With all of the hunting I have done, I have seen one time where a neck shot was my only option, i dropped the deer right there....was I impressed...Absolutely not!!! He was still wheezing and his eyes were moving 5 minutes later. To me with when you consider how animals move their head/neck so constantly and rapidly it makes no sense to purposely always go for this shot..There is one guy at our deer camp who swears by this shot but he has by far the lowest percentage of shots/kill/recovered game.

RIBCAGE ALL THE WAY!!!!

BTW the horror stories of jawless deer staving and suffering is no BS..seen it personally and have heard about it...