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    just an observation,
    I have never seen any type of target with the bullseye being on a back ham.
    - maybe you should contact Glendel with your suggestion


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    I have stuck an arrow in every inch of whitetail from their assholes to their adams apples. I have found most of them and lost some. I have found ham shot deer. I'd guess I've lost ham shot deer. I think the most ethical way to kill a whitetail with an arrow is to shoot him in the heart/lungs. I think some of what you are describing is folks being surprised that they found a deer on a "poor" hit, so they remember and tell the story. To the same point, people always remember the ones that they thought were pumphoused, that somehow got away. The perfectly shot ones that die on schedule aren't notable, and are thus forgotten.

    I also would argue with the point that the goal with an arrow is "acute blood loss", but thats another thread.
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    The last three bucks I have shot have been in the neck and dropped in their tracks.
    If I see one in the morning, he will be shot in the lower neck or front shoulder depending on range and
    position.
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    Back in the day, I shot a bunch with an arrow. I still feel that you need your target to be the area with the most margin for error. Things happen to arrows in flight sometimes and deer can react pretty damn quick to the sound of a bow ..

    Lung shot or tight and a little low behind the shoulder is my preferred aim point. Praying that you are going to cut the Femoral artery is risky business IMHO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trkykilr View Post
    I have stuck an arrow in every inch of whitetail from their assholes to their adams apples. I have found most of them and lost some. I have found ham shot deer. I'd guess I've lost ham shot deer. I think the most ethical way to kill a whitetail with an arrow is to shoot him in the heart/lungs. I think some of what you are describing is folks being surprised that they found a deer on a "poor" hit, so they remember and tell the story. To the same point, people always remember the ones that they thought were pumphoused, that somehow got away. The perfectly shot ones that die on schedule aren't notable, and are thus forgotten.

    I also would argue with the point that the goal with an arrow is "acute blood loss", but thats another thread.
    Great points, and I was simplifying for the sake of getting the discussion started. You articulate the points that’s would punch huge holes in my argument had I claimed my evidence leads to bona-fide, proven results. There is no ethical way to conduct research on this in a manner that excludes the type of human nature bias you so accurately articulate, but I think the amount of information that’s out there warrants a serious effort to get some results that are as free of such bias as possible.

    Your second point...I understand what you are saying, but acute blood loss IS the PRIMARY GOAL. People are going for heart/lung and want a good blood trail to follow; you can lose a deer pretty easily that only runs 200 yards and does not leave a blood trail, and you can just as easily trail and find any deer that runs 3 miles and dies 24 hours later as long as you can find the next drop of blood. I understand that hemo-pneumothorax might actually be the physical factor that stops blood flow to brain and drops the deer, but blood loss is key to killing and finding the deer be it liver, lung, or heart shots.

    I’m bringing this up because as archery hunters, our primary goals regarding the actual “killing of an animal” part of why we hunt are to 1. kill the animal quickly and 2. Recover the animal before meat is lost to animals or spoilage. I think it was just assumed by most people getting into archery that heart/lung area was best kill zone to go for...maybe adapted from experience gun hunting, because major organs are there, and it seems to be the largest target with greatest margin for error. Ok, but... when a deer ducks a string by loading to run, the chest drops much more than the hips when it loads to bolt. Not only does it drop, often the deer will turn to blot in a different direction than he’s facing, and the belly forward is what moves the most when the deer twists to bolt. The back end is pretty much planted, as the deer will thrust with one leg or the other more or less to actually get moving in the direction his head neck and chest has moved toward. Simply put...when a deef reacts, which causes a high percentage of marginal hits, your aim point on the chest moves a lot vs how much your aim point on his ass end moves. When you consider the true kill zone of heat and lungs and how much of that can be covered up with shoulder bones...especially when a deer loads to run...it’s smaller than the kill zone on a ham shot. If you put one lung hits into the “non-lethal hit” category...the kill zone hit probability drops. Then throw in the trickiness of hunters misjudging slightly quartering away vs slightly quartering to. Put it all together...there seems to be way more that can go wrong with the traditional kill shot vs a split ham shot.

    Again, not scientific by any means, but I’d like to start collecting data and trying to get info as unbiased as possible to shed more light on this.

    Surely people do not forget screwing up and shooting a deer in the ham and losing that deer, right? So y’all ask the question when you can wherever you can get some answers. Let’s try to find as many hunters as possible who have arrows a deer in the ham and failed to recover the deer. I’ve asked this question before on a big archery forum, and I did not get one response saying a ham shot deer was lost. Of course, by page 2, the conversation had turned into a nasty bitch session about ethics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nitro5x6's View Post
    Back in the day, I shot a bunch with an arrow. I still feel that you need your target to be the area with the most margin for error. Things happen to arrows in flight sometimes and deer can react pretty damn quick to the sound of a bow ..

    Lung shot or tight and a little low behind the shoulder is my preferred aim point. Praying that you are going to cut the Femoral artery is risky business IMHO.

    I know I’m a long read, but read the first post more closely. Some ham kills are due to femoral artery, no doubt, but most people are not hitting the femoral artery. Deer are bleeding out on ham shots due to the constant motion of the muscles and the enormous % of the deer’s cardiac output that flows to those big muscle groups inhibiting any significant clotting.
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    Interesting thread.


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    indeed

    who knew ECU would be a neck shooter....
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    POD hunters prefer ham shots.

    I don’t judge them at least they are not grown men using a rifle to kill a deer.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigtimber2 View Post
    POD hunters prefer ham shots.

    I don’t judge them at least they are not grown men using a rifle to kill a deer.


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    I always wondered about powdered succinylcholine actually getting in the bloodstream and working. Maybe the ham shot is what killed the deer so quickly and the pods had nothing to very little to do with it.
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    We have a new general surgery group at our hospital, and The third of the three was at work this am. We talked work a bit before devolving into a bowhunting discussion. About ten minutes into ya telling each other about our hunting evolutions, he tells me completely unsolicited, “yeah, I’ve got a good friend who shoots traditional lights out; he started waiting and aiming for the femoral artery about four years ago, and he’s not missed hitting that artery and dropping his deer/elk/antelope within sight since he started that 4 years ago.”

    No shit! I tell him about this thread and my theory on him probably not hitting the FA on all those shots but more likely just massive blood loss due to cardiac output to those muscles. He paused and said, “that’s a good point...he’s good, but I doubt he’s that good.” Me either. Anyway, thought it was pretty interesting that he threw that out there as an extension story while we were just discussing accuracy and/or lack thereof.
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    I have shot two deer in the ham with 2 different results.

    I shot a mule deer that was bedded quartering away hard at 63 yards. I missed my target a few inches and hit the deer between the ham and the backstrap with a Rage. The deer ran 100 yards and died.

    I did not recover my other deer shot in the ham. I was in Illinois in a stand and the wind was gusting 30-40mph. My tree stand was whipping back and forth. A 135” buck ran directly under my stand on a field edge. He stopped at 25 yards quartering away. The wind carried the arrow away from my target and hit the deer directly in the ham. The deer ran out of the field and crossed a deep creek. Having a lighted knock, I saw where he dropped the arrow. The deer stopped at 70 yards looking to where I shot him. He stood still for 5 minutes bleeding the entire time. I could see the leaves covered in blood wirh my binos. After the 5 minutes, he saw a doe and he ran into an adjacent field and I watching him chase does for 15 minutes with a bloody ham. The same deer was spotted the next morning chasing does.

    My arrow got about 5” of penetration before it fell out when he crossed the creek. I’m guessing a hip shot has a higher percentage of recovery with a 2 bladed broadhead then it did with my mechanical head.


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