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Ok so you've screwed up, that 400 class bull (buck, boar, ram whatever) was standing pretty as a picture. You took your time you estimated the range to be about 250 yards. A long shot but you are prepared and your shooting ole faithful.
Just as you break the trigger Mr. B&C lunges forward. You see the bull hunch up and kick his hind legs kick up. A moment later a soggy whump returns to you on the gentle wind current. The bull is gone into the shinery and headed down hill. A gut shot!!
You run like a madman to the ridge line and there he is trotting painfully away at about 150 yards. The only shot you've got is right up the ole tailpipe, he is straight away and he isn't turning. He's headed straight down hill. It's now or never, 20 more yards and he's over the next drop off and into the green abyss of tangled oak shinery and hellish blow downs in the canyon floor.
My question do you shoot and try to break him down with a hip shot? Or do you let him go and try to find him later?
I'll tell you my answer right now. I take the shot and try to anchor him with a busted pelvis. My reasoning is that I've already screwed up the bull is already wounded and I probably will not find him with a possibly non bleeding gut shot wound. I want to end this now.
I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. I'm just saying that would be inclination.
What would you do?
Just as you break the trigger Mr. B&C lunges forward. You see the bull hunch up and kick his hind legs kick up. A moment later a soggy whump returns to you on the gentle wind current. The bull is gone into the shinery and headed down hill. A gut shot!!
You run like a madman to the ridge line and there he is trotting painfully away at about 150 yards. The only shot you've got is right up the ole tailpipe, he is straight away and he isn't turning. He's headed straight down hill. It's now or never, 20 more yards and he's over the next drop off and into the green abyss of tangled oak shinery and hellish blow downs in the canyon floor.
My question do you shoot and try to break him down with a hip shot? Or do you let him go and try to find him later?
I'll tell you my answer right now. I take the shot and try to anchor him with a busted pelvis. My reasoning is that I've already screwed up the bull is already wounded and I probably will not find him with a possibly non bleeding gut shot wound. I want to end this now.
I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. I'm just saying that would be inclination.
What would you do?