With all the debate, I thought I would ask the question:

Question:
What shots will you take?

Choices:
I only take head/neck shots.
I only take heart/lung shots.
I will take any shot except a Texas head shot.
I will take any shot that reasonably presents itself.
I always shoot for the guts. I like the smell of ruman in the morning.

 

I shoot for the exit, have that bullet travel through the vitals and you have a dead animal. I won't say I've never shot an animal through the guts to get there, but usually they are already wounded by myself or others and need to be put down quickly. I wish I could make the perfect shot every time but I do screw up from time to time.

So far we have more gut shooters then head shooters. That should make HotCore happy!
Keep the votes coming.

Ones that I'm certain will effect a quick humane kill.
Best
GWB

quote:

Originally posted by Antelope Sniper:
With all the debate, I thought I would ask the question:

I only go looking for lung shots these days, most of the time pass up other shots, particularly when it's just too windy (a Milk River alfalfa field and a Wyoming sage flat come to mind).

I took the THS once about twenty years ago, figured from the distance involved it would be either a killing shot or a miss. It was a killing shot, resulted in bringing a Caprice (our jeep that year after the car rental company reneged on the promised station wagon) quite a ways down a roadless gully to pick up the buck.

I chose heart/lung, but will certainly take a neck shot if it presents itself.

I was only a NY deer hunter so my answer to one poster's poll was a "heart/lung shot". It was somewhat dishonest because after I had my 30-06 with 180 gr.bullet, I felt free to shoot at that white flag waving at me -as if taunting me when I just had my beloved 30-30!