Hunting Forum

Lngsht27, what we used to call a shoulder shot would be a little forward and a little higher than where BK has marked as the best spot. What I call the high shoulder shot or TV shot goes thru the shoulder blade, thru the backbone, dropping them in their tracks. I've seen the shot placement directions as follow the line of the front leg vertical towards hairline, then aim about 1/3 of the (top to bottom)distance, from the top.
Now, my instinct is to shoot right where BK indicates, but after having to drag a cpl does uphill thru 10 y/o clearcut, this year, I wish I had taken higher shots!

Well I'm not ashamed to say I am a shoulder shooter...and most deer I've taken save archery have been shoulder shots.....This said with one exception a unintentional pull on a bow shot...resulted in a 20yrd drop in her tracks doe kill...through both shoulders...I took my first rifle deer with a 243 60yrd shoulder shot.
he still managed a 50-60 yrds nose plow before dropping.

I hunt in steep hill country and in highly populated high density hunting area...I have had deer stolen on me ...dragged off guts still in them situations...so let me say dropping them in there tracks is a must...and it is usually done with a 3" Breneke 20ga mag and any where from 50-110 yrds...there is a bundle of nerves in the shoulder area that will drop a deer immediately...the fragments from the shattered shoulder even on a high hit will shred lung. Pics of the bow shot ...and other deer that would have gone to properties  I would not have been able to recover them from had the shoulder shot not dropped them

I shoot for the near shoulder when they're quartering toward me and the far shoulder when they're quartering away. I've used a 6.5 mm (.264 caliber) 140 gr. Nosler Partition bullet and broke shoulders on both sides. The bullet only has to hold together and the Partition does. The 6.5 X 55 Swedish can get the job done. I'm sure that with a quality bullet, the .243 and .223 can also. When a fast bullet hits bone going in, bone fragments are your friend.