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If you tried to get a deer out of here whole, ( which you can’t ) there would be nothing left but mangled meat.
Some Bowhunters don’t hunt corn fields, probable because theirs none around, lol
We are around 12 miles back in the high country, I’m a boner-outer.8)
Dr. Ed Ashby wrote: From the photos ‘King’ posted it looks like there are some folks shooting arrow setups with which they should also avoid even slightly quartering away shots; which brings us right back to the capabilities of the individual AND the equipment he/she chooses to hunt with dictating what shot angles are acceptable.
Ed
Hi Doc. looking at the 2 BIONIC deer with arrows in them, both look to have only struck a rib as there are no other bones around there.
As I look at the shot angles, most hunters would of took that shot angle, the problem was lack of PENETRATION, PENETRATION through a RIB
Both you and I know poopoo happens in the REAL World, if I hunted in NARNIA,
I could pretend that I never miss what I shoot at…..
I could pretend that all of the deer I shoot at stand flat footed waiting for my arrow to get there…….
I could pretend that I have never lost an animal I hit with an arrow…….
I could pretend that I am the most ethical hunter of all, and all others, do not have my high standards.
The truth is NARNIA is a fairytale.
Hi MontanaFord, glad to here you hunt on your feet also, I was just pointing out, vary few hunters ever have the shot that the diagram depicts, that shot is from about 2 feet off of the ground and flat broadside.
In the real world, I would guess there is not 10 bowhunter on here who have ever had that shot, and I might be one of them.
I had dug a pit blind on a saddle under a oak tree, I called the stand the “jacuzzi stand” because my head was just above the ground and I cut out a seat in the side of the pit just like a jacuzzi.
As you can see in this pic, the shot is right in his heart angling slightly up ward.
Here is another one of those bionic deer, this shot is even farther back in softer tissue.
The truth of the matter is deer are tough, and have a vary strong will to live.
As can be seen from these pic’s, shot placement is only “ONE” ingredient to the success of a clean kill.
Apparently both of the bow hunters made good shots, with bad equipment, there shots where both killing shots, there equipment failed, the broadhead failed to penetrate to a depth that would make for a clean kill.
EQUIPMENT FAILED NOT SHOT PLACEMENT.
The arrow in this doe looks to only be in the rib cage, also the arrow looks like it was shot at a quartering away angle.
I know that the DNA of does hasn’t changed over the last 50 years, then how is this bionic doe able to take such a well placed shot?
MontanaFord wrote: I was able to find a well-drawn diagram of a whitetail deer’s anatomy. If you look at it, you can see that the shoulder blade is actually quite high on the deer. Basically clear up against the spine. Who’s going to shoot that high on purpose anyway? So by aiming farther forward than the crease behind the shoulder, WHY NOT aim farther forward and put your point of aim closer to the center of the vital mass? Here’s the diagram. Let’s see if it’ll actually work for me or not.
Montanaford, did you look at the pic you posted, do you hunt out of a pit blind, the angle of that deer is from about 2 feet off the ground to have that shot angle, most of the whitetail wouldbes hunt from trees.
This shot might be a little more realistic, this is where I want more than I need.
Happy new year Dave, well this one was still good, he was about 150lbs, as they move up on the scale, they can get rough, mostly from the hormones.
I give’um the smell test, if they smell rank! they usually are, if they smell ( not bad ) there usually good.
For the best eaters under 100lb sow’s.
The thing about hogs are, they are so prolific they move into a nuisance animal real quick, as our Texas brothers are experiencing, they have declared all out war on them.
Once hogs have a foot hold in an area, and there is brush for them to hide/escape into, you can hardly remove them.
The nature conservancy ( an animal rights group ) spent 12 million dollars to eradicate the hogs on Santa Cruz Island, the only way they could do it, was to section the Island off with hog prof fences and kill every thing in that section then move to the next.
So for the price of a hog tag ( California makes you pay for everything ) you can take as many as you want.
I’m just a servant of the people, doing my part to keep the pig population in balance 🙄
This one was 189lbs at the butcher with no head, hide or guts, that puts him right around 300 and he was vary tasty, however he was feeding in the alfalfa fields.
I rarely if ever take them out whole, the one on the game dolly was at my friends spot and it’s relatively flat, if I tried to put one on a dolly in my spot, you would go for the ride of your life, I bone them out 99% of the time.
The wonderful thing about hog hunting is, they are perfect animals to Trad-Bowhunt, the season is unlimited, 365 days a year.
As a lot of you know, I am a big Grizzly El grandy fan, I changed the tip on the magnus to a chisel tip, the arrow did slice a rib on the entrance, with one side of the bleader blade slightly binding, yet no real damage to the blade.
