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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: CP on May 18, 2015, 09:17:52 AM

Title: Shot placement Archery #2
Post by: CP on May 18, 2015, 09:17:52 AM: Easy shot with a rifle but archery? I think I'd pass on this one:
Title: Re: Shot placement Archery #2
Post by: CP on May 18, 2015, 09:26:23 AM: Quote from: Sundance on May 18, 2015, 09:20:48 AM
under 30 yards and not moving I'd take the pocket shot.

Where would you put it?
Title: Re: Shot placement Archery #2
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on May 18, 2015, 09:29:37 AM: I don't see a problem with this shot as long as it's not moving.
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Post by: MLBowhunting on May 18, 2015, 09:30:16 AM: :yeah:
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Post by: jrebel on May 18, 2015, 09:33:05 AM: Anywhere in the circle kills this elk. Don't get too far forward.....or you run the risk of missing the off side lung.
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Post by: LeviD1 on May 18, 2015, 09:37:54 AM: :yeah:

Not walking ide take that shot all day.
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Post by: WSU on May 18, 2015, 10:46:59 AM: I did that 2 years ago. Got liver and lungs. She made it about 40 yards straight down hill before she died.
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Post by: Tbob on May 18, 2015, 01:48:25 PM: I'd take that red circle shot all day long..
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Post by: coachcw on May 18, 2015, 08:10:00 PM: That's the shot we look for
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Post by: Vandal44 on May 19, 2015, 05:10:55 AM: I took that shot on a spike several years ago. I put the arrow right where that circle is dead elk, it was a dead elk in less than 75 yards. I got both lungs it was an easy tracking, and a hard pack out.
Title: Re: Shot placement Archery #2
Post by: Elknut1 on May 19, 2015, 07:02:15 AM: Yes sir, dead elk there in the X or or top of 0.

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