What's your kill zone?

[Dillybar]

Lets say there is ideal conditions, no wind, a solid rest, and you have some sort of large game standing still broad side at 100-125 yards. What shot do you take? Is it a head shot, neck shot, behind the shoulder heart and lung shot and risk loosing some meat, or just a lung shot only since most people don't eat to much rib meat? My preference in these conditions is to hit the neck. What is yours?

[CanAm500]

Through the shoulder.

[Jelvis]

Low behind the shouder, so the animal bleeds out inside, no one I've seen cuts the throat to bleed the blood out anymore and on a moose it's hard to angle the body down once it's dead on the ground to bleed by gravity. so I try to hit the heart area so it bleeds, on a trophy buck your not going to shoot it in the head so I go behind the shoulder. I don't like eating blood and I go for a heart shot to bleed it out inside, in my humble opinion. Jelly Roll

[.308win]

I like to take out the lungs, I try to sneak it in just behind the shoulder, but I will take the shoulder if I want to try and ancher it.

[Rubicon500]

I prefer to Shoot them in the head at 500+ yards when they are running away from me :mrgreen:

[moosinaround]

Engine room shot for me, on anything. Except bear then a shoulder shot. Oh and chickens I like to shoot for the head, but sometimes its a body shot they die on the spot with hollow points.

[Phil]

Boiler room for me.

[Dillybar]

My uncle likes a heart shot, unfortunaetly with his last moose he went thru his ass to get it

[todbartell]

1/3 the way up from the bottom, aiming for the offside leg.

[bruin]

Heart is ideal for me

[frenchbar]

I for one wouldnt hesitate in taking a neck shot at a deer in those conditions .

[BlacktailStalker]

I'd wait for him to turn away and give 'em a texas heart shot, right up the hoop :)
Seriously, double lung or heart/lung, whatever happens depending on that slight variance of angle.
There's a reason you are taught to shoot there before you are given hunting rights.
But, to each his own, they'll do what they do :)

[Mr. Dean]

I would pass on that shot for a more challenging one. Maybe yell at the critter in a hope that he bolts, Then get him when he's running flat out...

[JoshLedoux]

front left hoof....definitely. Every time.

[Gateholio]

Ona broadside animal, aim 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the chest, on the shoulder.

Works for deer right through to elephants.8)

[Walksalot]

Of the two deer I shot this past year one was though the neck and the other was behind the front shoulder. In my close to forty years of hunting I would have to say the vast majority were shot though the neck. I love to hunt the bush so most shots were very close.

[000buck]

front left hoof....definitely. Every time.


hey me too ....... only i aim at the rear quarter :confused:

[Caveman]

Just behind and slightly below the shoulder blade, trying not to take out the opposite shoulder, but will do that rather than take the neck shot. Through both shoulders if I want to stop him where he stands, as in a bear or goat, etc.

[pupper]

Just behind the front shoulder above the elbow

http://www.bowhuntingnorthamerica.com/Shot%20Placement.htm

[wjh131]

Yup, 1/3 of the way up behing shoulder. Does them in every time.

[Silent Wolf]

I wouldnt care if the animal is 10 feet from me it is always the same spot, boiler room. WIth the lungs and top of the heart nailed they aint goin far:-D

I did a boiler room once on a deer at 10 feet from me and lets just say I got covered in blood:wink:

IMHO head shots are a no go, many animals getting there jaws shot off due to scopes being out of whack


SW

[Steeleco]

Boiler room for me.

For me at least there is no other shot. Head/neck shots are risky even up close.

[lip_ripper00]

Just behind the front shoulder above the elbow

http://www.bowhuntingnorthamerica.com/Shot%20Placement.htm



um... oh never mind:mrgreen:

[pmj]

Heart lung for moose & deer, shoulder when I get a shot at my first bear. Only go for neck if there is no other option and distance is comfortable for me. Behind the ear from less than 10' to finish them off when they are lying on the ground.

[trigger]

boiler room for me. There is nothing worse than skinning out an animal that hasnt been bleed out. i hate getting blood on the meat. another thing i lots of people think you ruin meat shooting behind the shoulder. you actually lose more meat when you go for the neck. theres lots there for burger

[B.C.Boy(100%)]

My preferred kill zone is about .338", with expansion... bigger.

[Kirby]

HEAD SHOT... the only way to go.

Cause they are SO easy:evil:

And yet again to show why head shots are for idiots.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/Cr_mclean/Dumbasshunters.jpg

Kirby

[mcrae]

Heart and lungs for me nothing else....

[boxhitch]

I always coach to shoot 1/3 of the way up from the bottomline. Lots of hunters/clients aim for the midpoint and 'hold a little high' for whatever reason, causing high wounds, needing followup.
Lower is beter.

[mikek blacktail]

I've always shot for the lungs 1/3 up and a inche behind the shoulder line.Don't like head shots, center mass on the lungs is always the biggest kill zone and you shouldn't ruin much meat as a shoulder shot.

[Phreddy]

My uncle likes a heart shot, unfortunaetly with his last moose he went thru his ass to get it

Hi Dillybar.
I'd call that a Texas Heart Shot.
I usually lay the cross hair on the top of the shoulder, which 9 out of 10 times breaks the back and the critter ain't going anywhere. For difficult to guestimate ranges that shot'll do the trick all the way out to 3 or 400 yds. with the 7mm rm or 300 wm.
If I can't knock it down in its tracks, I don't shoot.

[hunter1947]

I always go for behind the front shoulders ,there's a big kill zone in that area and there are just a few ribs that get it.

[Wildfoot]

about 5m with the grenades I use:twisted:

[curt]

i havent seen anything walk away from a good neck shot

[hunter1947]

i havent seen anything walk away from a good neck shot
It depends on how close you are when you shoot ,further out on a neck shot the more chance of a off place shot.

[Ltbullken]

Boiler room just above the heart inline with the front elbow joint. I'll do a shoulder shot too but have usually defaulted to boiler room. Head shots are just stupid and unethical. To be honest, I tried a head shot on a young bull moose once at about 40 yds many years ago, hit it in the jaw knocking it to the ground silly like a boxer's punch. Thankfully it was stunned and another conservatively placed shot to the boiler room finished it. Felt sick to my stomach and with that experience I will never and have never done that again :mad:. 'Nough said by me.

[Ltbullken]

i havent seen anything walk away from a good neck shot
Or an easy to place boiler room shot...

[Walksalot]

I seen a guy take both shoulders out on a doe at close to thirty yards. IMHO it is a waste of meat.

[hunter1947]

I seen a guy take both shoulders out on a doe at close to thirty yards. IMHO it is a waste of meat. Because this person didnt place his shot properly ,that's why he took out both shoulder ,you got to make the best of your shot and now exactly were your bullet is going to hit before you even thinking of squeezing the trigger ,or if in dought ,don't shoot.