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Old 12-11-2002 | 08:50 AM
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6ptsika
 
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From: Hamilton Square NJ USA
Default RE: neck shot...

I won't take the neck shot, I've seen too many deer killed in my club that were shot in the neck above the spine by some other guy a half a mile away on the other side of the field. On any decent sized deer, you shoot a couple of inches high, there's nothing there but muscle. Just remember when you take the neck shots, if you're a couple or more inches high, you could be condemning the deer to die days later.
Never could figure why someone wouldn't want to shoot them in the chest? The only good shot is a broadside shot for the average hunter, even more so for the younger, less experienced guys. I take John Wooten's advice, picture a basketball in the center of the deer's chest, and aim for the center. Sure, if the deer's close, and relaxed, I may take the heart shot or lung shot to not waste any meat, but why get fancy? No other shot leaves as much margin of error as the chest shot, you have 6 inches or so, at least, in every direction, andd you're still in the kill zone. You miss by half that high on the neck, you have a wounded deer.

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