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Neck shots on deer?
Cacatch:
All good responses and very much appreciated. I was considering going for the neck, because I know that if you can get your point into the spine just behind the brain, it will immobilize/drop/kill the deer, but it is tricky as stated because it's a smaller target.
What it really ammounts to is my day-dreaming about season starting has got me to thinking up things like this. Opening day is still a week and a half away so what else can I do til then but practice and dream? ;D
I guess it reallly depends on the shot that is presented, if any. If it's a pretty close shot, which in my set-up it just might be under 10 yards, I might go for the neck, otherwise I'll just go for the kill zone.
Thanks again for the responses guys...
CP
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
2 years ago i was really on my shooting game. i had nothing but time so i shot all the time and got really good that year. i was borderline cocky about my shooting, but i shot a deer in the neck that year. i was hunting in a small creek bed and had a trail crossing at 14ish yards and a doe came by but i mis-judged the height of the grass and all i could see was her head and neck so i aimed for the corner of the throat patched and let it fly and this was the result. the trade points burrowed into the spine and she went straight down, i gave a quick follow up shot through the back once i stood to my feet, but the neck shot did the trick. i probably wont aim for the neck much again, but if its something i feel good about, i wont hesitate. lots of stuff in there to hit, its just a small target.
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Pat B:
I would not try a neck shot! A good friend of mine was accidentally shot through the neck with a .357 a few months ago. The bullet went in one side, out the other and into his shoulder. It didn't hit anything vital and he is fine today.
Give me a broadside or quartering away shot in the boiler room any time!!!
El Destructo:
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....
Cacatch:
Wow Mike, that sucks. But on the good side, I bet you felt good to put her out of her misery. Can you imagine how she felt in cold weather, walking around with aluminum transversing her neck. Good thing you got her anyway. Thanks for your input.
CP
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