My boy shot a small buck yesterday evening that was quartering towards him. He made a perfect center punch on the right shoulder but the bullet exited a little far back on the left side, hitting some gut. I told him he probably should have waited for a broadside shot but he said he didn’t think he was going to get that chance. (Probably got a little impatient is my guess but...). If the quartering towards you shot is all you’re going to get, where is the ideal placement? Should you cheat over a little towards the front of the shoulder, towards the brisket?

Yeah, that’s what I think too. Sometimes it doesn’t take much quatering for a bullet to exit further back than you first think. Or at least, in a real hunting situation it’s tough to perceive it on the fly.

Aim for the exit.

Stand over your dog looking down on him and see how the bullets would work in your mind

I've only killed a handful of deer quartering toward me, one was a big 7 and a Big 8 (8 pictured above) and only one of them i dead centered the chest, and he went down and got back up, and died in some of nastiest crap he could've. After that episode, i always aim more towards the crease of the leg, and every one has rolled over and died within 4 yards. Everyone that i knows that's ran it straight up the chest has had a tough tracking job...

Quartering to is my favorite (and preferred shot) and will always take it and encourage my son to take the shot. I aim for where the neck & shoulder join. I figure it is up to the deer to determine where they want the bullet to exit.

Seriously, depending on the height above and distance from the deer and the angle, I get exits/paths anywhere from the front of the rib cage to the offside hip. Sometimes it gets in the guts, but I have never not had a dead deer either right there or a very short distance away.

This one was quartering towards my son and the bullet wound up just in front of the left hindquarter ... deer was dead right there.

I love the quartering too shot. I put it on what I call the point of the shoulder. It’s just to the side of the neck shoulder joint like stated above and it usually exits in the guts. I have had it run up in the hind quarter but it is an off switch They don’t even wiggle most of the time

The answer. ^^^

This is where I aim...maybe a fudge to the left.

I once made a perfectly clean gut shot on a doe with my bow, quartering toward me. Of course, we never found her. Made me sick.

I am just a little higher on the last picture. Works good usually melts them

Skullworks’ picture is kind of what I was thinking.

I try to put the bullet through where the front legs and spine meet. it depends on how close the deer is.

I would aim a little higher and slightly left of the aiming point in Skullworks picture.

Not me. Think of the vitals as a basket ball in the deer's chest, ya wanta put that bullet or arra through the center of the ball.

I always shoot to the back of the front leg opposite side. Never fails. Just like the picture posted above. That is the correct shot angle and leaves no guesswork.

Just a tad right for me.

Aiming for the exit hole will accomplish exactly that.

What skull said and DRT usually dont quiver

Quartering to is my favorite as well. This one was DRT.