I shot the biggest buck I've ever seen alive last year in the neck. It was an accident. He came so fast I didn't have time to get ready and when he stopped I rushed and blew the shot. He bled like MAD for 200 yards then nothing. A tiny drop now and then with clots. This was a 4 year or older buck with a 160 class 9 point rack. The arrow passed right over the top of the spine in the center of his neck and stuck in the ground over a foot. He was seen by another hunter a week later making a monster rub with huge scabs on both sides of his neck! And he's been seen this year with another huge set of antlers! I took a lot of grief on this site last year for making that shot...which was not intentional.

I will never ever shoot a buck in the neck again no matter how big or what kind of shot he presents. A head on shot is a possibility, but not likely.