Originally Posted by
buckman11
Ive shot em straight on in the neck and they drop in their tracks. Ive also had friends barely nick the edge of their neck and they dropped where they stood. In all the years Ive been hunting Neither me, Nor any of my buddies have lost a neck shot deer. In fact, every one of em dropped where they stood. I'm always gonna take the Lung shot if Ive got it, But I'm never afraid to take a neck shot if its the best one Ive got.
I doubt seriously that those friends that "barely nicked the neck" didn't have to make a killing shot after the deer went down unless they cut the jugular! I learned that a long time ago when that was the only shot I had on a doe and I wacked her with my 06 at about 40 yards and just as I shot she turned her head a little. She dropped like she was hit over the head with a sledge hammer and started what I thought was her "death kick". I got my stuff together in the tree stand and when I looked up she was on her feet and walking wobbily straight away and not offering any kind of a shot. I got down, went back to the cabin because it was almost dark and got a gas lantern to track her. There were only a few little spots of blood on the light snow the first fifty yards and I followed her tracks for 1/2 mile with no sign that she was even hit. That, I can guarantee, was from one of those "barely nicked the neck" shots and the only deer I've ever shot at and lost, but I'm convinced she walked off just shaken up and I've never taken that shot again. At least the OP didn't talk head shots, as that would have really got me started, LOL!