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Deer Hunting question
bubbles:
Yeah, you guys have re-confirmed what I thought before. I don't know the guy in question, so I'm not sure how well he shoots and what kind of shots he is taking. I am going out with someone with many years of deer hunting experience (not the guys who is chasing deer with knives), and I have made every effort to learn and practice as much as I can beforehand. That is why some guy saying "with a traditional bow most of the time I need to finish them off with a knife" really went against everything I've read and seen on this site - in regards to proper shot placement and shooting withing your comfortable accuracy range, etc. Also, it led to a big argument since this has now made my wife even more against hunting. That and apparently yesterday some guys shot a sacred albino moose in nova scotia. Oh well, such is life.
osage outlaw:
Check out my post in the 2013 hunting pictures page. That buck was "stone" dead in well under a minute. It didn't go 50 yards after the shot.
PEARL DRUMS:
No way in the world do I approach a wounded deer with a knife. Those animals are crazy powerful, even hurt. Ive never had to finish a deer off, they have all been dead when I got there. If I had to? Another arrow is heading his way from 20 feet, not a knife from arms length.
Olanigw (Pekane):
--- Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on October 11, 2013, 02:32:06 pm ---No way in the world do I approach a wounded deer with a knife. Those animals are crazy powerful, even hurt. Ive never had to finish a deer off, they have all been dead when I got there. If I had to? Another arrow is heading his way from 20 feet, not a knife from arms length.
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Amen to that. Buddy had a bad spine shot on a doe years ago. Long story short he lost the knife and had the ever living crap beat out of him before she finally bled out. Called my old man for help dragging it out.
Bryce:
Same same. I used stone points for the first time this year with a yew selfbow. Shot was at 25 yards. Both lungs popped. The elk coughed a mist of blood into the air and collapsed 40 yards from the shot.
--- Quote from: Pat B on October 11, 2013, 01:06:27 am ---Every animal in the world has been killed by a wood bow at one time or another. If the archer/hunter is good his wood bow will be as effective as any other hunting weapon. If you can get the arrow where it is supposed to go the deer is dead in a few seconds.
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100% fact :)
Lots of ppl think that the bigger the hole the faster the animal goes down. I see em out there with there 30-06's blowing holes in there meat. When a 223 or a .22 is all you need.
Shot placement is key. The only time an animal took 30 mins to die was when my arrow was just a hair too far back and punched the liver... Still died but it didn't take no hour.
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