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Where do you shoot your deer? I usually aim for a neck shot. They go down instantly.

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Heart Lung area. On a broadside I like the bottom 3rd where the heart meets with the lungs. On a 1/4 away I like the high lungs through the opposite shoulder(scapula).

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If its further then 75yds i aim for the heart and lungs. Closer then 75 i put the crosshairs right on the head that way there is no waisted meat.

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Move your mouse to the tail!


http://www.tnoutdoorsmen.com/killzone.htm

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Good one Rebel Hog!!!!!

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I'll aim at the top of Rebel Hog's red dot.;) Reb, I wish we had deer with those markings in Pa.:D

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The lungs are the way to go in my opinion.

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http://home.mn.rr.com/deerfever/Anatomy.html

The lungs/heart is the only ethical choice, too many variable for wounded animals aiming anywhere else.

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One thing that shooting one in the neck does for sure, it costs more for a replacement cape at the taxidermists. Go for the lungs. I charge an additional $75 for neck shots.

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spudrow...check your manual from Hunter/Bowhunter safety course..get back to us....................shoot em in da ass?????what?????

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Sorry but I have not gone to the bow hunting safty course. Enlighten me!
I of course am speaking about gun hunting. I would never aim for the neck with a bow. Better shot with a rifle.
One of the main reasons I shoot em in the neck is because they don't run away, they aren't stressed or all tensed up, which I believe adds to the wild taste of the meat, and to me it's more humane to make a quick clean kill. That's just the way I do it. Not trying to make anyone else do it my way. It just works for me.

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If it is within 50 yrds I shoot it in the head. Within 100yrds the neck and past the 100yrd mark I go for the heart/lungs. If I ever get a chance to shoot a buck that I want to mount I would shoot for the lung/heart no matter the distance.

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How much meat are you wasting by a lung shot? The couple ounces between the ribs? If you even trim them for grind.

Lungs and heart for me!

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:D:D:D:D:D:DThe Red is the heart, the White is the Lungs and the Yellow is the Spine.
I aim right between the Red and the White.

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My buddy decided that shooting the neck was the way to go last year. Till he lost 2 does with this method. Heart-lung for me.

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ditto, except for the head shots, thats just to nasty looking, specially with children around. I've done it before, yauuuuckkkk

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That'd be something to imagine, a doe on the ground, and where her head is supposed to be, all there is is blood, hair, and teeth![:'(]
Most likely the brains'll slop out like over-boiled spaghetti.;)

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top of the heart. this means BANG-FLOP

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Actually for me anyways, the deer I have shot in the heart were the ones that ran the farthest, up to a 100 yds, a double lung hit never went more than 40 yds for me anyway. And I am talking about at least 50 deer.

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top of the heart. this means BANG-FLOP





Yeap what he said! Heart and lung then if you slip a little you may get the liver.

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what does shooting in the neck prove???so youre a good shot. Never catch me shooting in the neck,I like to find my deer. ive only had one deer notdrop in its tracks.All my shots are square through the heart.

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Amen. Shooting for the neck to save meat is one of those oft repeated comments that has always mystified me. Who eats deer ribs? There's barely enough meat on them to interest a hungry yard dog much less for a human to fool with. On the other handthere's a pretty decent neck roast at the base of a deers neck.

I have never liked head and neck shots either. I know that some people online will claim to have done it umpteen gillion times without a hitch but trust me it's a risky shot under field conditions with little margin for error. Ever ran across a deer in the woods with it's upper or lower jaw shot off? I have and it's not a pretty sight I can tell you. Deer are constantly moving their head and neck even when they are standing still. It doesn't take much of a move at just the right moment to turn a lethal head/neck shot into a maimed and lost animal.

The heart lung shot is by far the safest bet. It's a more stationary target and the largest lethal area on the animal. Stick a bullet behind his shoulder and he's not going more than 50 yards. And trust me your dog won't care about the holes in the rib cages you feed him.

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I wait until they are looking straight at me and then I shoot them right between the eyes....

Just kidding.

