Unless she is attacking, you don't have to shoot. Too much chance of the deer moving at the shot. Yes, we all get a pass every once in a while but I wouldn't expect the same result very often.
Bumped the tree on my draw, didn't do it on purpose, had an good blood trail. 150 yards and found him. Blood thinned out then got heavy again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ive shot multiple deer in the neck with a rifle. Every one dropped like a sack of potatos, never taking a single step. Not a shot I would purposely attempt with my bow but, has been pretty effective with a rifle.
The world record "Beatty Buck" was shot in the neck. Coming straight at him and shot him in the throat. You can still see the broadhead mark on the full body mount.
I am a 100% anti-neck shot type of guy. I am a fan of always taking high percentage shot choices. Will argue that a neck or a head shot are not as high of a percentage shot than a double lung/possible heart shot till I'm blue in the face. OP, nice job backing out and waiting and finding her!
I'm not an intentional neck shooter and the lungs are a bigger target anyways. I tend to be most comfortable aiming for the heart. Keep in mind I only hunt from the ground. I've put two through the heart dissected and confirmed. Two double lungs. And one through the neck and double lungs. All pass throughs. The neck was kinda a bonus on that one. The neck does have a pretty good chance at putting an animal down fast in three ways though.
yeah...it was a doe I believe. Possibly Clinton? Not sure though. Given the opportunity, my old man will always shoot for the neck with a rifle. With a bow, he won't take that shot at all. It's one thing he did hammer home over the years. One of the bad things about a neck shot with a broadhead is the bloodwork is packed in there so close together in a neck, that if you don't get a pass through all the deer's movement and jostling around can cause the b-head to work its way into a major vein/artery minutes, hours, days, even weeks after the initial shot. So, that whole "if she's still upright after 100 yards" statement doesn't necessarily hold true. If the deer has a long relatively open area to run across after the shot, don't give up just because you don't find blood in the first 50-100 yards. If there's not much blood right away....find the first thick spot the deer ran into and check to see if banging the arrow into the brush didn't cause the b-head to cut into the veins at that point. From there on, its likely to be a bloodbath. *see this story for a real life example of how little the margin of error is on a neck shot between 'No harm, No foul' vs. 'Near Instant Death' : Sun Advocate - Bowhunt accident nearly fatal for Price man - August 20, 2013
What? I would not use any setup that would not produce a pass through on a deer's neck. A couple of different guys in this thread not only got a pass-through on the neck, but the arrow went on to pass clear through the body also. Any decent set-up should easily blow cleanly through the largest deer neck if it does not hit spine.
100% agreed! Some set ups will even blast through shoulders...let alone neck. Me personally, will never take a neck shot...much smaller area of critical killing potential vs wounding or slow death potential in my honest opinion.
