Shot Placement On Moving Deer. A Deer Doesn't "Duck" Your Arrow?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Do deer actually duck your arrow? This question is passed around by bow hunters across the nation and in this video we unpack some information on this and shot placement on moving deer.
Running whitetail deer are my absolute favorite thing to draw and paint. A graceful high jumper, explosive sprinter and fierce competitor, the white-tailed buck is a natural born athlete.
His agility and athleticism are rivaled only by his durability, toughness and cunning. As an artist, it’s an absolute privilege to depict such an animal.
As a bowhunter though, moving whitetail deer present a challenge. In my studio, I can freeze a buck in time and give myself hours, days and even weeks to study and paint him in the pose that I choose.
In the deer stand though, all I can do is give him a hoarse grunt with my mouth and stop him for a couple seconds, and rarely in the perfect position for a shot.
To help my fellow bowhunters in our shared predicament, here’s a collection of art and information showing whitetails in motion from my popular print, The Anatomy & Physiology of the White-tailed Buck.
I spent months researching and drawing the anatomy of white-tailed deer, with the help and advice of expert biologists and hunters from across North America.
Hopefully this art and video will help you this fall!
THE ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY OF THE WHITE-TAILED BUCK PRINT
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Awesome artistic skills and presentation of the anatomy!
Thank you very much!
Man it’s so hard for me to visualize how the leg makes the 45 degree turn into the shoulder and then into the scapula, even with your incredible drawings, but when you overlaid the drawing onto a real buck…*magic*! Thank you!
Most of us that had dad's that taught us to hunt had them tell us "aim behind the front leg" or tell us the shoulder is straight above the leg. Our turn to teach them about the vital-v now.
I've never bow hunted or even taken a deer with a rifle but boy oh boy watching these videos makes me feel like I know what I need to do to make a quick and clean kill. Thank you! Great wisdom and advice!!!
Thank you for the excellent explanation!! And thank you for pointing out that they don't actually duck, but are loading their legs with kinetic energy. 👍👍👍
You are welcome! Glad you’re enjoying the video’s! Thanks for all the positive comments!
Heard similar advice but these illustrations along with it are invaluable!! Especially the illustration of the ribs when a deer is quartering.
Nice illustrations, and very educational content. I never thought about the "ribs closing" in quartering shots..
I've never seen this high quality content, great work 😃
these videos are very helpful and well done thank you!
Awesome illustrations and explanation
Thank you for the information
You bet!
Enjoyed this video!
Ryan I can’t thank you enough for these enlightening videos along with the awesome paintings you produce for illustrations! Thank you again! Good luck this fall!
Thanks for the educational video. I had never considered the simple fact that the ribs line up like they do AND the impact on an arrow's flight. That's good to add to my mental calculations as I shoot. I am curious about terminal performance of fixed broadheads compared to mechnicals in this situation. I also know that a topic like that has a likelihood of devolving into an argument so I'll just stop right there...😄
i've been preparing to hunt for the first time (will use an xbow)...from what i can gather, once you start hitting more than 50 yds, you have to compensate for the dip because the soundwave gets there before the arrow...
anything less and the arrow travels faster than the sound and they're already hit before hearing it...
anything more they will react to the sound faster than it can come and move out of position...
and as far as ducking...watch what runners do in the olympics - they bend down to prepare...
Wow this guy deserves more views
Epic visuals my dude!!
Appreciate that man!
Beautiful artwork
Good stuff man! Thanks!
The broadside shot lends itself to quartering to you shot. And missed aiming point that is always to far back. Angling into the guts and liver . Exiting out no vital quick kill areas.
good to to know, great editing and speaking
thank you i learned alot
Do u have stuff on Axis deer? I live in Maui and hunt all the time and this ducking an arrow video happens all the time with these deer. Some anatomy on these would be awesome, they are beautiful deer as well so would make some nice art.
Thank you. Very helpful. Do you know if the internal anatomy of an Axis deer is same or similar to a white tail? We have both around us.
Let me guess, the deflected arrow you mentioned had a mechanical on it?
What is the score of that behemoth in the back?
Amazing would buy if you had African game
The same thing I do hunting moose ,right tight behind the moose front leg ,and low to the heart section ,and the moose bleeds out quickly on the inside ,and doesn’t go beyond 70 yards ,usually dead within a few minutes ,if you place your shot there and wait five minutes ,you will find moose easily ,most times moose will only walk just out of sight and lay down ,to weak to walk for loss of blood ,that’s my experience not opinion ,rusty
Ngl I think he likes whitetail
I was hunting with my wife years ago and I smacked a doe in the head with a rifle at about 40 yards, my wife says, 'nice shot', can you get another one (as they were scattering like a fart in the wind) I said yeah, and plugged another as she was hauling ass at about a 50 degree offset. The doe I headshot dropped in her tracks and started thrashing around, the moving deer I hit only made it roughly 30 yards and collapsed on a dirt road. As I went to ensure the first fatality, undenounced to me at that same time a 4 door sedan carrying a man, his wife and their few children had stopped and the man began loading the second deer (which I had no idea of knowing she dropped on the road as she ran through tall brush) into his car. After checking on the first deer I went after the second. Going around the brush, I saw the man loading the deer, I said, 'what the hell are you doing with my deer'? He freaks and apologizes, probably because I had my rifle on me, but I see his family in the car. I asked him if he needed the meat to feed his family, as I already had one doe on the ground I figured I would help this man out. THE FUCKIN MORON RESPONDED NO! I said, 'THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WITH MY DEER, IT DIED LITERALLY SECONDS BEFORE YOU SHOWED UP'! He jumped in his car and sped off and I dragged the second deer back flabbergasted by what the hell just happened. Weirdest thing Ive seen hunting.
Got lost telling my story, when I got the second deer open, I had hit her low ribs with the bullet passing into the chest cavity and through her heart then out the left shoulder. A head and a heart shot within the span of about 15 seconds.
Bullshit….they can duck the sound of an arrow thru the air, watch some videos specifically to this subject…..THEY CAN DUCK SOUND!!!!
But they’re not ducking just to duck. They’re loading up their front end for flight. There’s a difference.