The CNS- bullet.
The CNS bullet’s huge margin of error area is seen in the shaded area – on roe deer and red deer.
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The CNS bullet’s large margin of error area provides an advantage when shooting moose at a trot.
The CNS bullet compared to the Heart bullet and the Lung bullet:
We hunters have used the Heart bullet and the Lung bullet for deer for many years.
These bullet placements have always been considered humane hits – and where as a hunter you have accepted that not all animals shot at will fall in the shot.
But it must be noted, that even a small deer like the roe deer can have an escape distance of up to 50-100 meters – even when the heart is completely destroyed by a well-placed Heart bullet.
The same for the Lung bullet, where even a double lung hit can give up to long escape distances – depending on the impact point and bullet trajectory.
In addition, the Heart bullet has a relatively small hit range – and where skewed shooting angles very easily lead to glancing shots in the heart, liver/stomach hits, hits in the sternum and hits in the elbow/frontleg – and where even longer escape distances and also shots become relevant.
The same for the Lung bullet, where skewed shooting angles easily lead to hits in only one lung, and where the animal’s other lung is still functioning – giving long escape distances.
Common to the Heart bullet and Lung bullets is, that not all deer fall in the hit, that the deer can have up to long long escape distances – and that the “Time from hit to unconsciousness” as a result is often not known, and can be long.
Just to see what others say about the Heart Bullet, it can be mentioned: An experienced Dr. Röken has stated: “If a heart hit is only centimeters behind the heart, the lung edge plus the fore stomach and possibly the liver (on the animal’s right side) is perforated, which causes only minimal internal bleeding, and thus a very long escape distance.” (Link).
Thus, and based on the above and in my opinion, both the Heart Ball and the Lung Ball can be considered to be: Not optimally humane at all times – and they can lead to animals fleeing far into the forest or the rapeseed field, or into the neighbor’s – and which must be searched for, and where not all are found. – In the following, this statement is explained in more detail.
Is there a better bullet placement on deer?
Yes, it definitely does: According to all scientific material, knowledge from wars, special units and big game hunters – a hit in the central part of the central nervous system (CNS) is the absolute fastest stopping and most effective bullet placement. – My many years of experience with the CNS bullet says the same.
The central hit area in the central nervous system is located in the brain, inside the cervical vertebrae and inside that part of the vertebrae that sits above the lung area. – Hits here, or just near these places, cause immediate immobility and almost always immediate unconsciousness.
In short, the so-called Medulla spinalis (spinal cord) is damaged or destroyed, whereby all impulses back and forth from the brain to vital organs stop abruptly – and faster unconsciousness and death cannot be achieved. – The medulla spinalis is the yellow dotted lines in the illustrations above, and the red dotted line in the photo below.
Here you can see a very small buck hit in the central nervous system. – 90 meters out in a slightly oblique shot from behind, and I was standing high in a tower over the buck. – That’s why I aimed high here (i.e. not like with a horizontal bullet trajectory, about 1/3 down from the animal’s back edge), and I aimed further back (and not just vertically over the first 1/4 of the animal’s course, which would have been chosen if the buck had stood with its side perpendicular to the bullet trajectory (in a purely horizontal side shot)). – The red dotted line is the spinal cord (Medulla spinalis), in which a hit in or near this will lead to the buck falling in the shot in an unconscious state.
– The buck fell into the shot and did not move after that, I could see from where I was sitting.
The photo shows how much correction must be made for oblique shooting angles, and how easily this can go wrong down near the heart – and I believe that most misses and wounded animals occur as a result of this: aiming at the right place on the animal, so that the bullet trajectory hits the vital parts. – The blue ice cream cone in the photo above shows approximately the angle of entry and the entry lesion – and inside the middle of the animal the projectile hit just below the spine (approximately at the yellow dot).
I have used the CNS bullet for many years, and in the last 12 years I have shot 18 deer (only males included), of which 14 (approximately 78%) have fallen in the shot with a CNS bullet, and 13 (approximately 93%) of these did not move after the fall (as far as I could see) – one of these 14 shot animals also fainted in the crash, but moved its head a little and got a final shot. – That is, 100% of my CNS bullets resulted in a fall in a hit, and none of the 4 that had escape distance were shot with the CNS bullet – but with the Heart bullet or the Lung bullet.
The red deer and fallow deer I shot also fell unconscious in the hit after being hit by the CNS bullet. The fallow deer fell unconscious in the shot and did not move after the shot. The red deer only lifted its head for a moment and then lay completely lifeless. – Even for moose, the Swedes report the effectiveness of the CNS bullet – and the effect of the CNS bullet is also known and used by well-known big game hunters and sharpshooters.
What about “tap shot”?
Some claim that the CNS bullet poses a risk of “pin shot” (in processus spinosus) – but I have never delivered a “pin shot” that has led to escape distance. I have hit deer only approx. 4 cm below the dorsal edge above the back part of the lungs, where the animal fell lifeless in the shot.
The facts about “pin shots” are, however, that there is just as far, or further, from the center of the CNS hit circle to a “pin shot” – as the distance from the center of the heart to a much more serious hit in the liver/stomach, sternum and in the descending parts of the lungs in front of the heart, and this is documented in the illustrations of my articles – and can also be seen in the next illustration below.
