Shot to kill ratio

[Deleted member 28227]

Are we counting clean misses or just shots on an animal that you ultimately killed?

2020 3 bow for a turkey (2 clean misses on other birds)
2019 Elk 1, deer 2, bear 2, turkey 1
2018 Elk 1, deer 1, caribou 2, pronghorn 1, turkey 1 bow, turkey 1
2017 Elk 5, deer 1, turkey 1,
2016 Elk 1, deer 1, deer 1, pronghorn 1, bear 1, turkey 1, box at another pronghorn and missed every single time ... range finder was purchased.
2015 Bear 3, pronghorn 1, elk 1, pronghorn 1, mule deer 1, white tail 2 (shotgun, buck shot), Turkey 1
2014 deer 3, pronghorn 3, whitetail 2 (shotgun slugs)
2013 no shots fired
2012 Bear 1, turkey 1 (first year hunting)

The pronghorn was hopefully an outlier...the elk in 2017 is the only thing that I’ve shot that left my field of view before it died. If whatever I shoot doesn’t drop on the spot it gets a second shot.
1.53

For upland and ducks I’m pretty terrible.

 

[Dsnow9]

Are we counting clean misses or just shots on an animal that you ultimately killed?

2020 3 shots bow for a turkey (2 clean misses on other birds)
2019 Elk 1, deer 2, bear 2, turkey 1
2018 Elk 1, deer 1, pronghorn 1, turkey 1
2017 Elk 5, deer 1, turkey 1,
2016 Elk 1, deer 1, deer 1, pronghorn 1, bear 1, turkey 1, box at another pronghorn and missed every single time ... range finder was purchased.
2015 Bear 3, pronghorn 1, elk 1, pronghorn 1, mule deer 1, white tail 2 (shotgun), Turkey 1
2014 deer 3, pronghorn 3, whitetail 2
2013 no shots fired
2012 Bear 1, turkey 1 (first year hunting)

The pronghorn was hopefully an outlier...the elk in 2017 is the only thing that I’ve shot that left my field of view before it died. If whatever I shoot doesn’t drop on the spot it gets a second shot.

For upland and ducks I’m pretty terrible.

Clean misses are like fight club... and good call on the turkeys. Forgot about those little buggers.

 

[Deleted member 38069]

Nice shooting!

For upland and ducks I’m pretty terrible.

Let's not open that can of worms!! my ratio would be like 5!

 

[Deleted member 16014]

This would’ve been a great thread for ol stay sharp and his space age arrows. I bet that gunslinger is well under 1:1 on yard deer and Haitian moo cows or whatever it was...

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I probably average around 2 per. Plenty of 1 shot kills, a couple with 2-3, and an unfortunate rodeo or two. I also do the shoot till they’re down thing.

 

[MTLabrador]

I average a little over 1 apiece on deer and antelope, haven’t had to shoot a smaller animal twice for a while. My average is right around 2.5 per elk, some one shot kills and some that took 2-3. With elk I shoot until they’re down.

 

[Deleted member 38069]

This would’ve been a great thread for ol stay sharp and his space age arrows. I bet that gunslinger is well under 1:1 on yard deer and Haitian moo cows or whatever it was...

I guess I missed out on his tall tales. Probably for the best.

 

[Doublecluck]

Yea if we start talkin archery turkey than I’m in trouble..

 

[noharleyyet]

#humblebrag OSOK on deer, turkeys, and pigs. 1.5 on elk, Coyotes...mostly 2 yips & a miss. Many a pig or yote have abruptly walked & left me shot-less. Dove and, especially, quail keep me digging for shot shells.

 

[thusby]

The last 10 were with 11 shots. I used to hunt with a constant power scope prior to that and there were a lot of rounds flung that completely missed. Mostly due to problems estimating holdover by body height and the like.

 

[Sask hunter]

2019
1 bear 2/2 with my 338
1 Elk 1/1 my 338
1 antelope 2/2 ML
Moose 3/4 338
Whitetail 2/3 ML
Mulie 1/1 300 mag
2020
1 bear 1/1 338

 

[VikingsGuy]

Me:
2019: pronghorn buck - 1 shot; zebra - 1 shot; sable - 1 shot; Kudu - 1 shot; pronghorn buck - 2 clean misses due to scope turret CZL2 error (discussed on other posts)

2018: cow elk - 1 shot; pronghorn buck - 1 shot

Son:
2019: Gemsbok - 1 shot; Reedbuck - 1 shot; Blesbok - 1 shot; pronghorn buck - 2 shots (1 clean miss, 1 hit/kill)

Many years prior to 2017, deer stand whitetails with 30-30 - mostly 1 shots from 30-70yds.

