I know the feeling and hate when I have to do that. Sometimes I actually feel like quiting hunting all together after that.

I shoot them in the lungs. Nothing to waste there but rib meat.

I don't shoot the head or neck. I need them to tie the drag rope to and I feel if none hunters see that it may turn them against hunting.Seeing a deaddeer with an eyeball hanging out isn't a pretty sight. I sometimes hunt a state park and encounter nonhunters quite often.