I guess unless someone actually explains why with an educated answer, I will continue to take this shot. I'm not being ignorant, I just cannot come up with a reason why people say this is bad.
Haven't read all 50+ responses, but I would move the stand so you aren't right over the trail. That being said, no, I would not take a straight away shot.
I won't take the shot. Reasons being I've saw were people hit the sternum and the arrow glanced to one side or the other. If you hit high enough In that sternum It's some pretty big bone. Broadside and quartering shots give you more room for error than any shot on any animal. Why tilt your odds? Bow hunting takes patience. If you don't have It, It will catch up with you sooner or later. I can promise you that.
Frontal Deer Shot This deer shot is too risky on whitetail and mule deer. Yes, you can kill a deer by taking a frontal deer shot with a bow, but the odds are against you. The chances of hitting the rib cage bone and deflecting or stopping your arrow far outweigh the odds of your broadhead taking out enough vitals for a quick and humane kill. This is a deer shot to pass on until the animal turns broadside for a more effective and ethical killing shot. "You can take this deer shot with a firearm but the effective target area is much narrower than the width of the deer and the deer shot must be dead on for a quick and humane kill. A few inches either side of dead center will result in a frontal shoulder deer shot and will more than likely require a second shot. A little low on the deer shot and you will hit the deer in the meaty, lower brisket, resulting in a wounded animal. http://www.shotplacement.com/
Schultzy counldn't have said it better. Bow hunting is all about PATIENCE. I've had hundreds of deer inside my affective killing range and have only dropped the string 10 times in the past 3 years. Yes, it is absolutely scary that some people take these shots. I don't want anything to do with these so called hunters. They make us look very bad sometimes.
On another thread you mentioned that if "you practice the shot, you don't need luck" talking about a head-on shot. If you're a new hunter, how often have you gotten the chance to practice this shot? Which is it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
For whatever it means i was strictly talking about taking this shot with a gun which I have done. I have never attempted this shot with a bow even when I have been given the opportunity. Good points made and I still wouldn't take the shot now, atleast not with a bow.
The key to hunting... PATIENCE! My brothers have been teaching me bowhunting for the last 2 years and I have had 2 shots at deer this whole time! First was a button buck and I missed because I misjudged yardage and he was 3 more yards then I thought. (I was nervous as hell!, first shot ever at a deer with my bow). This button buck as you would guess came back into the feild but behind me on the other side of the fence in another field. I harvested him an hour later as he slowly fed towards my stand. Second was 3 weeks ago when I missed a doe because I WASN'T PATIENT!.... oops. NO deer was injured from that shot but I simply didn't wait for her to walk out of the brush and clipped a branch! PATIENCE PATIENCE PATIENCE.
If a deer is walking straight at you it has to turn and give you a shot at some point. The deer is not going to run you over.... But if he does get that close pull your knife and Rambo him!!!!! Rambo kills work 100% of the time!
The more I read these post, the more I'll take the shot. Group think is never right, Show me proof that this is a bad shot and not what the industry is instilling in your head. And of coarse, if you can't attack the facts, attack the person, so I expect Vito and his band of merry sheep to attack at will.
Salbo- you need to go back and read some of the older posts on here and you will see that everyone on here has their own opinion and disagree and a bunch of topics, but one thing that all ethical hunters on this forum agree with is not taking low percentage shots. I did not learn this from anything to do with the industry, I was taught this as a very young boy hunting with his dad. If you can't realize this and learn from it, then I don't believe there is any help for you!
