Shot Placement

hanshi said:

I always imagine a slightly "smaller than soccer ball" size sphere in the chest of a deer. This is what I aim at. A large number of the deer I've taken were taken with some degree of a quartering shot. For the more or less broadside shots this puts the prb in the "c-d" area; this corresponds with the soccer ball analogy. For quartering shots I'll aim for the opposite leg, which again puts the shot on the soccer ball. I never shoot at the neck but have accidentally killed a few with that shot when they "twitched" as the trigger was pulled. I guess they sometimes are startled by the flint lock snap; I just don't know.

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