when hunting with a smoke pole

[OptimaAndy]

What is your prefered shot on a deer?

 

[03mossy]

90% of the time I go behind the shoulder. I try to avoid ruining any meat. I also am fine with a strait on shot if thats my only option. There is one spot I hunt were I aim strait at the shoulder, it's right by a highway and close to a neighborhood and I don't want a wounded deer running by some animal right activists backyard.

 

[rc67]

Behind the shoulder

 

[cayuga]

It depends on what the shooting situation is. If the deer is able to run off into a thicket, then it s a high shoulder shot to break them down and plant them. If they are in an area a little tacking is not a problem, then I slide it behind the front shoulder at an angle to the other shoulder.

 

[frontier gander]

behind the shoulder most of the time but from time to time i like to just dump one right through both front shoulder blades.

 

[GM54-120]

Just behind the shoulder, blow up the heart. Ive taken higher shoulders if they walk to close under the stand or property line.

I pretty much stick to good broad sides or a very good quartering. I hate gutting a head on shot if it goes bad.

 

[maddog2]

Whatever they present me, is generally what I take.


maddog2

 

[hawgslayer]

I perfer the broad side double lung but sometimes it just isn't so. I've had to take the quartering away. 8)

 

[SJAdventures]

Behind the shoulder double lung.

 

[wayles]

shot

First killing shot offered, the perfect shot may not happen. Prefer tight behind shoulder in the middle up and down, broadside.
Wayles

 

[black powder]

Behind the shoulder double lung ..if i can't get a good shot i let it walk away ..and say to myself i was lucky to see a deer that day that is what hunting is all about enjoy the out of doors ..

 

[jims]

The double lung when I can get it but if I want the deer to not move at all the high shoulder shot works well.

 

[bernieg]

double lung if i ever see one!!

 

[guitarpicva]

It depends on what the shooting situation is. If the deer is able to run off into a thicket, then it s a high shoulder shot to break them down and plant them. If they are in an area a little tacking is not a problem, then I slide it behind the front shoulder at an angle to the other shoulder.

Bingo...

 

[Muley Hunter]

Shoulder shots destroy edible meat. I prefer a double lung shot.

 

[moridgerunner]

On a wallhanger - the first best shot!
Any other buck - top of the heart
On a doe - any shot that does not destroy meat

 

[Alberta Boy]

Shoulder shot no more

I tried shoulder shots with a 250 gr SST and 100grs T7 for one season for a draw Army Base Hunt here in Alberta Canada. I lost two muley's in two days. One doe and one 3x4 buck (not huge but meat is meat IMO). On the last day I shot very nice 5x5 whitetail but needed a finishing shot and slit throat. All shots were under 100yds with the w.t. buck @ a lasered 46yds.
I now strictly take behind the shoulder heart/lung shots if presented. If not I let them walk.

 

[jefo1]

up close & personal on a "meat" shot, I'll hit em in the neck,....any distance or size to the animal, behind the shoulder is the place to go to wreck their boiler room.

 

[Buglemintoday]

Double lung behind the shoulder. I've shot em from all sorts of different angles and this is the one I prefer.