20 years aga I hit a small doe right thru the wind pipe in error. I was able to get close enough to her to finish her off but only because I was able to follow the sounds of her trying to suck wind thru the extra hole. Bad Bad shot to take!!!!and an ugly way to die.

NEVER!

What about the shot that's straight on......into the brisket? Would you take that one? I've seen several hit there on this board, it seems.

I think I'd stick with broadside or quartering away, maybe even very slightly quartering towards. I would be quite hesitant about a brisket shot but don't have any personal experience to go on. Thoughts?

It would not die from that alone. It could still breath, just not swallow, so it would die from starvation or infection first. It would be like giving the deer a tracheotomy.

EDIT: sorry, didn't read far enough before posting

Thats a risky shot as well, just not as risky as the neck shot. I won't take a brisket shot, to many things to go wrong. I've passed on 2 different140 class bucksthrough out the yearsbecause that was the only shot presented to me.

Another vote for never, ever!

I have done this when I was YOUNG and STUPID. I would never take that shot again. It was my first shot ever at a deer and I was 15. I should have known better. The buck ran off and I found not one drop of blood. It made me sick and I haven't done anything stupid since.

I met the oldman who shot the buck while he was outsearching for the deer. He described the buck's antlers, the shot angle, the reaction. (deer initially dropped in it's tracks)

He was looking for that deer nearly every day, for several weeks. He was convinced it had died quickly and was simply laying out there unfound.

Five weeks later...The buck was not there under my standone day when I hunted then two days later there he was. He was so emaciated that his gut was sucked in like a greyhound andhis bones were visible through his fur. What was once probably a 200lb on the hoof buck was down to no morethanhalf that. I cut out the slug, a type I didn't recognize.I posted a picture here on the gun boards and the fine folks her told me it was a brenneke KO. The same that this guy was using.

Same slug, same piece of property, same antler description, (deer that size are few and far between on this property) And unfortunately you could tell by looking at the deer that it had taken it a longwhile to succumb to it's injury. Given all that, it's a pretty safe assumption that it's the same deer.

Okay done rambling.. now to onto redundant photo posting.

This is rough way to go. (and the strongest argument I can make against purposeful neck shots)

My wife shot her buck this year in the neck. Hit a limb, arrow deflected, right through the jugular. She called me crying she was so ashamed of the shot. I have NEVER seen blood like that in my life, spraying 5 feet out each side, he didn't make it far.

Definitely not a shot to take, the jugular is a big vein...but REALLY small to think you could hit it on purpose. Not a shot to take intentionally, ever with a bow.