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RE: Neck shot
I have to agree w/the others, a neck shot is too risky. The percentage of error is too great. We all like to make a quick clean kill, & a shot off mark thru the neck has a much better chance of wounding/killing.
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RE: Neck shot
I wouldn't personally take the shot but I do know afew people who say they prefer the shot so as to not ruin much meat (provided they consider it a "close enough" shot). These are the same people who take head shots. Ithink the broadside shot with or without an exit wound damages very little meatand is much more humane.
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RE: Neck shot
NEVER<EVEREVEREVEREVEREVEREVREERVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
Hatchet Jack |
RE: Neck shot
ORIGINAL: MNpurple No biology expert, but if you severe a deers windpipe, is it not automatically dead or would that deer live for some time? No, it is not automatically dead. Think of it as a person who has to have a tube in there neck due to throat cancer or something of that nature. The lungs and heart are still functional and still able to breathe. All you are doing by severing the windpipe is creating another opening for air and causing a long, painful death by infection. |
RE: Neck shot
I had a Bonafide Hog at 8 yards this year and was at Full Draw. The only shot I had was the neck and yes it was tempting he was so close, but I knew better and did NOT take the shot.
As Bowhunters we have to know when to Hold and when to Let'er Go. It's not always an easy choice;) Dan |
RE: Neck shot
No Way!
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RE: Neck shot
ORIGINAL: seller i was just asking cuz i have seen alot of guys shootat the rangeand they are very acurrate, and i was just thinking that if you are at 10 yards or less and the only thing you see on the deer is the neck if it would be a good shot. but i guess not.....i did not know i was going to get this many responses....thanks for the advice.....still trying to get my first deer. |
RE: Neck shot
NEVER, period.
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RE: Neck shot
ORIGINAL: MNpurple Dont get me wrong, I wont take this shot, BUT I would say your chances of hitting a vital in the upper part of the neck are extremely good. Say you aim at the white patch area. This part of the neck is maybe 6-7 inches wide in in that area you have to huge vital veins, a windpipe, and the spine. I would say it would be hard not to hit a vital there. It a shot I have been taught to always avoid and I do but it seems like there is alot there to hit, if your in the upper part of the neck? And HNI Christine how do you know that deer died 5 weeks later? Because gun season was 5 weeks prior? Could not that deer have been pouched and died sooner than 5 weeks? |
RE: Neck shot
Hunter education course for bow hunting might not be such a bad idea after all,it just amazes me how many times i see questions like this on different forums...
If some body was going to harm you or oyur family and you had a gun would you shoot them in the leg,i dont think so you plugem in the upper torso vitals right,so why should it be any different for a animal........;) |
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