Thread: The Hilar Shot

@Flyblown, great post.

Matt Grant in his Sharpshooter book explains that if you shoot the heart, you cause blood everywhere to stop flowing -- yet this stagnant blood still contains much oxygen etc. and the animal can run quite far on this alone (150m in your diagram) before it drops somewhere inaccessible.

Shoot the lung/hilum however, and the pumping heart aids bleeding out. It quickly pumps the circulation free of blood, which is lost into airways and chest cavity through the wound channel, and unconsciousness then death follows quickly.

Agree what a great post@Flyblown thanks

Informative post. Thank you. Timely
Reminder before spring

I have always aimed to break shoulder bones with 243,308 and 44mag,always anchors deer on the spot.im a bush hobbit though and 60m is a looong shot

Can't drive away with no front wheels....

Since this thread has revived again I thought I'd put a couple of links up from The Deer Initiative UK. Reading various posts on here it's obvious a lot of people really don't know Deer and Pig anatomy very well. There's plenty of info out there and Matt Grants book ' Sharpshooter' is as relevant today as when first printed. The links may be of interest to some.

https://thedeerinitiative.co.uk/wp-c...ly-2023_V4.pdf
https://www.wild-boar.org.uk/pdf/WildBoar_shooting.pdf

Unreal!, this is so uncanny it's weird, the universe works in bizarre ways!!.

After reading the latest posts I thought The Sharp Shooter sounded like a good read, so I googled it...nothing on the yellow site, other NZ publishers listed it as sold out.

We're currently preparing my mil's house for hand over to the new owner, wifey was going through the book shelf and asked me if I wanted a random book - she handed me this!.
Gobsmacked to say the least.

You will get a LOT out of it. Before rangefinders and failing up was common place and a chronograph was not hugely used either. The velocity spread comments are very telling .under hundy is good.under fifty very very good type of thing. His comments on using 22hp savage are also very relevant to modern 223 with heavy loads EXCEPT now folks heaps more accurate and projectiles have come a long way. Treasure that book and please read it through at least three times,you gain more each reading.

My copy is well worn.

Originally Posted by nor-west

My copy is well worn.

This one is in top condition, good score.

Just bought a second hand copy for $9.95 on Trademe, job done. Like the Old School books on the shelf. There's a hard copy one for $11.99 there if you want