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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1873776" data-attributes="member: 4319">I rank neck shooters slightly above left-lane campers and slightly below wife beaters. Intentionally neck shooting a deer is like telling someone to &quot;shoot for the kneecaps&quot; 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 &#039;sploded.I&#039;ve seen this and it&#039;s not pretty. You have a few things the size of your thumb to hit with a neck shot. Miss them and you&#039;ve got an unrecoverable deer. I&#039;d rather trail a gut shot deer than a deer with a non-fatal neck/brisket/face wound. And I&#039;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&#039;ll still have a dead deer and likely blood to follow. Blood trailing and big game hunting go hand-in-hand. I don&#039;t get &quot;not liking&quot; trailing. Trailing is one of the most important things you can teach a new hunter. It&#039;s actually one of my favorite parts; I&#039;ll leave the stand to help a fellow hunter trail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1873776, member: 4319"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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