How long would you wait for them to stand up?

[Holmes]

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They laid down like this while I was making my stalk.
I don't take head or neck shots. Can't see vitals on any of them [correction: I didn't think that I could land a good vital shot, someone with more experience/skill than me might have.]
So, what would you do? How long would you wait?

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[long hunter]

Get comfortable and wait them out.

 

[280Ackley]

I think you are just bragging!!! But I agree wait them out or wave something at them to try to get them to stand up.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I use a white game bag on a trekking pole once it starts getting too dark waiting them out. They usually get curious and stand up. Don't wave it around crazy, mimic an animal standing up and looking at them. Slow movements.

 

[Laramie]

I'm not sure why you can't get a bullet to the vitals? I would gladly take a bedded shot. My bull from last year was similar. Bedded in the snow at a slight quartering angle.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Also, hard to tell from the photos but looks like plenty of lung to make mush to me.

 

[hodgeman]

You can definitely shoot one bedded. If you shoot it and kill it... great. If you shoot it and it stands up...shoot it again.

 

[280Ackley]

@Holmes So what happened?!?!?!

 

[Holmes]

@Holmes So what happened?!?!?!

I put on my belay jacket and my puffy pants, and waited over 2 hrs for them to stand back up.
Only a 75yd shot, but as a new shooter I was very happy with this.
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I shot a blacktail a few weeks ago while it was bedded. I lost a bunch of meat in one quarter and had to take a follow up shot on a fast-limping deer, then it tumbled into a scree field. I didn't like that and I didn't want to try it again. Got all the meat off this one.
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I'll try the waving-a-game-bag trick next time....if there is ever a next time that I get this close to a group of caribou.
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[svivian]

I put on my belay jacket and my puffy pants, and waited over 2 hrs for them to stand back up.
Only a 75yd shot, but as a new shooter I was very happy with this.

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I shot a blacktail a few weeks ago while it was bedded. I lost a bunch of meat in one quarter and had to take a follow up shot on a fast-limping deer, then it tumbled into a scree field. I didn't like that and I didn't want to try it again. Got all the meat off this one.

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I'll try the waving-a-game-bag trick next time....if there is ever a next time that I get this close to a group of caribou.

That might be one of the coolest photos ive seen in a while! Congrats

 

[Holmes]

That might be one of the coolest photos ive seen in a while! Congrats

Thanks!

 

[Nick Muche]

Cool place to hunt caribou, just wish they grew bigger there like they used to. Nice shooting!!

 

[280Ackley]

Awesome congratulations!!!

 

[Antares]

Thanks!

Super cool! Adak?

I almost blew it this year dear hunting. I waited on a bedded buck for 2 hours...and then I fell asleep...when I woke up he was 350 yards out trying to sneak away.

 

[Holmes]

Cool place to hunt caribou, just wish they grew bigger there like they used to. Nice shooting!!

The two of us kind of appreciated the “very packable size” of the animals we found

 

[Holmes]

Super cool! Adak?

Yes, Adak. Where you can walk 3 miles from a 737 into a no-motors wilderness hunt, crazy.