Pondoro By JOHN TAYLOR
Several times you have written about the "shoulder shot".
Being that this shot is not written or recommended in any books I have about shots at big game; could you please explain just what you mean by the "shoulder shot".
My thoughts are if this shot is not placed near perfect the results may be ugly.
I understand if prefected the "shoulder shot" hits them like a bolt of lighting, but not everyone that hunts big game can execute the shot properly and that is my concern.
There are a lot of folks out there that have a hard time hitting the heart-lung area.
Thank you.
Sincerely
A little know writer with somewhat limited shooting and hunting experience was a fellow by the name of JOHN TAYLOR. As a child I became aware of his books and have followed his advice about shoulder shots. "Make all your shots, shoulder shots"! In one of his books Pondoro he gives this advice.
My first edition of this book is copyrighted in 1955 by SIMON and SCHUSTER INC.
I have been asked many times by big game guides all over, what shot do you prefer to all others? I've never had one objection to my answer, "THE SHOULDER SHOT". Along with several other shots I will take, Texas heart, head neck joint shot. When being faced square on the neck bottom of brisket shot. But my preferred shot above any other is the broad side shoulder shot.
Anchor shots are the top of the list shot. The kind of shooting for the most part are under 200 yards, none of these shots will allow any animal to travel at the shot.
All of us read about the bullet that leaves a good blood trial, are these people NUTS? That is a complete failure of the hunter to make a descent shot or he does not know anatomy?
Stuck inside and watching these clowns on TV hunt whitetail deer and seeing them shoot and watching the deer run away? That is just about as poor of shooting as one can find.
The last thing in this world you want to do is to have to follow a wounded bear in the brush. Anchor them, don't let then run into the brush same with these big old moose. No one will think you are a mighty hunter if you don't know how to anchor the game with your first shot.
If you can't make a shoulder shot, then practice until you can. Learn to his and a$$hole at 50 to75 yards, learn how to make this anchor shot at any distance you are comfortable with.
I know you fellows in the lower 48 think you got to shoot any legal thing that comes along, but learn not to take a shot until you know that you can anchor with the first shot. The meat will taste better than when they run away.
Now I'm going to shock you fellows, for all the hunting I've ever had in the lesser 48 States the Remington Core Locks have been all the bullet you will ever need if you can get away from the idea you need to just back off the charge by 0.05 tenths of a grain when you vaporize the bullet.
When I have to have a bullet that I have total confidence in a bullet, I keep to the recommended velocities of the bullet maker and use Woodleigh bullets. Do you folks need them in the lesser? I think they would work for elk just fine or I know they work for the few of you that have a moose tag. Just remember to follow Geoff velocity recommendations and the rest is up to you doing your part.
Think about the spine? Think about the top of the shoulders, a bullet hitting all three of these places, the animal will not run away. Broken shoulders and a severed spine does not allow for any thing on the earth running away!
