In an ideal world, all of the animals we hunt would die right after being shot the first time. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen.

Fortunately, there are a few things hunters can do to make it more likely that it will only take one shot to put an animal down.

Outdoor Life‘s Brian McCombie reveals one expert’s advice on how to put a deer down quickly with one shot.

To kill an animal with a single shot is the goal of every responsible hunter. Most of us were taught to put a bullet in the “boiler room,” the heart and lungs. But should we be aiming elsewhere? We asked a number of deer cullers, those sharpshooters whose job requires them to kill deer quickly, for their perspectives on bullet placement. Their advice, detailed below, is: “It depends.” On distance, bullet type, shooting ability, and even meat retention… [continued]

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