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Neck shots on deer?
Hillbilly:
I wouldn't try a neck shot with a bow. I've killed quite a few deer with neck shots with a gun, but I've had to finish a few of them off, too. I shot one in the neck a couple years ago that hit the ground like it was poleaxed. As I was climbing down out of the tree, it got up and took off. Never found anything but a few hairs and two drops of blood. I don't think it even came close to killing it, just temporarily paralyzed it. That was the last neck shot I intentionally took on a deer.
profsaffel:
--- Quote from: El Destructo on September 22, 2010, 05:42:45 pm ---OK....now for my two cents.....a neck shot with a Bow is not only risky business....but in my book...kind of reckless....if done with a rifle...the kinetic energy does so much damage that along with the bullets devastation there is little chance of a wounded animal...but with a Bow....compounds or stick...this is not the case....6-7 years ago I shot a big whitetail doe....when I went to.dress her out...I noticed a growth on the side of her neck....so I took my knife and cut the hide where the lump was...half expecting to find a tumor under it....well what I found was an aluminum shaft....so I.flopped her over to find another lump on the other side....this poor deer had been show through the neck....had broken the shaft off I'm both sides....and had healed up and survived this ordeal....so I could never condone the neck shooting of a deer with a Bow....enough of the rant....
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This is good enough to convince me! Of course, I wasn't considering the neck shot anyway. I'll do well to hit the boiler I figure.
mullet:
I shot one at 65yds last year with my flintlock in the neck. I was as bloody as the deer by the time I got her loaded up in the 'Gator. I've got scars on both arms where she kicked and worked me over with her hooves. I finally found my hammer to put her down and save me a little blood. I'll pass on a bow shot to the neck on a deer, but a head shot on a hog is a different story.
Mechslasher:
a neck shot with trad gear is a high risk shot to be sure. when i shot compounds, i took several with a quartering toward me shot at the base of the neck. this shot proved 100% fatal with a 2" expanding broadhead going through the entire chest cavity. the last deer i killed with a compound was a six pointer walking toward me. hit him just below the throat patch, he fell over backwards spraying everything within 10'. this may seem reckless, but i could shoot a 3" group at 60 yards with a compound back in the day. i've killed two animals with trad gear with accidental neck shots. a 150lb boar and a 100+lb doe. the boar fell over at eddie's feet but i had to finish off the doe with a second shot. deer react much too fast for necks shots with trad gear.
Thwackaddict:
I agree with chris,only neck shot i'd be willing to take would be a quartering to and only to slip the arrow into the vitals.Neck shots are too iffy.deer moves just a bit and you got problems.i shot a bedded down doe with my wheelie a few years back.Nailed her dead center of the throat patch and expandable didnt open she jumped up and off she went and my arrow jus fell out.Head was gobbed up with hair not a drop of blood.No more neck shots for me.Put one in the ppump staion!Much better results ;)
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