I neck shot a deer years ago and will never do it again. I was about a mile back in and I had decided if the deer was close enough and it was a clean shot I would take a neck shot. Well the doe was close enough and I took a broadside neck shot, it killed her instantly. I will qualify this though, I had killed a lot of deer before this and knew exactly where to shoot and I knew I would hit my mark. The shot blew the spine to pieces and ruined a whole lot of good meat in the neck.

There my confession is out of the way, the boiler room is the only way I had ever gone before and will continue to be in the future. As others have said there is to small of a target in the neck for the average shooter, the boiler room is one that anyone can hit, if not you have no business hunting. A bow shot in the neck is STUPID!!!! I would challenge almost any new hunter to show me where to shoot a deer in the neck, most will shoot to high, some to low. If you do not know where the spine is you definantly have no business trying this shot.

The next time I am way back in there I will do a double shoulder shot.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club