RE: Shot placement
It doesn't matter to me if you shoot it in the head, neck, shoulder, lungs, texas heart shot, the choice is yours. Do what ever you are comfortable with. I aim for the shoulder blade with a gun and behind the shoulder with a bow. I had something happen to me my first year hunting that has influenced me personallyto never shoot at a deer's head or neck. I had a small buck come in at about 100 yards and I must have had buck fever, because I hit its head even though I aimed for the lungs. I tracked the deer for over a mile before completely losing the blood trail. Two days later another hunter shot the deer and it's jaw was hanging off. That must have been a pretty miserable couple of days. So, even though I am much more confident with my shooting ability and less influenced by buck fever I can imagine that being off as little as an inch or two, could change the situation from having a deer on the ground to one in which a deer starves to death weeks later.