For the same reason, it is also completely wrong if someone claims that Danish hunters do not shoot well enough to use the CNS bullet – because if we cannot hit an effective CNS hit circle with a diameter of 8.4 cm – we cannot hit the heart’s effective hit circle of max. approx. 7-8 cm.
And thus the statement: “that rifle hunters are not skilled enough with the CNS bullet, and therefore should choose the Heart bullet”, is directly incorrect – it is exactly the opposite.
What about “flesh destruction”?
There are also statements that the CNS bullet causes too much “meat destruction”. But with all my CNS hits I only lose a small corner of the lower, front corner of the animal’s back at the side edges (where the ribs are cut). I keep the heart, liver, most of the ribs and both forelegs largely intact (and this does not happen when using the Heart bullet).
Besides, it is not reasonable to put meat value above humanity and animal welfare – and in any case this should not be what determines the length of the kill.
It is also said that a flight distance of 0 meters gives the best meat quality, as the animal does not experience stress, pain and anxiety.
Huge advantages of the CNS bullet:
1. In addition to the above, there are several other advantages:
2. It is always an advantage in every way, that the animal remains in place after the shot.
3. Because a hit in the primary large CNS area always leads to immediate immobility and fall, I dare to shoot animals standing close to the neighboring border, which I would never dare with a Heart bullet or with a high Lung bullet.
4. In relation to the Heart bullet, there is an optimally large margin of error area both to the left and right of, and below the CNS area.
5. The horizontally lying large margin of error area means that the CNS bullet is very tolerant of shots fired at oblique shooting angles horizontally – i.e. when the animal is standing diagonally towards, or diagonally away from the shooter.
Conclusion:
One cannot conclude anything else about the centrally placed CNS bullet other than:
1. It is the most humane, safest, most effective and most ethical bullet placement.
2. It has a much larger effective hit area than the Heart bullet.
3. Rifle hunters have a greater chance of hitting the CNS hit area than the Heart.
4. It is very tolerant of oblique shooting angles sideways.
5. It is the only bullet placement that always results in fall in the shot.
6. It is the bullet placement that most likely gives the shortest: “Time from hit to unconsciousness.
7. In tall vegetation (e.g. in tall grass) the CNS hit area is seen better than the heart area.
8. Claims that the CNS bullet causes “pin shots” are demonstrably wrong.
9. Claims that the CNS bullet causes too much flesh destruction are unreasonable.
10. You avoid a lot of hassle and difficulties that escape distances can always cause.
So unless someone can seriously and well-foundedly refute what is described and shown here, I suggest for everyone’s good: “Fire the Heart bullet (the “Low shoulder shot”) and use the CNS bullet – and discard the shooting range targets, which misleadingly lure inexperienced rifle hunters into believing, that the effective hit area is much larger than it actually is, and that a lung bullet is best.
However, the story should include:
The “High shoulder Hit´s” double lung bullet can never be avoided – and here it is important to hit in the upper, front parts of the lungs and correct correctly for oblique shooting angles, bullet drop and crosswind, so that all hits become double lung bullets in the thickest possible parts of the lungs – which are just below the hit area of the CNS bullet, and where very vital branches of large veins and arteries to and from the lungs are located.
A replacement of the high and low shouldershoot could look like this for roe deer:
Photo source: Schweisshunderegisteret, with the new purpose of showing the best hit areas on deer.
The framed white area is the best hit area, second only to the yellow framed CNS hit area, where hits in the central nervous system of the neck should be avoided.
The white framed hit area also applies to bowhunters, where hits in strong bone structure can cause the arrow to stop (tamp) or the arrow’s direction can be deflected.
And for red deer, a replacement for high and low shoulder bullet could look like this:
What does the Danish Hunters’ Association say?
The long-running discussion about the central nervous system and “tap shots” should not surprise anyone, as even the Danish Hunters’ Association (DJ) Danmarks Jægerforbund in this Link and in this link writes verbatim: “A shot that hits the central nervous system will make the animal unable to escape, as it is paralyzed, but this shot placement is not appropriate, as the animal will die more slowly than with the recommended shot on the blade”.
This statement from the Danish Hunters’ Association is, in my opinion and opinion, directly wrong and misleading, as a large Quantity of material within medical science and forensic medicine identifies precisely the rather large primary part of the central nervous system as both the fastest killing target and at the same time the fastest immobilizing target (for many completely understandable, obvious and carefully explained organ physiological reasons). – This is also confirmed in experiences from wars, just as it is confirmed by special forces specializing in the fastest possible killing and stopping shot placements. Famous big game hunters have said the same thing.
– And my many years of experience are exactly the opposite of DJ’s statement, as not a single CNS bullet fired has led to anything other than the animal dying as quickly as possible.
And only a hit in the rear part of the central nervous system (behind the lungs) will be able to cause immobility without unconsciousness, and therefore a long: “Time from hit to unconsciousness” and a long time to death, as the Danish Hunters’ Association writes – but this is not a CNS bullet in the primary part of the central nervous system, which is located in the brain, in the cervical vertebrae and in the front part of the spine to approximately where the lungs end.
See also: Netnatur.dk/cns-kuglen-og-den-nye-alternative-hjerte-og-lungekugle + Netnatur.dk/cns-kuglen + Netnatur.dk/hvad-sker ved-kugletraef/piletraef – where all of the above is substantiated and explained in more detail – and where you can choose the language.