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A couple of shot placement questions

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HH~:
No head or neck shots period!!!

I was with my father hunting  first couple years I started bow hunting. He was hunting under some Chestnut Oaks and had a nice buck come right to him. He had drawn on him when his head was down and he was walking in. Well, deer come to about 10-12yds and my father was shooting for his chest but the buck saw him release and saw the arrow and ducked his head right into arrow. My father saw what happened and said the buck had the arrow sticking out of his right eye socket and was bleeding bad.

I came to where he was hunting at last light from my location. We followed that buck for about mile and a half in dark before we found him. Was not a photogenic moment. It did do the job. The broadhead was on backside of his skull.

Neck! Anyone who has boned out a neck knows why you dont shoot for a neck on any big game critter with a bow.

Shawn~

Pat B:
WB, a shot through or into the lungs will not only bleed very well but will collapse (pneumothorax) inside the chest. Try holding your breath and see how far you can run.

Russ:

--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on September 19, 2020, 08:48:52 pm ---Second question is more just for fun, not something I would try or encourage anyone else to try.  I was out tonight perforating a few 3d targets, and decided to try a head shot at a doe.  Put the arrow about an inch under her eye, which would probably be a very ugly kill in real life.  But...if you are one of those people who can consistently bulls-eye a tennis ball, and you had a good, heavy, bone-crunching arrow on the string, would there ever be a circumstance where you'd take the head shot?

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No way. no no no no... ugh... i hate to think about this but I've learned how good the brain is at adapting and surviving. we can live with half our brain gone, a pencil clean through the center of it, a chunk of it carved out, a bullet or arrow straight through it if not hitting a vital part of the brain.... the only way the brain will die is lack of oxygen (from blood not getting there or oxygen not getting in the blood) it seems or horrible, horrible trauma, shock, pressure.... even then its iffy.... thats why deer can survive CWD, and why we can survive many injuries, diseases, and other horrible stuff to the brain.

the only area in the head that i personally would even consider a certain kill shot would be the brain stem 4-5cm from the base of the skull... thats what will stop the heart, lungs, nerves, everything below the neck. I would not consider this ethical still as a deers brain is about 1/6 the size of ours meaning their brain stem is probably smaller than 1 inch.

bradsmith2010:
wouldnt try head shot,, not sure bout the heart lung,, both are good shots,,

jimmi the sammi:
A good friend of mine is a pharmacist and a trad hunting archer.  His explanation is that humans experience much pain with heart surgeries and very little pain with lung surgeries.  He thinks it equates the same with animals.  In my experience, heart shot critters go farther than lung shot and from his explanation I believe the pain factor is the reason.  Just my opinion.

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