Here's the deal guys, Haztec, Bassmatt, myself, my lady and a few others are going down to South Texas on an axis doe hunt this weekend. My lady will be cheating with a rifle since she's not quite ready with her bow and I'm not sure where to shoot these things. I know the vitals are farther forward than a whitetail, so she would shoot for the shoulder or the crease if quartering away if she was using a bow(or so I've read here), but she'll be using a rifle this time around. We don't want to waste a bunch of meat, and I'd like to keep the hide as intact as possible, so where should she shoot these things? A head shot would be ideal, but I'm afraid she would miss the head since it's pretty much a low percentage shot. I've only killed one deer with a rifle, a fallow doe, shot center of neck and she was DRT. Would the neck shot work equally well on an axis? Where on the neck for a high percentage shot, meaning high probability of a hit, and as close to 100% as possible of taking the animal down with a hit? I'm thinking base of neck, where it meets the shoulder, but what are the odds of not hitting anything vital and wounding the deer? She will be shooting her .243, and is capable of 1.25" groups with that rifle off of sandbags. I'm going to take the bags with us, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to use them, since I don't know how the blinds are set up.
So, there's the question....if you can shoot 1.25" groups with a .243 Winchester, where would you aim on an axis doe to perserve as much meat and hide as possible while still dropping the animal as quickly as possible?
So, there's the question....if you can shoot 1.25" groups with a .243 Winchester, where would you aim on an axis doe to perserve as much meat and hide as possible while still dropping the animal as quickly as possible?
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