I have heard that the artery is the size of a bow string. Just thought you'd like to know. I find it hard to believe that all the neck shots hit that. Must be something else in there.

Yea it's called a spine.

If that is the ONLY shot he had...............then he had no shot......and before everyone says that "he killed it right?"......that doesn't matter. I shot a doe in the arse one time with a shotgun and I let her go for awhile and then tracked her in the snow and finished the job. She's dead too........doesn't make my shot any better or advisable to take in the future.......and I didn't even take a bad shot........she was quartering away and I either flinched or had a flyer slug. Hitting somewhere you weren't aiming for and getting a lucky kill is one thing. Aiming for a very low % shot and hoping is another. IMO.

I have shot deer in the neck with a gun and seen my brother drop a deer with a spine shot right in it's tracks with a bow. I wouldn't advise either shot ever be taken on purpose.

That's a little scarey. When is a neck shot "needed"?? Wait a few more seconds and he will give you a chest shot........if not then the game is over and you lost. So what?? That is the great part about hunting.......sometimes everything goes your way and sometimes everything goes against you. Risking horrible injury and slow painful death to a deer just because you hung your stand one tree too far over or made a little too much noise drawing your bow is wrong on so many levels.

I hear so many people on these boards advocating letting deer walk if they are not "big enough".........shouldn't the same logic apply if you don't get a good shot opportunity??

I shoot my 3D target in the eye when I get bored of shooting at the vitals. I have full confidence I could make a neck shot.........I just never would.

Yo Eienstien, I've never shot a deer in the neck or the ass for that matter I'll leave that to yuppies like you. I stated if a buck of a life time came in and the only shot was his neck he's getting a ics 400 thru the jugler. I'll keep practicing the shot just in case.

Let's start playing nice before Uncle Justin has to do things he doesn't want to have to do.

Furthermore - I don't care who you are, how good of a shot you are, how big of a broadhead you're using, how fast your bow is, how long your arrow is, how many pushups you can do, how much you can bench press, how many hot dogs you can eat in a minute, or how many touchdowns you scored in your high school football career - shooting an animal in the neck/throat with an arrow is unacceptable.

There's my 2 cents - where's my gumball?

I don't know what is funnier..........you calling me a yuppy...........or the fact that you don't know how to spell Einstein

Nice to know your ethics change based on the size of a deer's rack.

How are you going to shoot a deer in the jugler?? Are you gonna aim for the little guy in his neck tossing balls in the air?? If you don't even know what a jugular is how do you plan on hitting it??

Wow

bad shot ive learned from experience

Hey I wouldn't even consider the arse shot you put on that big ole doe. That's your fettish.

Listen, mo honkey or whatever your handle is, you say you'll keep on shooting the neck shot, sure nobody can tell you where to shot or what to kill, but it people like you who do this unethical crap that makes the rest of us real hunters look bad. I'm sure I'll get some rude reply from this but I got big shoulders. If you did your homework and didn't get rattled so much you wouldn't need to shot the deer in the neck. Your not a bowhunter, because a real bowhunter would have ethics and would never shot a deer in the neck. OH! Yeah, the buck Stan Potts shot was luck, he should have never taken that shot, We all make mistakes and so did he but I can bet you he dosen't say he practices that shot on a forum with so many hardcore ethical hunters. I hope the administrators take that uwful picture off it's a discrace to bowhunting.