My answer to the original question: No.
CAN they drop dead? Yep...often do. But not every time. Be patient, and put the shot where it belongs (as far as I'm concerned) 2 lungs.

A good neck shot will drop them but the lungs/heart etc make better targets depending on the gun. I like to use buck shot/ssg DO NOT shoot a deer with buckshot in the neck if you are more then 30 yards away! I have seen two people shooted them in the neck with buck shot and they never hit a single vital spot! if you got slugs use them for neck shots, a rifle no problem under 75 yard to be sure you hit a vital spot. with a gun to drop them DEAD in there track shoot them right in the HEAD!(if you don't care about horns or it is a doe)

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Head and neck shots are even worse with a bow.Unless you hit the center of the spine, the broadhead will glance off the vertebre and the wound will not result in a quick clean kill.

A neck shot with a bow has got to be just about the worse possible, irresponsible shot that anyone could attempt!
I think that even if you were starving to death, you could wait for a better shot than that!
As hunters, we owe more respect than that to the game animals that we hunt!

i dont like neck shots.shot through both shoulders is much better.

slayer

Ive always aimed for the crease right behind the shoulder. Never had to look for a deer more than 50 yards. More often than not it rolls them! and if you keep it in the ribs behind the shoulder there is very minimal meat damage even from a 12 gauge slug!

I have made some neck shots on occasion with great results, but my bread and butter shot is right behind the shoulder.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Also I too think a head or neck shot with a bow is CRAZY.

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Edited by - PORK CHOP on 09/07/2002 21:54:23

Too much room for error...I learned the hard way a few years back! Shoot were they live...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hunt Safe!

Jack

Neck shot ain't good fer nuthin' but a close range, straight on killin' shot to drop a wounded animal. Why shrink the target area? Why risk losin' an' animal thet may move his head right when you pull the trigger? I can tell you first hand thet a neck shot don't allays drop an animal straight away. Fragile bullets at close range will blow up, or get diverted on the heavy muscles of a big animal. They run a long ways an' head fer thick cover or steep ground. All these velocity crazy, &quot;place yer shot&quot; shooters need to learn some solid hunting lessons...probably the hard way. Heavy fer caliber bullets centered on the center of the shoulder is the way to make meat 'thout riskin' wounded animals an' long tracks. Fact is, I think most hunters thet wound game don't even bother with a proper track. They write it off as a missed shot or not worth the trouble. Seen two fellers open up on a herd of elk onct. Kilt several animals shootin' thru their multiple targets an' swithchin' targets when the first critter didn't drop right away. Seein' all the blood sign droppin' over the rim of a canyon made me want to slice someone up. The two fellers didn't seem concerned at all. They were too busy arguin' over the one bull thet dropped. After seein' the look on my face after checkin' the sign, the outfitter wisely took these two back to camp immediately, an' kept 'em far from my sight 'til they packed out. I got lil' patience fer shooters thet pretend to be hunters. Huntin' ain't a shootin' sport. Its about the Outdoors. 'Thout no respect fer nature an' the game, you'd be better off keepin' yer huntin' on these boards than risk runnin' into a real outdoorsman.

BJ