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When I slaughter my pigs in the fall it’s head shot and a stab to the Jugular.
When processing you can tell how well they bleed out.

Some 3rd world countries actually just slit the animal and let it pump itself dry.
 
the worst i have ever seen was with a 9.3x74r on a roe deer in a driven hunt. the bullet hit the shoulder but exploded and schrapnelled all inside all edible meat ...
 
hunter7mmRM said:
Around here, all domestic animals that are used for food eg. pigs, cows, are always head shot and immediately after are ‘chest stuck’ in order to bleed out. So instead of a blanket statement to never shoot in the head if you intend to consume, rather if you cannot get there within (I think regulation slaughterhouse standard is within 45 seconds) then I wouldn’t recommend head shots
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I am definitely not a Headshot type Hunter primarily for reasons of accidentally hitting the lower Jaw which could in all likelihood result in a bolted never to be found Animal dying of Starvation.

However your Statement is excellent and certainly another point to consider for the "Headshot" practicing Hunters.

Thank You & Cheers
 
Interesting points on the effects of headshots and blood shot meat. I’ve shot 2 animals in the head. One cow moose and a whitetail buck. I didn’t have any blood shot meat.
 
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