look at the hole and that's a big hole he's a big old mudded up sucker look at
the hole come on come on so this is the exit perfect shot huh he's
like he's pretty jet black really this is a bear I just shot I want to do a
little anatomy lesson I shot this bear right behind the shoulder you can see
this big hole it's right in the meat of the shoulder so I'm gonna cut this waist
out and let's look at where it went in actually okay so it's the front of the
ribcage here you can see I cut all the ribs
I cut the slots in here so you can see how small their lungs are but arrow went
in here and it was slightly quartering towards and it went out the other side
you can see this cut right here I'm one of the blades that brought it almost
broke that rib it's like snapping right there but with bears I mean this is the
front of the body cavity and so right in the center of the shoulder is
probably the far extreme forward that you'd want to shoot there's the last rib
right there here's the scapula right here
and then the ribs started back here so you can see the diaphragm down in here
diaphragm always connects to the last rib it doesn't matter what game animal
here's one more rib here's a rib and the last rib is right here
so the diaphragm all the way back here you can see that's just three inches in
front of the hip but yeah here's the kicker the lungs
aren't that big there's there's no lung feeling up the chest cavity right here
you can see right inside here how little the lungs are now obviously these have
been deflated because I shot it through the lungs and it is dead but very small
compared to an elk there you go there's the center of the lungs right here and
look at that broad head that perfect X okay so I dead centered that frontal
lobe but where was the entrance it was right up here in the shoulder so that
main lobe is far forward and then you have the rear lobe which is right here
and it sits back here but look how small that is so when you go to shoot a bear
number one the best thing you can do is shoot it with a big broad head shoot it
with an expandable shoot with a hybrid something with a big cut diameter
because if you get it in this body cavity you want to really cut as much as
possible you can see these ribs on a bear are really brittle and flimsy
it's not like an elk at all so there's no reason to shoot like a cut on contact
or anything like that on a bear so there you have it I shot that bear right here
and that's dead center of that front lung and it was right above the heart
here's the Heartland right here which is right behind the shoulder and and back
see the the heart is back here so it's actually behind the shoulder of
the bear so let's just say that bear standing there here's the elbow see my
thumb right here here's the elbow and like on a deer the heart would be up
here the heart on the bear is a little farther back you have the one lung up
front and then well the the main lobe of the lung up front and then this piddly
small lobe back here so I would stay off the back half the ribs not a lot back
here obviously if you shoot here you're gonna get liver so the livers let's see
one two three four between four and five ribs up you're gonna hit the liver right
here in the stomach and that's about seven eight inches behind the shoulder
so keep that in mind you know you want to hit anywhere from the shoulder to
five or six ribs forward so right there but that is a little different that
heart does sit farther back on a bear still on the brisket like anything it's
just farther back it's broad had performed really well and it's actually
locked open it's in perfect shape but the entrance hole is phenomenal on this
thing very impressive this bears 40 yards and I like to shoot bears lower
and farther forward so I'll run up just up the back of his leg and make sure I
hit him lower than I do hi now I was off a little bit actually you can see I hit
him straight up in the center of the leg and about mid body if not just below the
center line and that bear didn't go anywhere of course but it's too far for
it I would have liked to seen that a little farther back I thought this bear
was gonna be dead and this shows you the importance of always reloading and
shooting again immediately
now let's go in to this other Wyoming Bull from Oh probably five years ago or
so I snuck in on him and it was 51 yards and now look at this angle so this is a
very extreme angle I can barely even see that far
front right shoulder and that's where I want that arrow to come out and the
arrow entrance is going to be right in the hip or right in front of the hip was
my goal and you'll see this this bull's alerted and so he did drop a little bit
and that arrow hit a mid elevation and it indeed buried into that far front
shoulder and that that's a perfect hit this ball went about 60 yards and piled
up just inside of the timber now this is my organ Bull so there's no mechanical
broadheads allowed which they did change that for 2019 but this is a fully fixed
broadhead no expandable portions and you can see that this bull ran out and stood
there and I hit them right about center line so this is a true cut on contact to
blade broadhead with a small bleeder blade now I normally do not shoot
broadheads with this small of cut the the fixed portion is one in 1/16 inch
and the bleeder blade is 3/4 of an inch and so this is one and thirteen
sixteenths total cut and you can see that this bull ran out there stopped and
looked around and didn't really know what was going on and it did kill him
but it took 20 minutes this is a good example why I prefer a hybrid like the
gravedigger with that one inch fixed and then you have the one and a half inch
mechanical portion so that gives you two and a half inches of cut diameter which
is 3/4 of an inch more than a normal fixed blade broadhead so hopefully all
these scenarios will help you when you shoot your next big game animal and
maybe give you some insight on how I like to shoot a big-game animal on what
has worked what I would do and what I wouldn't do anymore I don't think you
can look at too many situations like this and too many shot angles because
ultimately you want the quickest most clean kill as you can possibly get so
the more kills you watch the more anatomy of the animal that you're
hunting you look at the better result you're gonna have so keep that in mind
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