newbie asking for shot placment advice..

[BadJeep]

found a picture after discussing this with a friend, I assume the star is a little high as if it were a elevated shot from a stand or a up hill blind. While broadside would be ideal, that may not happen, but a ethical kill is important to me. So what shots will you NOT take. Also will you pass on a shot if it is questionable?

 

[retrieverman]

I won’t take a shot from right above or a TX heart shot, and I will most definitely pass a shot if I don’t think it’s a slam dunk.

 

[okierider]

Will not shoot a deer in the ass, too much can go wrong!!

 

[PBramble]

I don't like shoulder shots as the bone fragments end up ruining too much meat. We had to throw away two shoulders after a friend punched one with a hot .308 round.

 

[kwaynem]

Jmo but shoulder shots are most always drt and we usually just grind up what we can get off the shoulders anyway the son in law won’t shoot one in the shoulder either to each his own I suppose

 

[dennishoddy]

For a lung/ heart shot I try to wait until the front leg facing me is put forward and shoot where it used to be in it’s normal position. Saves the meat on one leg.
Only took the Tx heart shot once. Biggest buck I’d ever shot at the time years ago fell instantly like a sack of taters.
When I walked up to it, the buck jumped up like nothing happened and took off across an open wheat field. Took two snap shots, missing, then knowing only one bullet remained, sat down and did a Quigley down under shot, taking my time, getting into the rhythm of the buck that was just trotting dead away and shooting. Hit the spine dead center and dropped him. No meat wasted. An inch or so either way and a hindquarter would have been ruined. More luck than skill on the shot.

 

[kwaynem]

My dad Texas heart shot one when I was a kid and hit the artery ruined a hind quarter and the blood trail was incredible

 

[PBramble]

My dad Texas heart shot one when I was a kid and hit the artery ruined a hind quarter and the blood trail was incredible

I did the same from about 50 yards with a 12 gauge slug gun. Looked like someone walked through the woods with a bucket of blood right up til I found him 75 yards away.

 

[rswink]

Never take a pot shot, know what I want to shot, know what is behind, and will gladly pass up what I am unsure of. I can go to the store for food, the deer cannot go to the ER if I screw up, so they will suffer until they die. And, yes I did do that once and will not do it again.

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[DRC458]

I've passed many questionable or iffy shots over the years. I'm pretty durn good at tracking, but don't really like to utilize those skills. I normally will take the shoulder shot, preferably like dennishoddy described. I don't really like the neck shot. I've seen some strange things happen with it. I've only taken the Texas heart shot once, and won't take it again. The deer was DRT, but it did create a mess.