3Rivers Archery



The Trad Gang Digital Market













Contribute to Trad Gang and Access the Classifieds!

Become a Trad Gang Sponsor!

Traditional Archery for Bowhunters






LEFT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS TRAD GANG CLASSIFIEDS ACCESS RIGHT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS


Author Topic: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot  (Read 948 times)

Offline steadman

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 4498
Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« on: January 05, 2012, 03:00:00 PM »
Let's stir the pot a bit today. I'm gonna put a pic up of a bull elk. He is 10 yards away. Your in a treestand.

 

Here is the next shot. Again same as before you are at full draw. Where do you shoot?

 

Here's where I pick.

 
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

Offline steadman

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 4498
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 03:02:00 PM »
I'll do some more tom.
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

Offline wapiti792

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 2788
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2012, 03:19:00 PM »
Ryan again, I love this stuff   :thumbsup:  I like the deer shot. Right in the pocket!

The elk would be center mass with those lonnnng stretched out lungs no need to tuck into the shoulder. We're eating elk backstrap tonight brudda  :)  

 
Mike Davenport

Offline Zradix

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 5798
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 03:24:00 PM »
on the second one I'd pull the shot back a bit
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.~Aristotle

..there's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.~ F.Bear

Offline lpcjon2

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 7673
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 03:25:00 PM »
Ok On your first pick I like the top of the crease of the front leg. and I agree on the last pick with your spot maybe an inch higher.
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.
—President Ronald Reagan

Offline steadman

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 4498
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2012, 03:30:00 PM »
Forgot my elk shot. I look here. Gives me a bit of room for error.

 
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

Offline awbowman

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 3719
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2012, 03:38:00 PM »
I agree with Wapati, no need to get it too close to the crease and risk hitting hard bone (especially if he tries to whell around), lungs are far enough back.

Deer pretty much perfect also.
62" Super D, 47#s @ 25-1/2"
58" TS Mag, 53#s @ 26"
56" Bighorn, 46#s @ 26.5"

Offline PaddyMac

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 799
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2012, 03:48:00 PM »
I'd get it off that bone, too. It's picking of the nits but I'd squeeze it inbetween Mike's and Steadman's. Man, I'd like to see a bull from a tree stand like that.
Pat McGann

Southwest Archery Scorpion longbow, 35#
Fleetwood Frontier longbow, 40#
Southwest Archery Scorpion, 45#
Bob Lee Exotic Stickbow, 51#
Bob Lee Signature T/D recurve, 47#
Bob Lee Signature T/D recurve, 55#
Howatt Palomar recurve (69"), 40#

"If you leave archery for one day, it will leave you for 10 days."  --Turkish proverb

Offline Gatekeeper

  • TGMM Member
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 2365
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2012, 03:54:00 PM »
This image is kind of rough and the shoulder bone would probably angle back a little further than what is shown, but I think the height of the shot would angle through the body enough to get both lungs. There is a big area there to shoot at on these beasts.

 
TGMM Family of the Bow   A member since 6/5/09

“I can tell by your hat that you’re not from around here.”

Casher from Brookshires Food Store in Albany, Texas during 2009 Pig Gig

Offline Gatekeeper

  • TGMM Member
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 2365
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2012, 04:03:00 PM »
On the Mule deer I think I would pull the dot back a bit so that it is in line with the opposite leg. On quartering away shots I like to try and exit behind the opposite leg.

Mike, we pretty much picked the same spot.   :thumbsup:
TGMM Family of the Bow   A member since 6/5/09

“I can tell by your hat that you’re not from around here.”

Casher from Brookshires Food Store in Albany, Texas during 2009 Pig Gig

Offline Iowabowhunter

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1652
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2012, 04:06:00 PM »
I would pull the muley shot bout 3 inches left, exiting  thru the heart
Associate PBS member NRA member DU and Pheasants Forever

Offline Iowabowhunter

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1652
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2012, 04:07:00 PM »
Miss the offside shoulder blade that way, clean pass thru
Associate PBS member NRA member DU and Pheasants Forever

Offline Cyclic-Rivers

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 17675
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2012, 08:02:00 PM »
I would be letting some wood fly. Right on with both.
Relax,

You'll live longer!

Charlie Janssen

PBS Associate Member
Wisconsin Traditional Archers


>~TGMM~> <~Family~Of~The~Bow~<

Offline maineac

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 4005
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2012, 08:07:00 PM »
Great shots.  I like a little further back on the deer also.  I'ld probably try to hit the top of the darker line a few inches back from your dot.  Same with the bull, though I doubt I'll ever have to make that choice  :(
The season gave him perfect mornings, hunter's moons and fields of freedom found only by walking them with a predator's stride.
                                                              Robert Holthouser

Offline Wannabe1

  • TGMM Member
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 6807
  • TGMM Family of the Bow
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 08:15:00 PM »
I wouldn't hesitate to shoot both. Elk, a little back of that forward leg and on the Muley, a little back of that crease so as not to hit the off side leg.
Desert Shield/Storm, Somalia and IOF Veteran
"The Mountains are calling and, I must go!" John Muir

Offline Ragnarok Forge

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 3034
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2012, 09:48:00 PM »
I would shoot the elk where the red dot is.  At 10 yards it is elk backstrap steaks for dinner tonight!  The Mule Deer I would shoot for the center of the far side shoulder.  Mule Deer filet mignon for breakfast tomorrow!  Here is the real problem.  That elk is gonna take a while to gut, skin, and quarter the work is about to commence.
Clay Walker
Skill is not born into anyone.  It is earned thru hard work and perseverance.

Offline David Yukon

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1298
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2012, 09:53:00 PM »
I would go with RF on both!!

Offline Geezer

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 284
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2012, 10:02:00 PM »
That log behind the elk - see it?  That's where I'm shooting.    :laughing:
Colorado Traditional Archers Society
Colorado Bowhunters Association
RMEF / NWTF

Offline JamesKerr

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 3575
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2012, 10:30:00 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Ragnarok Forge:
I would shoot the elk where the red dot is.  At 10 yards it is elk backstrap steaks for dinner tonight!  The Mule Deer I would shoot for the center of the far side shoulder.  Mule Deer filet mignon for breakfast tomorrow!  Here is the real problem.  That elk is gonna take a while to gut, skin, and quarter the work is about to commence.
Couldn't have put it any better!
James Kerr

Offline Steve O

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 5311
Re: Today's pick your spot, Shoot or Don't shoot
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2012, 11:22:00 PM »
I don't know how to put dots on but those would be two dead critters!  Hard to believe BB let that bull go.  But I guess you have to have your sights set high in the best elk unit in the west.

Neat idea Ryan!

Users currently browsing this topic:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
 

Contact Us | Trad Gang.com © | User Agreement

Copyright 2003 thru 2024 ~ Trad Gang.com ©