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Whitetail POI...... What’s your intended Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 2453534" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>I used to hunt in northwestern Minnesota, for the pony-sized whitetails that roam the big farming valley along the Red River of the North. In those days, it was slug-gun only - and those don't reliably anchor deer with ribcage shot placement. If we were close to property boundaries, without access to the neighboring property, we didn't want them to run. That meant break one or both shoulders, to put them down on the spot. If we were right in the middle of one of my buddy's farms, no problem - behind the shoulder in the heart/lung area worked fine. We also got a lot of instant knockdowns with that, but nothing like every time. More often, they would run 50 or 60 yards, but if one jump of a fence would make the animal irretrievable, the shoulder shot was by far the better way to go. Also, we didn't fuss about the meat loss, since losing the whole animal would have stung a lot worse. We had bunches of doe tags anyway, so we just shot more deer for the meat pole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 2453534, member: 109113"] I used to hunt in northwestern Minnesota, for the pony-sized whitetails that roam the big farming valley along the Red River of the North. In those days, it was slug-gun only - and those don't reliably anchor deer with ribcage shot placement. If we were close to property boundaries, without access to the neighboring property, we didn't want them to run. That meant break one or both shoulders, to put them down on the spot. If we were right in the middle of one of my buddy's farms, no problem - behind the shoulder in the heart/lung area worked fine. We also got a lot of instant knockdowns with that, but nothing like every time. More often, they would run 50 or 60 yards, but if one jump of a fence would make the animal irretrievable, the shoulder shot was by far the better way to go. Also, we didn't fuss about the meat loss, since losing the whole animal would have stung a lot worse. We had bunches of doe tags anyway, so we just shot more deer for the meat pole. [/QUOTE]
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