Me too. I have lost a few deer that were shot behind the shoulders but never a deer shot in the neck.
I took a head shot on the first deer I ever took with a bow. WHY? cause my arrow clipped a small limb. The deer ran off but only about 50 yards. The arrow had entered one ear and exited the other. The fletchen were hung up in his ears..That little limb only caused my arrow to be off about 2 feet. That was around 40 years ago and it was the last head shot on a deer with a bow with me.
Me three, except I can say I have only lost one deer and it was shot behind the shoulders with a mz. I will always think I was a little high. Shot above his lungs and below his spine. He fell like a rock and then got up and ran off. We tracked him for over a mile and never found him.
Shot every deer I've killed behind the shoulder. None went anywhere. Not sure what that means but that's where I was taught to aim. 100 yards the kill zone is huge in my 3-9. Easy work.
I rank neck shooters slightly above left-lane campers and slightly below wife beaters.
Intentionally neck shooting a deer is like telling someone to "shoot for the kneecaps" in a self-defense situation and proponents of the practice should be ridiculed like leg-shooters are ridiculed in the self-defense forum.
It means it is impossible for a deer to live with holes through both its lungs and/or its heart 'sploded.
I've seen this and it's not pretty. You have a few things the size of your thumb to hit with a neck shot. Miss them and you've got an unrecoverable deer. I'd rather trail a gut shot deer than a deer with a non-fatal neck/brisket/face wound. And I've trailed both (not mine). Hanging around the local processor at the end of gun season will reveal some neck-shot wonders, too.
Yup. And even if you screw it up a bit, you'll still have a dead deer and likely blood to follow. Blood trailing and big game hunting go hand-in-hand. I don't get "not liking" trailing. Trailing is one of the most important things you can teach a new hunter. It's actually one of my favorite parts; I'll leave the stand to help a fellow hunter trail.
Intentionally neck shooting a deer is like telling someone to "shoot for the kneecaps" in a self-defense situation and proponents of the practice should be ridiculed like leg-shooters are ridiculed in the self-defense forum.
It means it is impossible for a deer to live with holes through both its lungs and/or its heart 'sploded.
I've seen this and it's not pretty. You have a few things the size of your thumb to hit with a neck shot. Miss them and you've got an unrecoverable deer. I'd rather trail a gut shot deer than a deer with a non-fatal neck/brisket/face wound. And I've trailed both (not mine). Hanging around the local processor at the end of gun season will reveal some neck-shot wonders, too.
Yup. And even if you screw it up a bit, you'll still have a dead deer and likely blood to follow. Blood trailing and big game hunting go hand-in-hand. I don't get "not liking" trailing. Trailing is one of the most important things you can teach a new hunter. It's actually one of my favorite parts; I'll leave the stand to help a fellow hunter trail.
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Also, I must post Roos7a's favorite picture.
"I clean missed him. Ran off and no blood."
That is one of the most disturbing pictures I've seen in a long time. So I'm going to repost it in the quote.
So, how many deer have you missed while aiming for the neck?
