Topgun 3006

Not to worry Finn! Anybody that comes on a site with BS about getting more range practice when another says not to take head shots is full of baloney. It's just like you stated when you have no idea when the head will move and the bullet will do exactly as you stated. I just saw a photo of a cow elk a guy put up on another website a couple days ago and that cow's lower jaw was dangling down from a shot a guy took while he was watching from a distance. The cow ran off with the herd and will die a miserable death that the guy should suffer instead of her for doing that garbage! Head shots are unethical and I don't care if RR or anyone else can put every shot in one hole on the range!!! Then to hear him bragging about a 600+ yard head shot on another thread whether it was at a wounded animal or not is baloney when a body shot could be taken at a much bigger vital area. Cripes, the rifles I use on my hunts will all shoot one hole groups on the range if I do my part and I would never think of shooting at the head of an animal with them when it can move at any time. A pretty good shot I am, but I'm no clairvoyant and neither is any one else on this site to know when an animal might move its head and cause just what happened to that cow! People that try that garbage should have their license revoked and their gun stuck up where the sun don't shine!

Big Uncle

To each their own. Please do not let this turn into yet another spitting match. I simply posted this tale of woe so that others can have a laugh at my expense.

I hit that darn cow just exactly where I wanted to, but just clipped the edge of a vertebra. Big mistake! It took nearly 24 hours between the first shot and starting the truck to go home.

Neck shots may a good idea for some fellows - but I will not go down that long, steep, painful road again.

Streetdoctor

25 yards I'm zeroed. 100 yards I'm a little over 2" high. 50 yards I'm a hair over an inch.

I wouldn't take a head/neck shot on a big game animal unless it was from a rest with a known distance within 100 yards. I have head shot grouse with my 30-06 from a rest within 50 yards though.

Blackelk

Don't worry about shot placement just buy a 50 BMG. har har har

Topgun 3006

As was stated already and obviously what you and others who would try it can't comprehend is that the HEAD moves and a target doesn't. I've got a .243 Sako that I've put 10 shots in the bull of a STILL target, but will not attempt a shot at ANY distance at a living animal for the exact reasons that Finn and I have stated. It's an absolutely stupid, irresponsible thing to try!

finnbear

Topgun....I have the utmost confidence in my Sako 300 H&H but I would NEVER take a head or neck shot under hunting conditions!!! to many variables ...right up to that pesky old buck fever!!!! I have just saw way to many wounded animals.... I will say something here and I'm sure the old farts will agree ... there are so many carfull and ethical hunters out there that do just fine when it come to shooting a deer .....BUT put them on they first elk and all bets are off!!!!!!! 15 shots in 5 seconds when the elk have been gone for ten!!! I could go on ... I see it every year!!!!!

finnbear

Big Uncle you posted your tale of woe as a public service announcement, and I and others took it to heart, for what it was and we were ridiculed for not being skilled or proficient enough!!! no problems with you sir!!! you only tried to enlighten....................

Topgun 3006

You have got to me kidding me, LOL! With a bow? NO dang way Jose!!! That's even worse than the "get more range time" you made about Finn!!! Where did you get your hunting education, at a Holiday Inn Express one night?!!!

Tundra10

only a lung shooter here

although it may happen. In 38 yrs aint never not recovered

archeryelk1

I have to go with this too. I can't say I wouldn't take a neck shot if everything was ideal...but with that being said I've taken one neck shot in 29 years of hunting. Never lost an animal with a rifle, have lost elk with archery.

Now a neck shot with archery??? First time I've ever heard anyone say that...which really makes me think you're just having a little fun stirring the pot. I had a deer years ago that spun away when I released on a 47 yard shot and the arrow entered tight behind the shoulder and exited the neck, but I always target lungs with archery tackle.