Your Move, Episode 1

[Dhoey07]

I'd shoot and it would probably look like this 

[h20hunter]

Dead tree and watch out caller 'cause an elk be runn'n your way!

 

[Rainier10]

DRock and H20 have the right area at 20 yards. I am aiming just about 2" lower than H20's red dot.  jrebel's addition of the bone really shows what you are working around.

Man I love these, very real world and never a slam dunk shot, always something to think about.

[jrebel]

Leg goes forward moving the bone and I hit him where the red dot is.  To early and you hit bone.....I hit both lungs, maybe top of hart, maybe liver. 

[Russ McDonald]

I would have given a grunt then run out there and stabbed him with my arrow  being that close.  Seriously though I would put my shot about where I put the dot.  Being I have never shot at an elk this is just a SWAG.

[h20hunter]

Heres a good one that shows a shot close to this angle. The bull is a bit more broadside but I thought it does a good job (especially in the slow me) of showing the shoulder blade moving in relation to the area of impact we are talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWH_PP0PAUc

[jrebel]

Cool video 

[Russ McDonald]

Or another thought.  I would hope D-Rock425 is with me and I have him with his hunting knife in his hand and throw him like a dart at the elk.  Very caveman like 

[WSU]

The last two dots look too far back to me.  If you look at the exit, it appears to be middle of the guts.  From that angle it looks like one lung and some guts. 

Also, the video doesn't look quartering to at all.  The near leg is actually forward of the far leg.  I'd wait for another step and the hug tight behind the shoulder.

[h20hunter]

Here.....skip to 11:45......they even put a red dot on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYsFPJtSGQ

[jrebel]

Here.....skip to 11:45......they even put a red dot on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYsFPJtSGQ

Wow...that is almost straight on.....

[h20hunter]

I think it looks more "head on" because of the camera angle compared to shooter angle. Regardless I thought it was a good example of the shot we are discussing. Also....who doesn't love to see a shot like that and then a nice bull take a faceplant!

[jrebel]

I think it looks more "head on" because of the camera angle compared to shooter angle. Regardless I thought it was a good example of the shot we are discussing. Also....who doesn't love to see a shot like that and then a nice bull take a faceplant!

I have seen a couple animals shot and watched them fall with archery equipment.  Nothing better in the world.  Fist pumps and high fives are in order when you see that.   

[Encore 280]

I haven't hunted with a bow yet but I'm thinking with those Savora broadheads that radsav is putting out that it's a done deal where the bull stands.

[Russ McDonald]

That was almost like that 13 year old kids shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrWYuh_s1RQ
But H2O is right the angle of the camera is different then the shooter but the picture that the elk we are putting dots on is more broadside then the one in the last video