Im not sure why people keep making a distinction between a heart shot and and a lung shot . If you look at the several vital diagrams that have been posted in this thread, you will see the heart sits low in btween the lungs, in fact, the only way I can conceive hitting the heart and not also hitting the lungs is if you shot the deer from directly below it, or from directly behind. yet people keep posting that a lung shot is better than a heart shot