100gr sp I go neck if I feel confident I can get it done. Basically aim where the neck meets the body imagining a spine. Otherwise double lung heart foreleg shot.
As the title says, what's your favorite aiming point on deer, with the 243 and 95/100gr partition? How high success ratios with these shots. I would prefer the traditional heart lung shots ie, right behind front leg. I would rather not take shoulder shots, due to high meat loss that way.
Do the partitions usually exit on those shots?
100gr sp I go neck if I feel confident I can get it done. Basically aim where the neck meets the body imagining a spine. Otherwise double lung heart foreleg shot.
The center of the chest right behind the front leg. It gives you a large room for error and leave a BIG hole on the backside. With that said for some reason the last 5 critters have fallen to a high liver shot( I can blame the wind for three but it was me on the other two)=straight down! Have found the Partition to be a great bullet as long as you keep it away from meat!
Great thanks. I have taken the same neck shots before but last one was a 168gr TTSX. Needless to say is was a DRT.
I like quartering away shots. Put it right behind shoulder. It takes out the heart and opposite shoulder. Does in south MS are <110 lbs and most bucks are <170. Not much meat on front shoulders on does here.
I was taught the crease shot and try to do that but on a large buck I'll take the high shoulder shot. I've had 3 deer shot there with my .243 and they are all DRT and hitting the shoulders and spine creates a lot of shrapnel. My first big buck I shot when I was 12 and though I hit the shoulder and spine (4-6 inches gone) it's lungs had been pretty messed up by bone.
I have never used the partition always used the Sie 85 BTHP and a neck shot or a heart and lung shot.
heart/lung shot if broadside of course
dont really like the texas heart shot, as it makes a pretty big mess.....LOL (I did have one of these this year too, on a doe running dead away from me.)
I also had a neck shot this year as well, but pulled the shot slightly and dang near missed it completely. Ended up just grazing it in the throat. Looked more like I slit it in the throat with a knife instead of shooting it...LOL
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I enjoy eating heart, and I like my liver. Therefore, I go to the lungs or the neck, depending on the shot presented.
Do the high shoulder shots always destroy a lot of meat? I am not opposed to tracking, and it's usually dry around here, so sign shows up pretty well, but DRT is always good. On a close shot I will go for the neck, but longer ranges require other options.
For those that use the partition, and on a heart lung shot, do you get exits?
I feel pretty certain that a Barnes TSX would give that, but I have a lot of the partitions to use up.
Hit a mulie years ago looking straight at me with the 243 and a Partion. The partition did not exit but it come close A broadside shot on a deer with the 243 they will exit with a big hole within 300 yards! The frag damage is something to behold.
OK hope to see it myself this fall. Thanks
I use Partitions for 99% of my hunting ammo and have taken several deer/pronghorns with them. Never recovered a single bullet so far. I shoot for the offside shoulder on quartering shots and the center of the heart/lung area on broadside shots. I have never experienced excessive meat loss with a Partition, I consider a fist sized chunk of meat acceptable but usually don't loose that much.
Bob
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Thanks Bob
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