Bedded Animals

[Mikido]

Looking for some tips/info on shooting bedded deer/elk. Thanks!

 

[WyoBC_99]

My old man taught me not to shoot until they stand up. I have seen a few bad hits on bedded animals that only confirm that approach for me. Patience.

 

[doc holiday13]

*ranch fairy voice*

If you have 24% FOC you can shoot them anywhere and they'll die

 

[Mikido]

My old man taught me not to shoot until they stand up. I have seen a few bad hits on bedded animals that only confirm that approach for me. Patience.

Provoke them to stand up or wait

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

Provoke them to stand up or wait

I’ll shoot one bedded, but wait if you want them to stand. You throw a rock or whistle and they get up on alert, more likely to jump the string. Also more likely to smell you while you wait a few hrs. They don’t jump the string when they are bedded….

 

[realunlucky]

Archery is all about the angle, either you have one that will kill them or you need to wait until you do.

 

[roosiebull]

Archery is all about the angle, either you have one that will kill them or you need to wait until you do.

Agree, I am willing to shoot a bedded critter, but I have never had one bedded with an angle I was willing to shoot. I have had to wait them out plenty of times, some successful, and some not.

 

[Billy Goat]

I always take the first good shot I get.

If thats bedded, that's perfectly fine.


More time gives the F-up Fairy more time to show up, but I am generally not going to do anything to alert an animal intentionally before a shot.

 

[nphunter]

I shot two bedded animals this year, both from cliffs above them. Neither had a clue I was there.

The deer shot was through his neck, backstrap and into a lung. He rolled 150 yards down the mtn. Somehow he lived and moved before I made it down there and I found him bedded but very sick 100 yards away and put one behind his shoulder.





The bull offered a great angle from above, zero wind, time to kick out a perfectly flat spot to shoot from and execute a great shot. I don’t think I’ve felt more confident in and elk shot, the angle he’s laying made his vitals seem huge. I also had all the time in the world and could see a mile in both directions from his bed. Arrow hit its mark and an offside rib, I watched him stand up and walk 100 yards. He fell down once got up and walked a little further and then laid down, put his head down and didn’t move again.