Cow hunt - When do you shoot?

cnelk

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[I took this video while scouting in July again]

Scenario - Cow elk hunt
Weapon - you choose

A cow elk is coming thru the trees toward you.

When do you shoot?

Toward the end, you will see me stop the elk with cow calls


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cool! thanks for the vid :upthumb:
if I keep my wits, I would be drawn, after she passed behind the pines, and ready to shoot at 1:45 when she stopped broadside.... I will say again, if I can keep my wits
 
Similar to Gary, I would have drawn while she walked behind that pine tree and shot when she stopped broadside.

If I wouldn\'t have been able to draw at that point, I would have waited until she was quartering away.
 
There are a lot of different opportunities to shoot with any weapon from what I see. With a rifle, you should easily have a punched tag. With a bow, the first opportunity I see is right around the 30 second mark. You could move just to the right and would have a great opportunity for a shot. If you didn\'t take that one, there are other chances but a lot of them are quartering to the shooter and not great angles until later in the video.
 
I agree, she was coming in quartering to most of the time. I should have drawn earlier and had been ready for the couple of other opportunities prior to 1:45. but I would have been a puddle from the first time I saw her, and messed up by not drawing at all, and then watching her run away with no shot taken....
boy, that sounds familiar :lol:
 
\"zpd307\" said:
I agree, she was coming in quartering to most of the time. I should have drawn earlier and had been ready for the couple of other opportunities prior to 1:45. but I would have been a puddle from the first time I saw her, and messed up by not drawing at all, and then watching her run away with no shot taken....
boy, that sounds familiar :lol:
Gary, we all get nervous. The key is to practice enough so that when the opportunity does present itself everything becomes second nature. Get to the point where you don\'t realize how bad you are shaking until after you have taken the shot ;)
 
Derek, in 4 years I have pulled my bow back on an elk twice. also in those 4 years I get about 2 opportunities in a year. so I don\'t get much practice at staying calm :haha:
 
Based off my limited experience I have learned to draw when given the opportunity so I would have drawn at the first possible opportunity and shot when she was slightly quartering toward. You could see the shoulder plain as day.
 

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