The efficient killer

[Stephen Borud]

Rick those high shoulder spine shots are totally intentional. Those guys want the WOW factor and they don't want to track the animal after walking for hours to get where the animal was shot.

[Dave Roelle]

Stephen:

I have a "GOTO" piece in Modern centerfire, Vintage centerfire, Shotgunning (depending on the game) and Archery when i was shooting (shoulder surgery stopped me flinging arrows)

I can't put my finger on the WHY of this, familiarity ? confidence ? efficiency i really don't know----what i do know is that each gets the job done when i do my part and i get HUGE SATISFACTION when i use them.

Have a safe fun Christmas everyone

Dave

[powderburner]

I notice that if you hit them in the ribcage with a hi velocity round and the lungs jelly they take their last step , heart shot deer always seem to run,big slow bullets seem to anchor them pretty quick if hit in the lungs , just from what I have seen,

[Kurt]

Dave I understand the shoulder repair and drawing a bow. I have a 6" scar on my right shoulder for pulling the tendon back up and getting it tied back on. After rehab and by the time fall came around I started to get back to the 60# recurve and the 80# compound it was tough even with my 40# recurve drawing it back. The hunting bow, especially the compound my shoulder now pops loud enough that it will get the attention of the close deer. To me it sounds like a cork gun going off.

Dean I shot a buff two years ago and lost the sights and made a high hit that hit the top of the lung and the little bull went down. It hit the rib and it must have jarred the spine enough that made him collapse but he got back up and staggered into the herd that surrounded him and I could not get a second shot and the next opening he acted like he was not hit. I made another snap shot because the heard started to run and he was in the clear. When the shot broke I thought I shot below his chest from the sand I saw kick up and he just never acted like he was hit. When we caught up with the herd we saw 3-4 cows trailing behind just cresting a hill I knew he was on the ground and those straggling cows left him behind. I could not put three fingers between those two shots high in the ribs when he was hanging.
The one before that one I just missed the heart high and he went down inside 50 yards. The one this fall I put three through the mid lungs and it took another one behind the ear to get him on the ground. All where good shots 3" apart.
My next will be a frontal head or behind the ear. Even the young two year old are tough to put down with a lung shot so they don't run around after getting hit.

Here is the hanging halve. shots went behind the heart but still in the lungs


A high rib cage shot they take a long time to bleed out even with a complete pass through.

Kurt

[Dave Roelle]

Durn nice shootin Kurt !!!!!!!!!
I really miss flinging sharp sticks but it just not in the cards anymore----3 ripped tendons and a detached bicep finished that up-----oddly recoil isn't a problem but stress and strain is.

Have fun safe Christmas Sir

Dave