I have never taken a head shot and probably never will. I have taken several with a neck shot, but only at close range. I had a friend of mine take a head shot at a large spike several years ago and shot one of the spikes rightoff. Funny thing is, the deer just ran about 10 yards and stopped. He didn't know what just happened. The second shot was in the neck and he went down for good. An inch lower on the first shot and we would have probably had an unrecoverable wounded deer. A head shot is just too risky in my book, unless the deer was at point blank range. Even then, I'm still not aiming for the head. I'll take a close neck shot though, but I'm talking real close.