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    What Would Have Really Happened Pt. 4 Heart Or Not

    Simply... Is this a heart shot or not? Would it have hit the shoulder bone? How would this have faired if this was a hog? Take into consideration I shoot a 2.5" B.H. with an arrow that gross 625 gpi...

    Quartering toward (again) from a raised platform @ 20 Yds.


    #2
    I say money shot!

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      #3
      If that aint perfect, I don't know what is. I put my pin about a half inch to the right of where the arrow is in this picture.

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        #4
        Dead deer! She will not go far! Yes it will get some shoulder bone but should blow right through.

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          #5
          Looks like you broke the deer's back!

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            #6
            double lung, and top of heart probably. Watch it drop!!

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              #7
              Dead pig too.

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                #8
                That's about right. On a 2.5" mechanical though, odds are you are losing a blade to the foreleg bone angling up right next to the shot placement. Should put a hole right through the aorta or top of heart. On a hog you got both lungs probably from elevation and angle.

                A note on bone in this area. The scapula above this can be gotten through. The bone extending from the belly line to mid shoulder is a solid chunk. I've been unfortunate enough to hit it square with a Stinger once... and well the stinger didn't look like a stinger afterwards and I got to watch a deer pull an arrow out of itself with its mouth, not a good memory
                Last edited by Loneaggie; 03-12-2009, 09:34 AM. Reason: clarification

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                  #9
                  Hard to say exactly what the angle is on that arrow. But there's a good possibility that shot goes behind and above the heart. A one-lunger and very possibly shoulder. As long as you're not looking at a 250#+ animal you'll probably find it, but you will use your woodsman's skills to get it done. A 2.5" blade may sustain significant damage going through bone, but you never know on any given shot. Still, the odds are much better waiting for a broadside > quartering away shot.

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                    #10
                    that would drop bigfoot, of course he would have to be on all fours for something

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                      #11
                      Center heart bottom lungs just above leg bone or barely clipping it, if quarting toward u might come out front stomach leaveing some gut on arrow, but deer is dead!

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                        #12
                        IMHO, that would be back of heart but double lung for sure, I personally don't take quartering too shots but to each his own. You should be able to watch this deer fall.

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                          #13
                          Looks like your target tried to load up to jump the string

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                            #14
                            i do avoid quartering toward shot... but where the range owner puts the standing stakes that's where I shoot from... What's been most interesting to me is how difficult it is to get a perfect broadside shot. Even when my head calculated a perfect broadside shot it seems to always be a quartering in some form or another in small increments.

                            Nevertheless if I could get an animal to sit still enough to shoot I'd be set for life hahahahahaha.... Hog's are the sketchiest animals. The seem to all need some A.D.D. medicine... hahahaha...

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                              #15
                              You'll be just over the leg bone and probably take out the top of the heart, maybe the major vessels that exit. You'll get two lungs and I would think you'll see the animal pile up. I'd think that shot would get me a fist pump.

                              I'd put my pen about an inch or so behind that spot, but if I hit where your arrow is, I'd feel pretty dang confident. I wouldn't want to go any higher or farther forward. The scapula covers very little killin' stuff and I had the unfortunate experience to stick a Thunderhead in one with an 80 lb bow. Knocked the deer to the ground and got virtually no penetration. That was a LONG time ago and since then I stay away from the shoulder. I'd rather hit liver.

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