ElkNut
Yellow red green White blue black White yellow.
Which yellow is everyone shooting at???
Top row: Orange, Red, Green Middle: Yellow, Blue, Black Bottom: White, Pink
At least that's what I see on my iMac with Retina display.
Whocares. That might have been tongue-in-cheek, but since I probably won't be there again anyway, I don't mind saying. Colorado Unit 2. My second time in 6 years.
But I wouldn't recommend that shot for every one. Depends on your equipment, shot distance, and your experience/composure when confronted with the beast. You could wait for him to keep coming, but it's just as likely he'll spook and bolt. Or, like mine, he may not/probably won't go farther into the water. Once a critter is in close range, and offers a shot you KNOW you're confident with, I see no need to wait for something just a bit better. In other words, if this is your first elk, it doesn't much matter how many bullseyes you've made on targets.
I don’t think people are telling others to shoot that spot. It’s where they would shoot.
Too many variables to tell someone else to shoot.
Does that person fall apart at the shot Can they Even control themselves on a broadside shot and hit a 6” circle on an animal at that particular range.
If you don’t know how that person reacts under pressure
Or you aren’t yet sure how you act under pressure, it’s probably not the shot for you.
Being able to hit a target that size in the backyard doesn’t count.
Matt
I've also passed that shot on an elk, because he was at a wallow, and nervous and had me spotted. He gave me a broadside at 27 just a few moments later.
Tdvorak, I'm curious what you believe somebody would hit on the elk that would cause him to "die in about a month or three" if they "flub a tiny bit"?
ElkNut
Hitting right on the Black or Green with my setup would take out the left lung and liver. Can't see him going more than a 150yds before bedding from blood loss and that the right lung should start to get blood in it. You would have a 2 hour wait before picking up the trail. But not a good spot to hit. But if you did, I think he's recoverable.
Orange and red to me are two high and would have to punch through the scapula and only get on lung, no liver. If lucky you would find him, but he needs 5 or 6 hours.
Purple and blue are to close to the humerus and bottom of the hard part of the scapula, no shot.
White is to low for me. Could get bottom of heart BUT!!
Yellow would most likely get both lungs, even heart. I only think he will go as far as he can go in 12 second or less. Ed
Although I believe, at least for a few seconds, my pin float would look like cnelks...
To my eye, blue could well be the shoulder joint and left of yellow might pass forward of the near lung and I don’t care to single-lung a bull. Or a cow, or a deer, or....
Ideally, the bull would be headed off to my left and I could get drawn when his head went behind some kind of a screen. If he passed to my right I’d guess I was about to be busted, but he can’t get there without passing through straight-on frontal at pretty short range, which might work if I could get drawn. If I were already at full draw, I’d have to make a gut-check and shoot pretty soon.... or let down and screw the pooch.
Ucsdryder's Link
https://youtu.be/kYiqHSPg64E
I'm staying away from that large knuckle that lies in the middle of those four dots in that picture.
If you project a line thru the yellow dot I don't think you're getting very deep into the chest cavity and may pass thru in front of, or on the front edge of the heart and lungs. I think the yellow dot is pushing it to left and I certainly wouldn't want to go any farther left. If you do I think you're hitting mostly neck rather than chest cavity.
You want to shoot thru the chest cavity and in order to do that you want your arrow to exit behind the off side leg, or farther back or stay in the elk without exiting. If you shoot left of the yellow dot your arrow will exit in front of the off side leg or hit it.
So by shooting left of the yellow dot your entrance hole is a long way in front of the near side leg and your exit is in front of the off side leg or hits it. An arrow that passes thru an elk in front of both front legs never enters the chest cavity or just barely pierces it.
You want your arrow inside the chest cavity and I think yellow is too far left to accomplish that at this angle.
