Neck shot pricket

[docholiday]

I shoot around 40 deer and 40 pig each year, never have I lost front shoulder meat, or smashed the intestine. Maybe its because I shoot a 308, and try to keep the distance between 80 and 200m? I have had experience of 243, and 260...........both seem to blow deer to pieces, and they don't always drop to shot. Anyone got any views? Of course bullet type makes a difference, once and once only I shot a deer with a ballistic tip.

 

find this difficult to believe, I use 243 308 6.5x55 and 7mm08 and if chest shot most deer will run, this then causes bleeding around the shoulder meat and hence bruising, if you are a little forward then damage to the shoulder meat is inevatable. If you have shot the number of deer you say, I would say it would be impossible not to have done this. I have been involved in either shooting myself or being with people of all abilities and shot literally thousands of deer. It doesnt matter who you are it will happen.

[activeviii]

50/50 on fallow taken with a heart shot, most just slump on the floor where they once stood. odd ones run. I always try and work out where the hidden leg is in relation the heart/lung. if need be i wait for the shot. I have had some right messes but its the bullet that's to blame imho, had a fair number just blowing the back wall out like a shotgun. the interlocks i use now just a clean hole with minimal damage. i find most blood gets between the membrane when bleeding out.

 

Nothing at all wrong with the neck and head shot, i have taken a number myself this way but always close, sub 100. i was going to say the shot looked an inch low and cut the pipe works but its always hard to see when not being there.

 

still nice work Doc now where's the butchering and the liver pate?

 

all best

 

Phil.

Edited October 15, 2013 by activeviii

[JDog]

There are some real experts on this forum and it is always a pleasure to read of different experiences.

 

Many years ago whilst stalking out on the open heather in Perthshire I saw a roe buck sunning itself on a grassy knoll. I stalked to within 80m and settled in for the shot. The deer had no suspicions and refused to get up despite my squeaks and grunts so I shot it through the chest facing me. When I skinned it I could see that the bullet had gone through most of the ribs on one side and the exit wound was out of it's ****.

[docholiday]

There are some real experts on this forum and it is always a pleasure to read of different experiences.

 

Many years ago whilst stalking out on the open heather in Perthshire I saw a roe buck sunning itself on a grassy knoll. I stalked to within 80m and settled in for the shot. The deer had no suspicions and refused to get up despite my squeaks and grunts so I shot it through the chest facing me. When I skinned it I could see that the bullet had gone through most of the ribs on one side and the exit wound was out of it's ****.

 

I am guessing this is just a p**s take and that you didnt actually shoot a deer through the chest, head on whilst it was lying on the ground......................?