Well Placed Shot

[Ralph]

#7505

I’m probably going to need some help with my thoughts by some who can express in writing better than I before I get this said.

I used the expression, and it’s used a lot, “that’ll work” or whatever concluded “with a well placed shot”. Is it not the objective with anything that we use in our pursuit of taking animals, “a well placed shot”? But I think sometimes it sounds like we’re telling a person “Well, that equipment is good enough, but this bigger, badder will do better”. Not my intentions whatsoever and I think not others either but I think the thoughts lay out there.

A 40# bow with a sharp broadhead placed in the heart/lung area will kill as quickly as a 70# bow with the same shot. A wound with either equipment is a wound. We’re not talking sufficient energy here to even consider knockdown power like perhaps with a high powered rifle.

Not trying to cause trouble or stir anything up, it just occurred to me that sometimes our words and thinking may be misconstrued. Like I said earlier, I can’t always get out what I’m thinking through the end of my fingers!

Like Reese Field told me once, referring to instinctive shooting “It’s simple but it ain’t always so easy”. Kinda works on what I’m trying to say at times.

[Stumpkiller]

#62795

I understand just what you’re saying. I tried – for a while – to master a 70# recurve. It spit arrows out with blazing speed; but not always where I intended. In heavy clothes or from odd body postures even worse. I’m hovering around 50# now with my favored hunting bows and the deer still fall to a shot in the lungs.

It all depends on “a well placed shot” regardless of the bow’s (and hunter’s) strength.

[horserod]

#63988

Maybe it would sound better if……”A man has to know his limits” I know that it “Flies Straight” for me! Bullseye 🙂

[Wexbow]

#12665

A “killing shot” or “shot in the kill zone” probably doesn’t sound as palatable to our non-hunting brethren ❓

[William Warren]

#12938

R2,

I agree, even the phrase “knockdown power” is a well worn misnomer even in the firearms arena. At the risk of insulting my fellow sportsmen who may disagree, there is no such thing, only a phrase coined by marketing folks and gun writers of yore to generate sales.

A wound channel is a wound channel. Arrow weight and broadhead type, width, etc probably plays bigger role than bow weight.

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