Big Game Hunting > Bow Hunting
Texas Heart Shot
kentrek:
--- Quote from: jackelope on August 24, 2013, 08:33:44 AM ---How many on here can 1-say exactly where that artery is and 2-hit a target that size every time. 2nd or follow up shot....maybe.
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Anybody have good pics of the target size a bow hunter has when attempting this shot ??
boneaddict:
I can 100% say I have never and will never take it, even with a rifle. I have let multiple animals walk because that was my only shot.
npaull:
Some confusion here - talking about two different shots. Texas heart shot is in the femoral artery in the ham. The other is trans-anal into the abdomen severing mesenteric vessels. Both shots are horrible because there's just no room for error. Yes either is deadly if you make it, but two inches off and you've just got a horribly wounded animal.
dreamunelk:
The femoral artery are approximately .5 inches wide. If you miss and go through the body cavity you have a good chance of hitting something important and it going down quickly. You also have a chance of the animal not going down for a long time and therefore losing it or it no being consumable. Take a shot in the heart/ lung area as we have be taught and that animals is going down.
It puzzles me that people would take a low percentage shot or risk losing meet just because it is the only shot they have. Score another for the anti-hunters.
Smossy:
Thats in the butthole no? How would a butthole shot be your "only available second shot" lol
I wouldnt even be taking pictures of that.
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