I'll tell you something, I shotseveral deer in the neck, but I have seen deer shot clean through the esophagus and were wounded and took a long time to recover and finishing shots. Truth is it's a small target area shot and one false move at the wrong time on the deers part and you have a tracking hob on your hands. One time a buck came walking by me and his whole lower jaw was hanging down from his face. Seems someone took a head or neck shot and missed, hitting him in the face. This was at first light and the deer was soaking wet, having just come out of a pond he had spent the night soaking in, trying to stop the bleeding and lower his fever. I had to shoot him as it was the only humane thing to do.

After that it was only Heart lung for me also. But since learning the shoulder/spine shot I do nothing else. If I go high, it takes his spine out, low it takes the lungs and or heart out.