TH, Sorry about picking on you fellers. I was just playing off of your statement about " lots of people in the south..." Mainly I was saying just because people do it, doesn' t make it right. Going off of the original post about a deer standing at 75 yards, no, you should not ever hit it in the jaw, but I have seen it happen, and holes shot in the throat with the deer breathing through that hole. It' s pretty sad and the deer can live for a long time that way, at least until they die of dehydration because they can' t drink.
We also both know that many people don' t practice shooting enough, or sling slugs out of a smoothbore shotgun, or shake uncontrollably at the sight of a deer. I will not advise anyone to take a neck shot at 75 yards, anymore than I would recommend having sex with your cousin is a good idea just because it happens in certain parts of the country. Oops.