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Whitetail POI...... What’s your intended Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 2116506" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>I grew up hunting in Erie & Warren counties, so your story sounds very familiar to me. When I lived there, over one million licensed hunters roamed the woods in Pennsylvania. There were hunters everywhere. If you don't knock the deer right down, you may not get them at all. The meat you blow up in the shoulders is insignificant compared to losing the whole animal. Another situation where shooting for the shoulders is the better way to go is when you're in really rough country, and you don't want to pack one out of some miserably canyon full of rocks & blow-downs. That's usually where they're going to run when hit through the rib cage.</p><p></p><p>I prefer to shoot them right over the top of the heart, and as often as not they go right down when hit there. But they don't go down every time, and when they're pointed at the edge of a nasty hell-hole that I don't want to pack them out of, breaking some big bones is the better idea. I took a scolding from an old guy I was hunting elk with in Montana one day for shooting a nice fat cow right through the shoulders. I pointed to the miserable jungle the animal would have run down into and asked him how well he'd like to help me pack the carcass out of there. Instead, we dragged the whole carcass down the snow-covered grassy slope to the forest service road at the bottom, then pulled it whole up into the bed of the pick-up with a come-along. That beat the daylights out of blowing a whole hunting day lumping bloody quarters out of the bottom of that rough and ugly canyon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 2116506, member: 109113"] I grew up hunting in Erie & Warren counties, so your story sounds very familiar to me. When I lived there, over one million licensed hunters roamed the woods in Pennsylvania. There were hunters everywhere. If you don't knock the deer right down, you may not get them at all. The meat you blow up in the shoulders is insignificant compared to losing the whole animal. Another situation where shooting for the shoulders is the better way to go is when you're in really rough country, and you don't want to pack one out of some miserably canyon full of rocks & blow-downs. That's usually where they're going to run when hit through the rib cage. I prefer to shoot them right over the top of the heart, and as often as not they go right down when hit there. But they don't go down every time, and when they're pointed at the edge of a nasty hell-hole that I don't want to pack them out of, breaking some big bones is the better idea. I took a scolding from an old guy I was hunting elk with in Montana one day for shooting a nice fat cow right through the shoulders. I pointed to the miserable jungle the animal would have run down into and asked him how well he'd like to help me pack the carcass out of there. Instead, we dragged the whole carcass down the snow-covered grassy slope to the forest service road at the bottom, then pulled it whole up into the bed of the pick-up with a come-along. That beat the daylights out of blowing a whole hunting day lumping bloody quarters out of the bottom of that rough and ugly canyon. [/QUOTE]
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