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Thread: Blue wildebeest shot placement
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13-06-2016, 13:09 #1
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13-06-2016, 13:12 #2
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
Im on my phone now and cant see your picture but this is where I shoot them.
Low and for the middle of the heart in that picture
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13-06-2016, 13:31 #3
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
Both look like they're correct. The animal is standing at a different angle in each, so vitals will be hit in the same place in both cases.
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13-06-2016, 13:36 #4
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
Yes, just used two pics to show different angles.
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13-06-2016, 13:45 #5
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
Be careful
Aiming low is only useful when the shot is guaranteed. But if you are shooting from sticks or some unstable platform I would not try and hit the heart dead center, like you are.
Moving your point if impact just a little bit higher, meaning aiming for the top of the heart, gives you more room for error and would still kill the animal every bit as fast as a direct heart shot.
The main arteries are situated on top and destroying them put's the animal down fast, missing them still means a shot in the middle of the lungs.
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13-06-2016, 13:51 #6
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
Thanks Messor. The first pic, given the angle, should it move back or is it okay?
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13-06-2016, 14:11 #7
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
I'd leave it right there, and just aim 2 inches higher if required depending on the distance and shooting platform.
Up to date I have seen a couple of people miss low because they have studied these animal charts and try and hit the heart orientated low in the chest.
For the average person the vitals are big when you aim in the middle of them.
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13-06-2016, 14:11 #8
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
But since it's Mr Stone's pic lets get him to comment on his animal :)
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13-06-2016, 14:23 #9
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13-06-2016, 15:05 #10
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Re: Blue wildebeest shot placement
In my experience, a shot just above the heart, through the big arteries and the lungs, kill just as quickly, if not more so, than a shot to the centre of the heart. So, like Messor said, raise the dot 2".
As a rule of thumb, on the larger antelope, the shot should be placed between 1/3 and 1/2 way up the body.
It is important not to shoot the big antelope too high, it is equally important not to shoot them too low, as pointed out by Driepoot. During the past couple of years we lost two eland that were shot in the brisket. The brisket, on an antelope this large, is deeper than most hunters realise.
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