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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 286162" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>10" behind the front leg bone, mid-height on the body, is deadly. Moving further back, the organ directly behind the diaphram is the liver, and a liver shot animal is a dead animal also. We don't have to agree, and I don't fault you for your preference. My success with this shot placement spans 40 years now, and without exception, this shot placement kills quickly and results in minimal edible meat damage. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, game animals shot forward of the front leg bone are failed hits, unless the animal is quartering toward you. I've seen those forward of the front leg hits by others I've hunted with, hunters who targeted the front leg/shoulder and errored slightly forward with their shot placement. In fact I have finished off some of those wounded animals myself. I would rather error behind the front leg than chance a hit in front of it.</p><p></p><p>I've got 40 years of repeated success with my preferred shot placement and it sounds like you do also. If I was a guide (I am not) and uncertain of my client's prowess with a rifle, I'd probably tell them to shoot a bear to break the front shoulders also. That way if the animal headed for cover, I could know before the animal reached the alders that additional finishing shots were in order. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, when I shoot a bear through the middle of the ribcage, if it heads for the alders I have no worries. And I still have edible front shoulder meat.</p><p></p><p>I tend to avoid taking really long shots on bears, because they can be such a bugger to recover without a solid first hit. But shooting at other large game animals at distances where terminal bullet velocity has dropped near minimum required bullet expansion velocity, I will tend to aim more for the front shoulder area in order to improve the odds of bullet expansion due to impact with front leg/shoulder bone. And at ranges past 600 yards, the bullets out of the rifles I'm using have slowed enough that bullet-caused meat damage is pretty minimal, compared to the higher velocity impacts at closer ranges.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 286162, member: 4191"] 10" behind the front leg bone, mid-height on the body, is deadly. Moving further back, the organ directly behind the diaphram is the liver, and a liver shot animal is a dead animal also. We don't have to agree, and I don't fault you for your preference. My success with this shot placement spans 40 years now, and without exception, this shot placement kills quickly and results in minimal edible meat damage. On the other hand, game animals shot forward of the front leg bone are failed hits, unless the animal is quartering toward you. I've seen those forward of the front leg hits by others I've hunted with, hunters who targeted the front leg/shoulder and errored slightly forward with their shot placement. In fact I have finished off some of those wounded animals myself. I would rather error behind the front leg than chance a hit in front of it. I've got 40 years of repeated success with my preferred shot placement and it sounds like you do also. If I was a guide (I am not) and uncertain of my client's prowess with a rifle, I'd probably tell them to shoot a bear to break the front shoulders also. That way if the animal headed for cover, I could know before the animal reached the alders that additional finishing shots were in order. On the other hand, when I shoot a bear through the middle of the ribcage, if it heads for the alders I have no worries. And I still have edible front shoulder meat. I tend to avoid taking really long shots on bears, because they can be such a bugger to recover without a solid first hit. But shooting at other large game animals at distances where terminal bullet velocity has dropped near minimum required bullet expansion velocity, I will tend to aim more for the front shoulder area in order to improve the odds of bullet expansion due to impact with front leg/shoulder bone. And at ranges past 600 yards, the bullets out of the rifles I'm using have slowed enough that bullet-caused meat damage is pretty minimal, compared to the higher velocity impacts at closer ranges. [/QUOTE]
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