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Author Topic: Aim low or right on target  (Read 817 times)

Offline Terry Green

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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2011, 07:15:00 AM »
Can't vote...each shot is different....each animal is different, each scenario is different.....have to make the choice when the opportunity arises.
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2011, 07:51:00 AM »
Always where I want to hit, which is pretty low (crease behind the leg).  I have only shot unalarmed deer at pretty close range, so none yet have sqatted and caused a miss.  Any misses have been strictly MY fault.    :rolleyes:   If they are already alarmed and jumpy, I typically just pass.  Not saying it will always be that way, just has been so far.  I wouldn't want to try and second guess a deer 'cause I can't even second guess myself with any success.
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2011, 07:55:00 AM »
Texas deer, lower third.  They be moving pretty quick!
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2011, 09:14:00 AM »
Gonna put a sticker on my bow just above the handle reading,"PICK A SPOT!" Seems to be my problem all too often.
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Offline Terry Green

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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2011, 09:22:00 AM »
The Red Dot is were I aim at TX Deer....

Look at what happens if you aim where you want to hit (yellow dot)...

   TX Buck runs the Script...
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2011, 09:31:00 AM »
Terry,

That really demonstrates the speed of the "ducking" of a whitetail.  Man, they can move quick!  Thanks for posting the video!
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2011, 09:54:00 AM »
On the ground... Tight lower thirdas in RC explains the crease...

From a stand, I try to aim to exit lower third exit-side...
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2011, 05:01:00 PM »
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I ain`t got the fingers and toes for ones I`ve shot over.RC
:laughing:  Not as many years but I'm with ya!!
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2011, 07:59:00 PM »
I voted right on target but my "on target" is low tight in the crease behind the elbow, like RC said!! Also to aim for the heart is tough on a broadside deer unless leg is foreward a bit as that leg/elbow protects it pretty good. Shawn
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2011, 08:02:00 PM »
Terry, Curt has told me that! (LOL) Shawn
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2011, 08:16:00 PM »
Years ago I hit real big buck right where I was looking, the right side drop tine. Since then I shoot for the bottom half of the heart,

Offline Jason Scott

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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #31 on: September 14, 2011, 05:06:00 PM »
If you hunt down here in Texas very long you will pick a spot as low as you think you can get away with. No matter if the deer is 5 yards or what. It seems that if you choose to take a shot very far you need to guess which direction they will run off to and try and lead them. That's an exageration but it does seem that way.

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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2011, 05:50:00 PM »
I think my deer here in MS must have come from TX!
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Re: Aim low or right on target
« Reply #33 on: September 14, 2011, 06:00:00 PM »
Dan Quillian told me once while we were hunting in south GA that he shot for the angle where the lower body line meets the front leg. Even with a quiet bow and at close range, they tend to drop before the arrow gets there.

I can remember shooting under only two deer, one of which was just last year. I've missed a few more than that.    :)
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