ORIGINAL: MNpurple
Dont get me wrong, I wont take this shot, BUT I would say your chances of hitting a vital in the upper part of the neck are extremely good. Say you aim at the white patch area. This part of the neck is maybe 6-7 inches wide in in that area you have to huge vital veins, a windpipe, and the spine. I would say it would be hard not to hit a vital there. It a shot I have been taught to always avoid and I do but it seems like there is alot there to hit, if your in the upper part of the neck?
And say the deer ducked when the bow went off, what your going to hit is snout or mouth or maybe even skull. I cringe even at the thought of that.
And HNI Christine how do you know that deer died 5 weeks later? Because gun season was 5 weeks prior? Could not that deer have been pouched and died sooner than 5 weeks?