Whitetail Shot Placement

[Bonebuster]

When an animal is "curled" like the one in the picture, not only does big bone block the preferred entrance, but the hide will move when he straightens out and the hole(s) in the hide will not match with the hole(s) in the body cavity...no blood on the ground.

[KSdan]

Put an arrow right above the elbow in the triangulated muscle in your pic- dead deer!

[Robert Honaker]

come straight up tight behind the front leg and then drag him to the truck.

[Skipmaster1]

I stay as close to the front leg as possible. I prefer quartering away. The vitals of deer are more forward than many believe. I have close to 200 deer and always examine where I hit them and what I actually hit. On a broadside deer I would not want to hit more than just a few inches behind the crease, the closer to it the better.

I took this deer this season with a Snuffer. This deers vitals seemed to be a bit farther forward than even i expected, (possibly because he was so full of acorns that his diaphram was pushed forward?) But it shows why "textbook shots" are sometimes not recovered. All I hit was guts the liver and 1 lung. The deer didn't go far and left a huge bloodtrail but was still alive hours later

The entrance
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/IMG_1332.jpg

The exit
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/IMG_1326.jpg

The liver
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/IMG_1336.jpg

The lung
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/IMG_1337.jpg