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.

 

I'll do some more tom.

Ryan again, I love this stuff    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    

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.

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.

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.  

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.    

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!