Anyone make a deer target that show more then just the heart and lungs ? Looking for something that sho les the spine , nerve system, dead spots ect.
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I am not a bow hunter so I shoot my deer farther forward. It irks me to watch TV programs where the deer of my dreams walks out, and a rifle hunter shoots it so far back that it runs away like an archery shot. My deer don’t run like that. Mostly, they don’t run at all. I guess the film company needs footage of tracking after the shot.

In the above pic the bone is correct but the lungs actually drop down as far as the hart. So you can actually follow front leg up and shoot right above the elbow, in the ">" and get a lot of good stuff he needs. Your better off a little too far forward than a little too far back. IMO green dot is getting close to too far back.

All the targets with body parts are good, but what all of them also need is an X marks the spot as Trapset gave us. Leave nothing to the imagination. Heart shot, high shoulder, whatever. Show the shooter exactly where they ought to be aiming.

Did that with a nephew last fall.....hist first deer hunt. I asked what his aim point would be.....he wasn't sure. I showed him........he hit it.......deer dropped where it was standing. Didn't hurt he hammered it with a 30-06, but he still hammered it.

Exactly. Would love something that's showed ALL the kills shots not just the classic ones.

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Punch em 1/2 way up behind the shoulder. Dead deer..

Dead spots?

Theres recoverable kill shots and not-so-recoverable kill shots. The ones not generally shown fall into the later camp.

As for dead spots, do you mean what some call, "The Void"?

I’ll look and see what we use for our youth hunts. We always set a life size paper target out so the kids can see and understand where to shoot and why, it’s like some of those shown. We’ll have them dry fire on the target first to get used to the trigger, then give them one shot to “kill” the deer.

I think a lot of confusion comes in with “right behind the shoulder”. IMO the best shot, with an arrow, is more like 3/8 of the way up and right through the shoulder, but just back of the shoulder bones. Like in the pic I marked above. It’s actually just above the elbow when leg is straight down.

The term “behind the shoulder” ends up with a lot of shots being too far back. IMO our brain naturally divides the main body in half, much like it centers the front blade in the ring of a peep sight. Especially with people new to hunting.

Great post .. scrotum would be a nice addition as well

Our life size buck metal silhouette at the muzzleloader club has a hinged pecker. Clangs pretty good when you smack it with a 54 round ball.

With a bow I basically aim where your mark is but about 3” lower. Every deer I’ve shot always drop some before impact. Seems if I aim for your mark I’ll either hit top of lungs or spine.
And like you, my deer rarely run, or run far. Most just go back to what they were doing or walk off then start that head turning like they’re lost, then fall over.
Son started bow hunting last year and that freaked him out. He watched too many TV shows where they yell at the deer before shooting, and the deer takes off covering 100yds or more. He watched all three of his fall last year.

... Agree with your aim point due to noise reaction (and being elevated).. but y’all got different deer over there ...a top of heart broadhead shot deer runs like a scalded dog around here lol

The "ok" shot - kisserbuttonbunghole" shot with an arrow tipped a deer over foe me years ago. 12 ft bloodstained 3foot wide. Sunk the arrow to the nock.

Never had one bleed that much or tip over faster xcept an errant spine shot once.

I tried it once . OUTDOOR LIFE mag showed it in a review of deadly shots Available. Called it the " ok" shot

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I taught my daughter to go straight up the inside of the legs, halfway up the body and pull the trigger! Killed everything and haven’t recovered a bullet yet. Read a article in Outdoor Life that said the lung shot was for blackpowder guns and we should be shooting front shoulder. Still a big target and everything goes in there, nerves, spine, blood veins. Makes sense.

I also sight my guns in 3.5” high at 100 yds to get the longest PBR. Aim right everything out to 300 yds as fast as you can and pull the trigger.

For bow season, at broadside I anchor right behind the leg crease, quartering away- I try to visualize the 3rd rib. Here's a pic of quartering toward through the front shoulder and tracked the buck 35 yards. They seem to run out of air faster than blood.