 

[JohnCushman]

I shoot a RUM. My ratio is high. mtmuley

You don't even have to shoot...they sense a RUM and just lay down and die for you next to the truck

 

[Pucky Freak]

Turkey over the last 2 years: 6 birds on 7 shots. One of the shots was low and I needed to follow up. 1.17

Archery WT
2013: 6 misses and 1 kill shot at 7 deer
2014: 1 deer not recovered
2015: 1 miss
2016: 1 deer not recovered
2019: 2 kill shots, 1 follow up on mortally wounded deer, 1 grazing shot, 1 deer not recovered, and 3 clean misses
6.0

Shotgun deer
2014: 2 misses and 1 kill shot at 3 deer
2015: 2 kill shots and 2 misses at 3 deer
2016: 5 misses and 1 kill shot at 1 deer
2017: 3 kill shots and 3 misses at 3 deer
2018: 1 deer not recovered, and 3 misses on another deer
2019: 2 misses at 1 deer
3.57

Rifle deer
2002: 4 misses, and 1 bad shot that required 1 follow up at 2 deer
2003: 1 kill
2004: 1 not recovered
2005: 2 kills and 1 miss at 2 deer
2006: 4 shots for 3 kills. 1 was a poor hit and required a follow up
2011: 1 kill
2012: 2 misses at 2 deer (broken scope)
2.13

 

[hank4elk]

2018 Cow 147yd 1 shot
2017 Bull 185yd 1 shot
2016 Cow 285yd 1 shot
2015 Cow 405yd 2 shots-down on 1st ,trying to get up, 2nd 415yd shot.
Buck 150yd 1 shot
2014 Cow 275yd 1 shot
all 0-06
6 yrs of no shots with few solid opportunities on trophy type bulls succeeding years before.....gave up on that stuff. 06 & mz
Don't remember how many BT bucks & pigs I shot up with my trusty old 30-30,but they were all down....lol

 

[wyoelkfan15]

5 sharptails in 13 shots
1 hun in 1 shot
7 roosters in 18 shots
2 mallards in 2 shots
34/15= 2.26

(Slightly guessing at the sharpie/rooster shots)

I was getting used to my new over under, I feel like a 2.26 ratio on birds ain't half bad! (My Brittany might disagree however)

 

[DouglasR]

Wt archery
2017- 2 Osok spine shots on 2 deer that gave me a distorted perception of the killing power of a bow and my blood trailing abilities.
2018-2 one shot dnr’s and 2 shots and 2 hits on one recovered deer.
2019-one shot dnr on a doe and a osok on a button buck.

Elk.
2019- 2 shots, 2 hits one recovered elk.

Squirrels- osok =.52 cents per meal but sometimes the cost me $3.12

My last 3 archery kills had 1 thing in common... I got a range on the actual animal. Next year I think my rules gonna be no shots past 20 yards without ranging them first.

 

[AggieHunter]

My connecting shot to kill ratio is right around one, but I always seem to miss the first follow up shot somehow. Now for turkeys this year I was 1 miss, 1 hit the year before not so good. Lets just say I wasn't aiming correctly with my short stock and went about a box a bird.

 

[AggieHunter]

Are we counting clean misses or just shots on an animal that you ultimately killed?

2020 3 bow for a turkey (2 clean misses on other birds)
2019 Elk 1, deer 2, bear 2, turkey 1
2018 Elk 1, deer 1, caribou 2, pronghorn 1, turkey 1 bow, turkey 1
2017 Elk 5, deer 1, turkey 1,
2016 Elk 1, deer 1, deer 1, pronghorn 1, bear 1, turkey 1, box at another pronghorn and missed every single time ... range finder was purchased.
2015 Bear 3, pronghorn 1, elk 1, pronghorn 1, mule deer 1, white tail 2 (shotgun, buck shot), Turkey 1
2014 deer 3, pronghorn 3, whitetail 2 (shotgun slugs)
2013 no shots fired
2012 Bear 1, turkey 1 (first year hunting)

The pronghorn was hopefully an outlier...the elk in 2017 is the only thing that I’ve shot that left my field of view before it died. If whatever I shoot doesn’t drop on the spot it gets a second shot.
1.53

For upland and ducks I’m pretty terrible.

I read this wrong at first thinking you took 5 elk in 2017 and so on...

 

[TOGIE]

Are we counting clean misses or just shots on an animal that you ultimately killed?

i say the number of shots taken before punching the tag, miss on a different animal or not.

really it should almost be a shots per tag ratio to capture what i think the ratio should capture in my mind - which is the ability to hunt effectively, efficiently, carefully, slowly, get close, think before your shots etc. i kind of also think of it as the "ethical ratio"