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hunting170 said:


[email]keith@AimLow[/email] shoots Axis arrows, and has a Cuddeback trail camera.

Tony, That shot is way too low to be one of mine.



BJ, Do you bowhunt?

Yes

BJ,

How can you tell what kind of a shot this person took? Why is it an unethical one? Looks like a classic quartering away shot to me. Personally I think its photoshopped anyhow, but thats beside the point.

Draw a line thru the center of the photo, then do the same down the back of the deer to intersect with the center line, and then down the center of the arrow the difference between the 2 angles should and the distance between the back and the arrow ( based on average size of a deer ) looks to be about 3.5- 4 inchs from the top of the deers back. IMO bad shot.

Whoever is making those arrows for PS better make a couple dozen more if this is what happens on the HFA.

There is no question it is a bad shot.

How you can say it was an unresponsible shot is what I have an issue with. Even the best of hunters make a less than desirable shot on occasion. If you don't believe that you are kidding yourself. The shot is off by inches, not feet. You talk as if the arrow in in it's donkey or something.

Big John said:

I know you guys get these HUGE deer down there so this little guy is not much for you to care about ok.

Actually MOCraig saw a very similar buck, not quite that wide, both times he hunted with me. Otherwise he was very close to that one. MOC's buck was closer to 16.5" inside.



I did pass sub 15yd shots at him at least twice in the late season.

I agree with you Keith....All you have to do is look at the title under this thread.

heck it doesn't look like that bad of a shot to me. Maybe a couple inches high at best. I can't really judge how far back it is, but it looks to be quartering toward the vitals a bit.

Now, to put things in perspective, the first shot on the 9 pointer this year was right at that height on the deers body. It was at the back of the ribs, however. Complete pass-thru and he lived 13 more days.

I have 4 Deg. difference from the arrows center line angle and the center line of the deer, now I have shot 5 deer in the 28 years I have been hunting, I do not take less than desirable shots. I am not by any means "the best of hunters" I just have a mind set that does not allow for a bad shot. I mean no insault to you by this post, it is the way I shoot.

I probably know of 3 deer that I have killed that were hit worse than that photo. I don't miss very often either. But, it happens. Twice on the same deer even. When I liver shoot a deer, I am intelligent enough to leave the animal be for half of the day or overnight.

PS Did you shoot the deer in the pic? If so was it recovered?

fornicate no I didn't shoot that deer. If I had shot that mother fornicater I would have by the Grace of God found it no less than 6 months later.

Thanks PS, for making me spew coke on my computer keyboard.

PS, I have to say that you are one ethical huntin mofo...not giving up the search for as long as six months. Tritoon you have been here long enough to swallow before you read.