Has anybody actually done it ????

[SuperK]

With all the new info from Dr. Ashby's studies, there must be many TradGangers who are hunting deer with extreme FOC arrows, single bevel broadheads with matching fletching, tanto c.o.i. points,etc. I wonder if anyone has actually hit a deer(a real, live deer while hunting) in the shoulder blade and gotten enough penetration to kill the deer?  I saw the topic with the dead doe shot with the homemade single-bevel broadhead but what about a live deer while hunting?  If yes, what weight arrow, bow poundage at your draw, etc.  I know I would love to hear about it.  How 'bout the rest of ya?    

[trapperDave]

You know someone is gonna try....

[Jesse Minish]

[Jesse Minish]

Originally posted by Jesse Minish:
60# @ 28" Horne Brush Bow and I draw 29". 650 grain ash arrow with a Stos broadhead. Through the shoulder blade and into the dirt, watched him fall 30 yards away.

Jesse

[BamBooBender]

I'll let ya know when/if I connect with a deer. Not gonna shoot for the shoulder blade on purpose, but want to see if they might lead to a short blood trail like a snuffer, magnus I, Simmons treeshark, or interceptor would.

[Ray Hammond]

I shot a doe through both shoulder blades, the exit wound was through the "heavy" part of the off shoulder blade- it split/cracked the flat part of the onside shoulder blade, went through and busted a big chunk out of the offside part that has the thicker bone in it, and stuck out about 4 inches of the offside.

She ran like no deer I have ever seen...looked like she never got more than 10 inches high as she was running( I think she was pushing with her back legs and the front ones were pinned until she broke the arrow) she broke the arrow off and it fell out in two pieces, she went about 60 yards on the run and died in full stride, in sight the whole time.

Huge blood trail..the bigger portion of the vitals were blocked by a sapling, she was coming downhill toward my stand from behind, so she was already low, and I shot higher than I was looking.

64#@28 recurve, 30 inch CE "wally world" cactus camo shaft with a 190 grizzly, steel adapter, brass insert. Probably about 625-650 grains.

That was about 6 years ago.

[Hillbilly WA]

Originally posted by Ray Hammond:
 30 inch CE "wally world" cactus camo shaft

What do you mean by this?

[JC]

Hillbilly, Carbon express made a run of arrows for Walmart that had a cactus camo pattern.

I shot a doe 5 years ago with a 65@27 G&L takedown longbow, Carbon express Terminator Hunter Shaft, 160 STOS with insert, total arrow weight of 590gr, 18 yards through a hole in the brush..she moved some or I pulled a bit...through both shoulder blades, head just protruding the skin. When she took off, kinda like Ray's she broke the arrow in 4 pcs inside. Fell at about 75 yards. Have no idea how she made it that far, there had to have been a gallon of blood in the body cavity.

[BernieH]

I shot a buck a couple of years ago that was slightly quartering away. 25 yard shot. Through ribs on the near side and the scapula on the way out (he was dropping and wheeling away as the arrow hit him, so the exit wound was higher than the entrance). Arrow stuck out about 8 inches on the far side. Ran about 60 yards. Arrow was a GT 55/75 with a 160 grizzly with 100 gr insert. Fletching did not match as I was using LW at the time. Bow was a Robertson stykbow, 55#@28".

Hillbilly - that would be a carbon express Wal Mart cactus camo shaft.

[Walt Francis]

Last year I shot at a button buck that was broadside but he turned and was quartering away when the arrow reached him.  The arrow went through the flat part of the near shoulder and exited in front of the off shoulder.  He ran thirty yards before piling up in full stride.  I was using a 60# Osage selfbow, Hex Pine shaft (with right wing fletching), and a 190 grain Grizzly broadhead.  The entire arrow below the fletching was protruding out the off side.

[Walt Francis]

[longbowman]

Lets see.  Of the 55 whitetails I've killed 16 have been thorugh at least one shoulder blade and 6 took out both.  I shot my first mule deer buck perfect broadside through both shoudlers completley cutting through the famous "T" on the blades dropping him to his chest.  I shot a 505# black bear from the ground quartering away from me and went in the liver and broke through the shoulder blade on the opposite side with 10" of arrow sticking out.  My first bull elk was shot quartering towards me tight behind the right shoulder and the arrow traveled throgh and broke the leg bone on the left hind leg.  All of the kills were with between 70 & 80# recurves and longbows. Some with 550 gr. cedars using Black diamond Deltas, some with 825 gr. laminated birch with 200 gr. Ace heads and the majority with 2216's and Bear Razorheads.

[SuperK]

Great stuff ya'll, keep it coming!    Has anybody been able to do it with a bow in the 45 to 50 pound range?

[SuperK]

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