Butt Shot???

[SWMontana1]

Had a buddy have a bull at 30 yards, broadside. He hit in the hindquarters... don't ask me how, I have no clue how you do that!! He kept quiet and said the thing died in about 10 minutes about 50 yards downhill.... anyone heard of something like this??? Could a hindquarter shot really be that deadly??? I've never head of something so strange, but then again, I don't ass shoot my elk but whatever works, I guess!

 

[Mudranger1]

Happens on tv all the time

 

[npaden]

If you hit them in the femoral artery they will bleed out pretty quick.

You just need to be a really good shot to make sure you hit the artery!

 

[SWMontana1]

Happens on tv all the time

Guess I need to watch more pedestrian shows than "On Your Own Adventures"

I haven't see seen/heard of it happening... crazy that it happens once in awhile.

 

[SWMontana1]

If you hit them in the femoral artery they will bleed out pretty quick.

You just need to be a really good shot to make sure you hit the artery!

Makes sense. Thanks! I'll stick with the vitals....... for now

 

[1_pointer]

I saw a doe drop dead that was shot by another hunter with the arrow sticking out of the hindquarter. Was bleeding like crazy and had went about 70yds after being shot. The femoral artery carries LOTs of the red stuff...

 

[SWMontana1]

I saw a doe drop dead that was shot by another hunter with the arrow sticking out of the hindquarter. Was bleeding like crazy and had went about 70yds after being shot. The femoral artery carries LOTs of the red stuff...

I was just surprised that it took down an elk that fast... makes sense with such a large artery running through there. Sounds like my friend got super lucky on a piss poor shot!!

 

[MinnesotaHunter]

I think your assessment is accurate. I am glad for the elk's sake that he hit the femoral and not guts.

 

[Big Sky]

I don't know that I would call it a piss-poor shot. It is an effective shot and the femoral artery is a major and prominant artery. Super easy to hit...no, but not impossible by any means either.

 

[noharleyyet]

Montana hear shot.

 

[SWMontana1]

I don't know that I would call it a piss-poor shot. It is an effective shot and the femoral artery is a major and prominant artery. Super easy to hit...no, but not impossible by any means either.

Piss poor shot in regards to that he was probably aiming 2 and a half feet to right (the vitals).

 

[Big Sky]

Got'cha.

 

[1_pointer]

Montana hear shot.

That would have been funnier without the typo...

 

[SWMontana1]

That would have been funnier without the typo...

I don't get it....

 

[tjones]

hear should have been heart. Montana should have been Texas.

 

[SWMontana1]

hear should have been heart. Montana should have been Texas.

Ahhhhh... thanks! Wow I feel dumb. What can I say.... it's Monday.

 

[ismith]

Ahhhhh... thanks! Wow I feel dumb. What can I say.... it's Monday.

Actually, its Tuesday.

 

[Big Sky]

Actually, its Tuesday.

Now that is funny right there. Thanks for the laugh. Sorry it was at someone else's expense, but this is just too funny.

 

[SWMontana1]

Actually, its Tuesday.

Today is clearly not my day. WOW...

 

[zadvorney]

I've made that shot on a deer. Sitting on the ground my lower limb hit my pant leg and deflected the bow. A slam dunk 20 yard shot turned bad. I saw that the arrow hit in the pocket just above the hind leg and below the spine. I thought oh crap but could see the deer was bleeding out fast. The 2X2 ran 100 yards in the direction of the truck and passed on a trail out. The "he" turned out to be a Doebro. A heshe or hermaphrodite. It had all the parts of both. A shot gone bad and I'd rather not do that again but deadly just the same. If you cut your femoral in the groin area you have less than thirty seconds to live. If a buddy puts his heal on the wound sight he might be able to apply enough pressure to save you IF you are in the hospital parking lot.