I' m not trying to be rude here but the head is the worst possible place to TRY to kill a deer. Have you ever watched a deer for any length of time? How often does it move it' s head up and down and side to side? I' ll tell you. A LOT.

Have you ever seen a deer with the end of it' s nose or bottom jaw blown off because someone was trying to shoot it in the head and it looked the other way just as the person squeezed the trigger. Not very pretty to say the least.

In a hunting situation a " hunter" should never try to shoot a deer in the head. There is way too much that can go wrong. The deer will eventually die if you hit it in the face. But, it will be a slow and agonizing death from starvation or infection. An animal that is shot through the lungs will die within seconds. A deer that is shot in the face will die over days or weeks.

The target size is also much bigger for a lung shot. On a deer the lung area is about 9 to 11 inches and relatively still. The brain is about the size of a baseball and is constantly moving. Could you hit a baseball every time as it was bouncing around on a bungee cord? I highly doubt it.

We get enough of a bad name as it is with all of the anti hunters out there. We don' t need to make it worse for ourselves by trying to take a very risky shot and wounding an animnal. You can bet that it will die so an anti hunter will see it, or worse, someone that wasn' t anti hunting until they saw the deer with it' s jaw blown off and that' s another one that we turned against us.

Be responsible, take the beast shot possible. 99.99999% of the time it is the lung area.