When you are trying to make a tackle on defense in footballI was taught to always focus on the runners belly button. Why? because his belly button don't move. Where his belly button is, so is the runner. He can juke with his head all he wants to, but the belly button don't lie.
That is why my favorite shot is in the vitals north of the diaphram, and I really like to keep from taking out the shoulders because I like the meat. A perfect shot for me is squarely through the ribs, and if not perfect maybe through one of the shoulder blades.

C. Davis

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What does shooting a deer with a bow prove ?

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That you definately didn't shoot at his neck.

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That you can get a whitetail within 20 yards from you and hit it in a "vital" organ. If people are worried about waisting that tasty rib meat with a lung shot you should take up bowhunting. You don't have to worry about wasting any meat.

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I'm with Rebel Hog, Rob/PA & NY Bowhunter on this 100%. However, I do very occasionally take them via neck/head shots when they are in tall grass, etc. where that is all they will present for the shot.

Bu the way, the head shots really don't fare well for pictures! [X(]

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So if I shoot a deer in the neck I am trying to prove something?
Why do you have to prove you can get wthin 20 yds and hit it with an arrow.
By the way I am a bowhunter too. I dont hunt with a bow to prove anything, I hunt with it because it gives me an extra month to hunt.
With a rifle I shoot'em in the neck beause... it's the most humane and quickest kill, theres no stress on the deer which makes the meat better, there is no tracking, theres no meat loss.

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So what happens if you are off on the neck shot and have to chase them with little or no blood.I dont know why I'm even argueing about this with you.A heart shot is the most dependable and quickest kill at any distant.

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Nevermind......... now I understand.

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I always go for the heart/lungs area.

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Is that being sarcastic ? Like I am some lazy hunter ?
Here in South Texas our country is rough. The brush here is thick and I mean thick. Every plant is out to get you, every plant has thorns and I mean huge ones, even the trees have thorns. You have to wear denim and leather gloves to venture in the brush after a deer. The brush harbors lots of rattlesnakes too. We probably have the highest population of rattlesnakes in the country. So crawling around on your hands and knees in thorny snake infested country is not fun.

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I think hunting in Ecuador would be harder than Texas, because first off, you can barely breathe, and second, it's extremely mountainous there.
Third, I'll betcha that there's more poisonous snakes in the rainforest than in Texas!

For America, I'd guess that Florida deer hunting in a swamp would be even worse, your deer sinks in the water, you're felling your way throgh muddy water, and there's cottonmouths which you can't "run" away from, there's Alligators, Alligator-Snapping-Turtles, and god-knows what [email protected]!:D(Boy, I should give deer hunting on www.yahoo.com a try!:D:D) Here I come!

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So taking out a few ribs on either side of a deer wastes MORE meat than a slug to the neck???

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lungs with a bow and high shoulder with a gun

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I use lungshots.

The problem with neck shots is that you must severe the vertebrae to ensure a clean kill.If the bullet strikes close to the vertebrae,the deer usually falls to the ground stunned.However it is usually up and running again in short order.I have had to track three deer shot in the neck by other people.One had to be shot again and the other two bled out eventualy,but travelled a long ways before we found them.Head shots can be even worse if the jaw is shot off and the animal starves to death.
The lungs are a lot bigger target so the odds of a lost animal are much lower.

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It doesn't matter to me if you shoot it in the head, neck, shoulder, lungs, texas heart shot, the choice is yours. Do what ever you are comfortable with. I aim for the shoulder blade with a gun and behind the shoulder with a bow. I had something happen to me my first year hunting that has influenced me personallyto never shoot at a deer's head or neck. I had a small buck come in at about 100 yards and I must have had buck fever, because I hit its head even though I aimed for the lungs. I tracked the deer for over a mile before completely losing the blood trail. Two days later another hunter shot the deer and it's jaw was hanging off. That must have been a pretty miserable couple of days. So, even though I am much more confident with my shooting ability and less influenced by buck fever I can imagine that being off as little as an inch or two, could change the situation from having a deer on the ground to one in which a deer starves to death weeks later.

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Ding Ding Ding!!!!! Nybh happens to care about bowhunting, He tracks them and drags them out himself. He has said he's very fit and trains for deer season. Him and bubba dont jump in the 'ol beater and drive through the holler throwin beer cans out the windo as he goes to pick up the deer.