Justin

I have a confession to make - I'm addicted to hunting videos. Every week I make a pilgrimage up to the Bass Pro Shops and always manage to come home with a new DVD to watch. So far this year I've picked up Drury's Whitetail Madness 8 and Dream Season 8, as well as the first season of the Dream Season TV Show, Kisky's Whitetails Taking it to the Extreme 5, Wild Outdoors Most Wanted, Primos Truth 12, and now Primetime Bucks 9.

They're all great productions with a lot of really good footage in them but I've been very disturbed the the amount of deer being shot in the neck. At first I thought maybe it was just a fluke - an error in judgement - a mistake, if you will. But after seeing at least 4 or 5 shots that I can say were purposely taken either directly at the neck, or quartering in front of the shoulder I just don't know what the !#@% is going on here. Did I miss the boat somewhere when the great Gods of bowhunting came down upon us and said "Go ahead and shoot deer in the throat, it's okay."?

So what's the story here? Am I seeing more of these shots just for the sake of having video footage to show people, or are there more and more people who honestly think this is a good shot to take?

Discuss.

bowngun88

i am not saying this is a good shot at all but one time my shot was off and it in the deer right in the neck it dropped right ther and died within a few seconds. but i highly doubt that happens often. as for the videos im not sure what they are tryin to do

Allseasonhunter7

ik idk i luke the chestheartlungs etc but ik people who say they shoot them in the next

Justin

What?

BobCo19-65

Without seeing the video's I am assuming we are only talking bow. IMO that is definetely not a shot to purposely take with a bow. alon gwith that would be a frontal shot, head shot, and quartering to shot.

On another note, I saw an elk taken with a bow this week on the Outdoor Channel. It's funny how they edit out the second shot and only say what a great shot he took.

ash2042

That great Allseason.

mobow

I know a lot of people that shoot them in the neck with a rifle, but I agree, not a good bow shot at all. I am a big fan of Michael Waddel, but in one of his shows he shoots a quartering too deer in front of the shoulder, like in the chest, almost head on. After that I too started seeing a lot of those kinds of shots being taken. I don't like them too much either, but in their defense, it apparently does work.
Justin, maybe we should start up a hunting videos anonymous. I, too, have a problem. I am addicted to hunting shows.

rybohunter

A neck shot is not a good one to take in my opinion. I have noticed some videos loosening the reigns on some quartering to shots, but not a flat out neck shot yet. Some people will argue for neck shots all day long, I am not one of them.

Double Creek

Ever since each hunter has had his own set of standards and ethics

ash2042

Do you guys think the hunter on the video is pressured to get a kill. Maybe that is why they are taking those shots. I don't agree with those shots either just trying to figure out why someone would do that.