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Artemas

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How many of y'all, if any, compensate for a deer ducking after shot at let's say 40yds? Do you aim lower or right on a double lung?
 
i always hold on the lower half. most misses are over-the-back. 40 yds is out of my comfortable range for a live target.
 
stik said:
i always hold on the lower half. most misses are over-the-back. 40 yds is out of my comfortable range for a live target.
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X2! It is always best to hold low on the target, because of trajectory differences when shooting from angles and also to compensate the deer loading its legs for the jump. If you hold low most of the time you will take out the heart, or mid lung if they load their bodies. However, 40yds is quite a distance when your trying to take a deer loading for the jump into consideration.
 
I know you see it every day from the TV pros, but I will never bleat at a deer again (while bow hunting) to make it stop walking. If you watch the slo-mo on TV, you will see that almost every time that it puts the deer on alert, and the deer drops 18-20" at the sound of the shot. I'll take my chances of compensating for the walking speed and hope to have a deer that isn't poised to try to run into the next county at the first noise.
 
scn said:
I know you see it every day from the TV pros, but I will never bleat at a deer again (while bow hunting) to make it stop walking. If you watch the slo-mo on TV, you will see that almost every time that it puts the deer on alert, and the deer drops 18-20" at the sound of the shot. I'll take my chances of compensating for the walking speed and hope to have a deer that isn't poised to try to run into the next county at the first noise.
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Hmmm. Thats an interesting idea. I suspect the couple does I have spined over the years have been due to ducking and almost always bleat to stop them.

Have to put my target on a wagon with a rope and have someone pull it at walking speed to try and judge flight timing and distance.
 
i agree with scn, i noticed that a long time ago and never understood why some do it. with a rifle is one thing but i dont want a deer on alert at all before i shoot with a bow. not saying it is THE reason but a deer stopping ready to bolt is just looking for some odd noise or a reason to do so.
 
fishboy1 said:
scn said:
I know you see it every day from the TV pros, but I will never bleat at a deer again (while bow hunting) to make it stop walking. If you watch the slo-mo on TV, you will see that almost every time that it puts the deer on alert, and the deer drops 18-20" at the sound of the shot. I'll take my chances of compensating for the walking speed and hope to have a deer that isn't poised to try to run into the next county at the first noise.
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Hmmm. Thats an interesting idea. I suspect the couple does I have spined over the years have been due to ducking and almost always bleat to stop them.

Have to put my target on a wagon with a rope and have someone pull it at walking speed to try and judge flight timing and distance.
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Crappie Luck just might pull that wagon for ya. :D
 
W.Seay said:
ive never had one duck my string and ive killed them from 3 yards to 62 yards.
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It's a safe bet that if you had all of those shots on slow-mo video , that you would see that many of the deer did indeed duck at the sound of the shot . You may not of missed those deer , but I bet they dropped a little .
 
A relaxed deer rarely ducks , but a nervous deer most likely will duck at the sound of the shot . Along with scn , I too have noticed that stopping them with a bleat when they are close will put them on alert .
 
no doubt, they all duck, but I was talking about none of them have ducked low enough for my arrow not to hit the vitals.
 
I'm with JCDeer...hold on the heart and a duck=double lung. I bleated to stop 2 of the 7 I shot last year and neither had time to get out of the way. I'll take a broadside alert deer inside 20 yards vs a moving calm deer. At that range they can't move enough to make a difference with a heart hold.
 

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