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.
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Here is the next shot. Again same as before you are at full draw. Where do you shoot?
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Here's where I pick.
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I'll do some more tom.
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 :)
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on the second one I'd pull the shot back a bit
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.
Forgot my elk shot. I look here. Gives me a bit of room for error.
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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.
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.
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.
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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:
I would pull the muley shot bout 3 inches left, exiting thru the heart
Miss the offside shoulder blade that way, clean pass thru
I would be letting some wood fly. Right on with both.
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 :(
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.
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.
I would go with RF on both!!
That log behind the elk - see it? That's where I'm shooting. :laughing:
QuoteOriginally 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!
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!
Same, I'd take the deer back a couple inches and the elk a couple inches back and up.......both dream shots! let-r-fly!
Just like TD, I'd shoot the mulie a few inches left of the dot.
I missed the elk. Right at the dot, but over it's back. I always miss high from that close.
Steve, I can believe he passed that one, I can't believe he passed the other one later :eek:
Just like TD, I'd shoot the mulie a few inches left of the dot.
I missed the elk. Right at the dot, but over it's back. I always miss high from that close.
QuoteOriginally posted by steadman:
Forgot my elk shot. I look here. Gives me a bit of room for error.
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thats the spot, lots of room for the arrow right there! :thumbsup:
I picked the same spot on the muley. The elk has a nice sharp pointed line showing you where to put the arrow. I wouldn't put it back further than that, simply because they're probably gonna move a little when they hear the string drop.
Here is the bull Bill passed on later in the hunt. He had a few more days to go, and was just enjoying the hunt too much. Just for everyones info I have Bill's permission to use the photo's
What a STUD!!!!
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that's just plumb crazy.
crazy, crazy I tell ya crazy.
Course if I tried to stick that one ( after recovering from my mild heart attack) who knows where the arrow woulda went...
I don't think I could have hit that elk if he was 5 yards away. I would still be looking at horn.
I would take both shots and aim right at the red dots! Only seven more months till Elk season!
Passed him up?! I wouldn't hesitate for a second if it was first day, first morning, and first elk I saw. He would be in my freezer and on my wall :goldtooth:
:eek: Holy smokes what a bull!That first bull is not that shabby either.I think I need to hunt or apply for this unit!Anbody know where?
Oh yea the dots, Steadman has got them pegged.
Jeff you could start applying for the rest of your life and probably never draw this unit. Gotta Love UT! But Ole' Steve might get lucky!
Whew, that second bull took my breath away. What an animal!
I hear yea steadman it took me 19 years to draw AZ and they gave me my second choice.That kind of bull is why I aggrivate myself with the draw can't win if yea don't play.
I need to go and perforate my elk target now,Thase pics have got my fire lit for september.
Your right you can't win if you don't play. When you get to 15 for UT let me know, we will see what unit is the best then :thumbsup:
Please Lord just give me the opportunity to take both those shots some day!!
I would like to chime in, but I'm not sure how to put a dot on the animal where I would shoot it, can anyone tell me how please?
frassettor:
when you have uploaded the pic to photobucet and see among the others in youre album, you clic right and then choose the function "edit" you can then choose a drawing function, and mar a spot in the pic. Then you have to save it as a copy and then you can show it here the normel way.
Hope that is understandable.
I'd have to pass on both, I've only got my 40# bow with me and it's not enough. :smileystooges: