Posts Tagged ‘blood trailing’

Shot Placement

Shot placement, shot placement, shot placement. More important than caliber, bullet weight, velocity, or energy, shot placement is the most important consideration if you seek to quickly and humanely take deer. Proper shot placement will always guarantee quick, clean, one-shot kills. Knowing where to place your shot requires you to know which organs to target, [...]

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After the Shot

Shooting a deer is an exciting moment that is the product of practice, planning and preparation. While the shot is the ultimate climax of any hunt, success hasn’t really been achieved until you have recovered your deer. The moments immediately following the shot are some of the most important in the recovery process. By observing [...]

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Blood Trailing

Many might think that blood trailing is only something done by bowhunters, but most deer taken with a rifle don’t immediately fall dead when shot, so there is almost always some blood trailing to do during the recovery process. Blood trailing isn’t difficult when a good shot is made as the hemorrhaging that results from [...]

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Field Dressing: The Gutless Method

There is another way to field dress deer that has come to be known as the gutless method. The gutless method is just that, it eliminates the need to remove the intestines and internal organs from the deer. Rather than starting on the inside and working out, as in traditional field dressing, with the gutless [...]

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