Tennessee Heart Shot? Fun Young Hunter Video

[Double Naught Spy]

We all know what a Texas Heart Shot is. This is a little different. I have watched this shot over and over and find it hugely amusing. Those of you who have guided know that young or new hunters often offer up some surprising and unexpected results. Rembo has hunted before, but is still inexperienced. I hope they get everything mounted as this will be a great conversation piece and worth a lifetime of stories.

So as not to be a drive-by and not spoil the viewing experience, I will put my commentary below the video. Watch as guide dad tells his son to "shoot it in the heart" and bleets to stop the buck for a really nice, slightly quartered away broadside shot...



...and Rembo shoots an antler off the buck's head. Dad is surprised, "What the hell?" He asked Rembo a couple of times about where he shot the buck and Rembo hasn't a clue. All young Rembo knows is that his deer is down.

Dad still can't believe his eyes and coaches Rembo to chamber another round as the deer may get back up. Excellent advice of a more experienced hunter.

Fortunately, the deer is knocked out and they walk up and finish it off while it was still unconscious.

 

[buck460XVR]

Fortunately, the deer is knocked out and they walk up and finish it off while it was still unconscious.

My brother has the mount of a nice 8-pointer than my mother shot back in 1942, at the age of 16. It is missing a brow tine. My grandfather claimed that when he dressed/skun/processed the deer, there were no visible wounds of any kind on the body......anywhere. The taxidermist claimed there were no injuries to the head when he mounted the deer, only that there was a small crack at the base of the pedicle where the brow tine was missing.

 

[courtgreene]

Good advice about eyes being closed. More people need to look for that when walking up to them. People assume wrongly that eyes closed=deceased.

 

[Patocazador]

People assume wrongly that eyes closed=deceased.

The 1st coyote I ever shot with a bow was gut shot by me. He ran down a row of picked cotton stalks and his trailing guts got caught and pulled out completely. He chewed off his end of the intestines and ran about 30 yards more. I walked up to him amazed that he could go that far after all the damage. His eyes were closed and I said, "D-mn!" His eyes opened and off he went for another 50 yards before collapsing.

Having learned my lesson, I walked back to my truck, fetched a .22 and shot him again from 10 yards just to make sure. They are tough critters for sure.

 

[22250Rem]

Interesting video... I will NEVER approach a downed deer without being ready & able to finish it off if needed. Back in the 90's I had a buck down with no sign of life and as I got about 10 yards away he suddenly jumped up. Luckily I had my slug gun in one hand with a round in the chamber and finished off the deer quickly and learned my lesson that day. As the hunters in the video were walking up to that buck I kept waiting for it to jump up. He must have been stunned.

 

[jmorris]

Dropped it faster than a lot of much better placed shots I have seen.

 

[Legionnaire]

That's great. I liked that dad didn't ride his son for an inaccurate shot. I'm sure they discussed it later. Regardless, good video of a great learning experience.

 

[mcb]

Nothing's worst than watching a big buck you knocked down get back up. I knocked a nice 10-pt down during muzzle loader season several seasons ago. I beleive I failed to bury the front sight in the rear sight (to much scope shooting) and thus hit him high just above the shoulder blades. He went down in his tracks. A few seconds later he starts moving his head. I start reloading as fast as I could. As I reloaded he brough his head up, then up on his front legs dragging his rear, then just as he was getting to the edge of the food plot his rear legs started working and by the time I was putting a cap on the nipple he was exiting the food plot and over the edge of a very steep narrow ravine. I tracked him for hundreds of yards before the blood trail stopped. That was a bad day hunting...

The kid got lucky and had a good outcome. Funny video with a good outcome.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Interesting video... I will NEVER approach a downed deer without being ready & able to finish it off if needed.

I don't hunt deer, but I won't approach any hog or predator that I have shot without being ready to shoot it again until I have verified that it is indeed, dead. I have made the mistake of seeing a 30-35 lb shoat with a big chunk of shoulder missing and laying still only to find out it was still alive when I started dragging it by its hind feed. Two of my buddies were hunting the pecan groves and killed several hogs in one session. The got the truck, loaded up the hogs, and drove to the edge of the property where the dead pile was located. They had gotten 3 or 4 out when Alex turned to grab the next one and a boar was standing upright in the truck. The boar jumped out and started to run away (versus attacking, which was fortunate) and Alex had to run him down and finish him with his pistol.

I always look for signs to indicate life such as breathing, blink reflex, and if they are still upright. While I have had a couple of hogs manage to die upright, any other time I have found upright hogs, they were still alive, just in bad shape.

So I was a little disappointed when they didn't approach the deer with the thought it could still be alive. The rifle wasn't ready if it was needed.

 

[KevinB]

Actually was reading some old threads on THR this morning and came across a couple of posts about deer being killed by shooting the antlers off. Pretty interesting stuff.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/okey-whats-your-favorite-spot-to-aim-in-deer.408948/

@Loomis

You could do like one of my relatives did(by accident). Shoot the antlers off. It actually killed the deer...busted it's skull.

@Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow

My buddy saw a guy last year come to the check station with a dead buck, but no bullet hole in him, but a broken off antler - the bullet hit the antler and broke it, and apparently a shock wave was sent through the head into the brain, killing it.

 

[BreechFace]

“Blew his durned horn off”

 

[Bfh_auto]

Dropped it faster than a lot of much better placed shots I have seen.

Agreed. Something about getting whacked in the head...
I've drilled 2 bucks through the heart with a muzzleloader only to have them run 100-200 yards leaving blood everywhere.
Bet he will learn to focus on where he needs to shoot instead of on the rack.