Where to aim for neck shots

[VSS]

It’s a very good point, I have a shot cam that a review the footage from and I always check the spot of with a dog just in case. Touch wood but I’ve only had it happen once and the deer was found by the dog.

But according to your post in another thread, you don't yet have a dog...

Post 147. Fishing season…

I remember a young lad, 18 and a keen fisherman, telling me that he could place his bait 200 yards out with his fancy beachcaster rod. We were stood on my yard at the time, chatting about shooting and fishing and stuff. So, I said to him, "you reckon you could cast as far as that gate?" pointing at the relevant gate. He measured up the distance by eye, did a few imaginary casting movements, and said "well I think so. Just about".
Funny thing is, the place where we were standing was exactly where I set up my bench to bore sight a new scope, and that gate is what I attach my mark to. The distance is exactly 50 yards.

 

[75]

my avarage shot during the day is between 300 to 800m because often I can’t get much closer and there all through the shoulder. It is quite remarkable with the technology today how accurate you can be at long range.

So how many of those "misses" do you bother to follow up on 800yds away over clear fell? Or do you never miss?

I've done my share of long range stuff and consistently first shot on a 4" target at 800yds over variable terrain with no wind flags and no sighter...

@admin - can we close this thread now before it gets really silly.

 

[jp 7saum]

But according to your post in another thread, you don't yet have a dog...


I remember a young lad, 18 and a keen fisherman, telling me that he could place his bait 200 yards out with his fancy beachcaster rod. We were stood on my yard at the time, chatting about shooting and fishing and stuff. So, I said to him, "you reckon you could cast as far as that gate?" pointing at the relevant gate. He measured up the distance by eye, did a few imaginary casting movements, and said "well I think so. Just about".
Funny thing is, the place where we were standing was exactly where I set up my bench to bore sight a new scope, and that gate is what I attach my mark to. The distance is exactly 50 yards.

i dot have my owns dog, but i'm still living at home so i can use my fathers and it come out with me each night but im leaving home in 3 months and thats why i'm needing to buy my own. i completely understand if you think i'm making this stuff up but if you go onto the channel i posted in the above thread then hopefully youll get some proof.

 

[Utectok]

I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who can consistently hit a 6” target at 800m first shot. For me I have a 4” target at 300m and if it’s not to windy I’ll hit that nearly every time yesterday 5 out of 5 nothing special but fun. I have a 6” target at 700m and yesterday managed 3 hits out of 19 shots, its always swirling windy as it’s across a valley. I’m sure I could do better but it is a good leveller! I suppose if your shooting elk it’s a bigger target but for uk deer 800m is a very very very long way.

 

[Utectok]

Here’s an expert in action

 

[75]

Here’s an expert in action

I liked that video. A good leveller. Although even at the end the dude was delusional. He was hitting about 1 in 3 at 300-400yds and still reckoned his ethical hunting range was "300yds all day and maybe 400 on good day"

 

[Utectok]

I liked that video. A good leveller. Although even at the end the dude was delusional. He was hitting about 1 in 3 at 300-400yds and still reckoned his ethical hunting range was "300yds all day and maybe 400 on good day"

I know crazy ehh

 

[75]

I know crazy ehh

Reminded me of someone on this thread

 

[Utectok]

A stalker I know took an American out who kept saying “if I can see it I can shoot it” and wanted to shoot deer at 7-800m or so the stalker persuaded him to wait an they got to about 150m of the stag…. Which the American managed to miss…….

 

[terrier1]

It very simple take the shot that you are comfortable and confident that you can achieve. When out stalking there are a lot of factors to be considered.
The older I get and I suppose the more experienced I get I believe patience is one thing that makes a good shot.

 

[Rhodesianjess]

I have a friend who still is a PH in Zimbabwe. He had two American clients at the same camp as a quiet, unassuming British chap. Conversation around the braai led to the American chaps asking who were the better hunters,them or the British chap.
He answered along the lines of " shooting baboon at 400 yards with high magnification scope isn't really hunting. This chap here (British) has shot anything more than 100 yards away, one bushbuck taken at 15 paces. He's a hunter"
Don't know the outcome but I can imagine. It's one of his favourite tales so presumably there's some truth in it.

 

[Utectok]

There was a guy on FB asking about skull prep as he wanted to immortalise a hind he had head shot at 200m. The skull clearly showed a bullet hole going through the side of the upper jaw and how the thing died I don’t know. But not something I’d be immortalising !!!! I’d say a properly head shot deer wouldn’t have much skull to immortalise?!

 

[VSS]

! I’d say a properly head shot deer wouldn’t have much skull to immortalise?!

Not a lot:





(130 grain .270, exactly between the eyes).

 

[Utectok]

Not a lot:
View attachment 356018

(130 grain .270, exactly between the eyes).

Youch that stung a bit

 

[VSS]

Youch that stung a bit

I wouldn't normally take such a gory photo, but I wanted a record to use as a comparison between the effect of the 270, and the effect of the 243, with exactly the same shot placement and similar range.

 

[DEHL1980]

have you got the .243 comparison yet?

 

[billy_boyle_2010]

On quad sticks I find I get very little horizontal variation in groups but a little vertical.

I have only ever shot 2 deer in the head/neck. Both times it was inside 70 and facing away from me.

Using quad sticks- I aimed at the base of the skull. Both smashed the skull and atlas area. Instant death. If my bullet had gone high- it would have gone through the skull. Low- and it would have been a v high neck shot. Perfect.

But I don't like it tbh. Chest all the way for me.

 

[Biathlonjimmy]

I'm not a big fan of neck shots side on as there are nearly always other options. It's mainly because of my own lack of ability to visualise where the spine runs in the neck side on especially in bucks/stags.

Front and back it makes absolute sense and the beauty is that the centre line is true.

Having said this, I shot my first CWD on weds. High neck at 107yds as all I could see was the top of the neck&head as well as its backside.It was couched in a hedge bottom by a bank out of the wind. I barked, whistled, shouted. It wouldn't stand. Clean and tidy. I shot another two bucks and a doe to top off a great outing. The other three were all h/l shot.

 

[25 Sharps]

Not a lot:

View attachment 356018

(130 grain .270, exactly between the eyes).

Yeah but was it nudging 1/2 a mile ??

 

[Tazz]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is neck shots often split the oesophagus.

That sounds really impressive (Will now Google it)