It is an area on the high part of the shoulder blade where the neck and spine meet.

That deer foundered

No he is dead

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That's where we aim!!!!!!

Here is one that Jeffbird provided

One that size you just shoot between the eyes

All of the things are just a tad bit high. Maybe like .5" lower is where we aim.
Yeah. Probably not because it will damage the rack and brain with my little 22-250

Didnt know they had those.... i dont dout they are nasty

This shot dumps them.

No guess work involved on How far they are gonna run with this shot


And for all you proponents of copper and bonded bullets, Ive been using this shot with 100% success since 99' with interlocks and corelockts

If it ain't broke....

I usually shoot just behind the shoulder, because you waste less meat that way (and they will usually leave a good blood trail/die quiclkly). That being said, I have no problem using the high shoulder shot if I am on small acreage or close to a neighboring property. I have never had to track an animal shot in the high shoulder, but you do lose some meat.

no one wants to eat sholder scrap anyway lol

I put that shot on a buck with 223 and 55 grain v-max, he didnt move. I wouldnt try it again but it worked once. The hi shoulder shot anchors them, shot my first several deer with it.

Personaly I would take all of those red dots and move them down one dots width, they all look a tad hi for me, not that they wouldnt work, but if it was my cross hairs they would be lower.

That's true for a flat, broadside shot. Once the shot takes on any angle, the aim point must be adjusted accordingly. The key is making sure the bullet will pass through the heart/lung area.

And this includes angles from above. I've seen hunters wound deer and never recover them because they didn't take into account the angle of the shot created by the height of their stand. And bullet drop on more lenghty shots can increase the angle of the shot even more.

With this shot your are looking to anchor the deer in its tracks by the impact of the bullet on the spine/neck area.
I truly prefer the deer angled to me and you put the bullet at the same height on the body but move it to the crease in the neck/shoulder area. Their butt will hit the ground and they will not kick one bit. They just disappear from the herd. Best shot in the world if shooting more than one deer in a group since all the other deer just look up, look around seeing nothing wrong or out of place and then go back to eating.

I usually aim here. Looks like it might be lower than most.

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What ever you are comfortable with and works. Thats what I'd use.

They aren't real hard to kill....

This. Saves the shoulder meat and typically crumples them up ASAP.

why do people worry about saving sholder meat lol theres hardly enough meat to do anything with...

Why be wasteful if you don't have to, but I guess I was raised different where it was the animal not the horns that mattered. But then again my parent and grand parents were raised dirt poor and to them shooting a deer meant having some decent meat on the table.