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What's your favorite shot???
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08/21/17 10:03 PM
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Elkhunter49
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I'm like anyone else in that I like a broadside shot where I can run a round thru the torso just behind the shoulder but I think my favorite angle is slightly quartering away! I've dumped more animals in their tracks from this angle than any other. What about you?
Last edited by Elkhunter49; 08/21/17 10:05 PM.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/21/17 10:25 PM
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cameron00
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Right in the shoulder blade, very slightly quartering towards. They always just crash down right where they are.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/21/17 10:32 PM
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300 win mag at 3180 fps with a 180 grain ballistic tip, everything pretty much drops where it stands. I also like a broadside shot behind the shoulder.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/21/17 11:34 PM
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Quartering away, can be slight or sharp. It's world will get rocked if it's a sharp quartering shot. Running one from ham to tonsils pretty much sucks all the life out of them on the spot even with mobility intact.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 12:14 AM
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 12:35 AM
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Neck shot
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 01:58 AM
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Most of my hunting is with a muzzleloader, usually with round balls. I like a broadside shot with the ball placed just below the backbone at the top of the liver. That usually gets instant paralysis with no loss of meat.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 02:03 AM
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Quartering away is the shot I prefer to take most often. Right between the peepers on a doe is a close second.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 11:47 AM
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I like top of the shoulder at the base of the neck. For bow shots, quartering away.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 01:08 PM
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Brain stem everything, except things with antlers, given the opportunity. If it's got antlers, then behind the shoulder.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 01:24 PM
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 02:08 PM
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titan2232
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Exactly as you said. Slightly quartering away has worked really well for me
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 02:20 PM
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I immediately thought tequila.....sorry.... High neck or head shot if possible.....high shoulder otherwise....
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 02:34 PM
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What am I shooting at? Pigs and deer get different shot placements.
If it's a buck, behind the shoulder. Doe, head shot if possible, or right behind the shoulder to minimize or avoid messing up the shoulder meat. (I shoot a 300 blk out with 125 BT or 125 SST)
Pigs- All pigs get a neck or high neck shot, or in the ear. If you shoot a pig in the shoulder or behind the shoulder, it will generally kill it, but it most likely will run 100+ yards before it does. I want to anchor a pig where it stands, so an ear hole or neck is what it gets.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 02:58 PM
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Anything that makes a hog giddyup. I never knew hunting could be so much fun.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 04:10 PM
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Aiming for the off-side shoulder-hence, slight quartering away. Broadside I'll go right behind the shoulder or high shoulder shot. In response to HWY_MAN - make mine 3 fingers of single malt.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 04:10 PM
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slightly quartering away, aim for the off side shoulder.
they don't run when you get the top of their heart/lungs and break the far shoulder
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 06:04 PM
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High shoulder most of the time.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 06:14 PM
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Deer - broadside behind the shoulder.....high shoulder if I need it to drop right there....
Hogs - ear hole
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 06:25 PM
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Depending on the angle I get....it either broadside behind shoulder or in front shoulder neck shot.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 07:35 PM
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/22/17 07:54 PM
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quartering to me -- front of shoulder/base of neck
squared up broadside -- high shoulder
quartering away -- behind the shoulder aiming up through the engine
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/23/17 02:35 AM
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From the corner, behind the 3 pt line
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/23/17 10:32 AM
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High shoulder, in the shoulder blade. I'm trying to break bone and anchor him, no running = no tracking.
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Re: What's your favorite shot???
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08/23/17 11:55 AM
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