Shot placement - head & neck shots

Shot placement - head & neck shots

[@StephenCooteNZ]

Very good information that all new hunters should be aware of. Best wishes from New Zealand.

[@0570965]

One shot, done.

[@10Lav]

Solid information!

[@StormAngelWolf]

If you butcher deer or any game you catch alive and trace the neck veins with your fingers get a feel of where it runs how shallow or deep you can actually glimpse the pulse of it where it's ripe for a shot through your scope. Any large game will lose brain blood pressure and drop in it's tracks. 2 benefits you get from that is draining of blood and lymphatic fluid and te animal literally passes out. Saving harvest of organs. I crossbow hunt with heavy arrows or bolts but still will go for the soft spots lower neck close to shoulder is what I go for at perfect side angle so I can nail both arteries if I can. Not easy to be silent using a high power crossbow at that but I got tricks for it and they work. Takes patience and practice for sure but I got shots through from a bikes saddle coming up on a grazing deer from down wind and it went into shock so fast it didn't move even an inch from where it stood. Perfect harvest of clean organs and very clean none gamy meat; but i had to run over and deliver a quick slay cut making sure it bled out fully. Worth the training and patience taking that shot in my book.

[@gordons.dempseyii1345]

Thanks

[@johanswart8116]

What about the new craze. Long range hunting.

[@ijamzer5190]

that’s just more or less killing for fun than hunting’s

[@1810jeff]

@@ijamzer5190 You have any idea how hard long range shots are? It isn't easy and if you're gonna use the "it isn't fair for the animal" argument then you might as well extend that to guns and other ranged weapons.

[@ijamzer5190]

1810Jeff to me hunting is about outsmarting animals and getting in close not dinging one from 800 yards because i can

[@johanswart8116]

@@ijamzer5190 say you wound a animal on 1100 yards and it starts running away. I have heard of it happening and the buck is not found. The guys just delete there video and act like it never happened. Long range hunters most of the the time want to video the kill. All about measuring dicks. "I shot a springbuck at 1km" and then he has full camo gear on. Lol. I shot a springbuck at 20meters in 2010, he dit not even know i was there.

[@StephenCooteNZ]

It bothers me Johan. It is good to be a proficient shooter at longer distances, but I think there is a greater chance of animals escaping and having to suffer a wound. Best wishes from New Zealand.

[@ohreally...]

This is just a classic example of hunting outside of skill set. If you can't get close enough to take an ethical shot regardless of placement, you're wrong.

[@bradelford363]

You say that heart/lung is better yet the head/neck shots dropped instantly and the heart/lung all ran a bit...

[@rogermalouf7685]

Totally disagree with this. When I shoot an animal, the only place that I want him to go is down. The opinion of the neck shot is lacking some important information. In the body of a mammal, there are 5 critical systems, that if critically injured result in almost instant death...and certainly cause an animal to immediately drop in its tracks....and 3 of them are located in the neck and are nearly impossible to miss all 3 with a high powered rifle. It is also the reason, most predators attack the throat. These 3 systems and how they are found in the neck are as follows: skeletal system (vertebra)....nervous system (spinal cord)...and circulatory system (jugular vein). It is virtually impossible to shoot an animal in the neck with a high powered rifle and not hit one or more of these systems. If a neck shot does not present itself, or for some reason I am not comfortable taking it, the high shoulder shot which penetrates both lungs is equally affective and preferable to a heart shot....always.

[@philbaker29]

Them shorts though 🤔

[@traumajock]

Are they his underwear and he forgot to put pants on? lol

[@jimyjoegingerale]

what language is this dude talking????it's quite similar to english...

[@chrisdelreal9579]

English with a south african accent (probably speaks afrikaans too).

[@useryggfdcc]

You don't understand English,?

[@L.V-Rider]

So what language are you speaking that you don't understand it but can write it? Are you just trying to be "smart"?