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shot placement on whitetail deer.....

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Timo:
Good stuff Billy, but I have to make mention something about hitting turkeys low and in front of the tail.I've shot 2 very low,(bout were the breast bone ends and back a bit),Recovered both of them in very short order.Lots of blood. I was told the the intestine area of a turkey is very vascular? (not trying to condon poor shots on any animal here)

Ya have any pics of a cutaway on a turkey?

billy:
HEy Timo,

No, don't have any pics of a turkey's anatomy....but I'll look. 

When I said that guy shot that turkey in the tail, if he would have been back 2 more inches he would have shot thru feathers.  I watched the shot and the turkey immediately flew 100 yards, landed, and took off running.  It wasn't a hit in the vitals....probably just cut the large intestine close to the vent.  I mean, it was WAAAYYYYYY  back....there's no way he hit vitals. 

sailordad:
well i hit one with my wheelie bow about 4 yrs back,right in the shoulder.
10-12 yds at most,i heard and seen the close wing break.it drooped to the ground.i know the wing snapped.
he jumped in the air with my arrow sticking out both sides,one wing flapping the other just dragging along side his body.
he flew,and i aint lying,across a filed that is atleast 300 acres wide.i spent the next 6 hours untill dark looking for that bird on land i
dint even have permission to be on.had to leave my bow and all my gear back on the land i had permission to hunt so idont know what i would have
done if i would have found him alive.never did find him either >:(

Ryano:
Well once again I have to some what disagree with you Billy. I've recovered many,many,many whitetail deer that were hit poorly....My gut shot recovery rate has been pretty good as long as the deer were left alone and not pushed for several hours or over night if possible.. Gut shot deer usually don't go very far and just lay down and die in there first bed if left alone. If you do much bow hunting sooner or later your going to make a crappy shot. It happens to everyone. Thats where tracking skills come into play.  Shot placement is in deed critical, but in the real world the perfect shot doesn't always happen. You just always need to do your best to make the best shot you can and be prepared to do some searching when the shot doesn't go as planned. I've killed at least one deer with a bow and arrow, and as many as five, every year since I was 13 years old, with the exception of one year, that was the first year I switched from hunting with a compound to a primitive bow and stuck with it....back in like 2000 I want to say ? Trust me. I've killed a lot of deer with a bow and arrow and a lot of them were not text book shots. I won't stop looking for a wounded animal until I feel the meat would be spoiled anyways or I feel the animal isn't dead and I'm not going to find it. My own stubbornness has found me few deer that that others had given up hope on.  ;)

Anaconda 12:
Ryano, I think you have missed Billy's point,  The point he was trying to make Ithink is that he is tired of phony hunting shows showing poor placement and then doing editing to make it appear the shot was a perfect lethal shot when a experienced eye can tell by arrow impact that is would not be!

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