It really is not a good shot to take. The brain is a weird thing. You can lose half of it and still function fine or you can lose the smallest part of it and now you're a vegetable. If you shoot a deer through the boiler room and get heart and lung then you're probably better off.

I watched my buddy shoot a deer in the head at 50-75 yards 3 years ago with a muzzleloader. He had knocked his scope off kilt and got EXTREMELY lucky. Deer dropped like a ton of bricks. Definately not the shot to take. Like was said earlier, it moves too much. If you can take a shot at an 8 inch target that isn't moving much or a 1 inch target moving all over the place which one would you rather take?

people wonder why hunters have a bad name, come on people. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What if you just slightly missed and took the deer's jaw off, with an arrow hanging in whats left of the deer's face. Then this deer struggles into some non-hunters backyard. Then they call the local TV station, get my drift. DON'T EVER SHOOT a deer in the head, EVER!!!!

I prefer to shot their balls off first. It seems to get them a little mad.

This is a good reason why to not take that shot... Notice the square hole... looks about the size of a 4 blade broadhead that made it about halfway in... imagine the blood trail, probably non existant, and this buck went to waste.

I thought that a head shot would work great one time. When I was younger I had a doe stick her head out from behind a tree as I was still hunting my way through a creek bed. She caught me and thats the only shot I had at her unless she turned to run. I took the shot. Quite possibly the worst thing I have ever done. The bullet missed the brain and hit her where the jaw connects to the skull, basically ripping her jaw off. And the worst part was that it didn't kill her. Lucky I was able to shoot her again in a matter of seconds and finish the job. I wouldn't recommend this shot to anyone with any weapon. I love to hunt and love to be successful but not at the cost of what I remember from that day. Please just wait for a better shot.

No kidding I agree 100%. This forum usually has a lot good useful info on it. However, today some people on here are not using their head and posting some flat out stupid things. Sometimes I wonder if its still safe to even be in the woods with some of the things that are being talked about lately.

At least they came on and asked rather than just coming on here and posting about how they can't believe the one they shot in the head got away.[&:][:@]

At least they asked.

I consider the head shot the easiest shot in the world to take with a bow............NOT. Dude that guy is lucky that he hit the son of a gun in the head. He was probably aiming for the lungs and pulled his shot off. Hold on let me think....Do I want to shoot this deer in the head and have a 1 in 563,246 (random statistic)chance of actually connecting or do I want to shoot for the lungs which is a money shot.......Decisions Decisions.

its legal, take the shot

Take the shot? Why?

Let me ask you this, why would you *want* to take that shot?

That's just an absurd way to hunt. We have all encountered deer that presented no shot other than the head, but hunting is a lot about patience. If that deer *never* presents itself to you in an ethical way, maybe the next one will. Sit it out and wait. Unless you have a deer charging you because you spilled doe in estrus all over your garb, like happened to my father in law, I don't see the point in taking such a shot.