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Post by gulfcoasthunter on Aug 17, 2008 12:42:23 GMT -5
Last year I had a nice 9pt at 22yrds and didn't take the shot because the only shot I had was a neck shot. I have been practicing and am confident I can put the arrow right into the white throat patch out to 30 yards. Would you take this shot if it was the only shot presented to you.
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Post by BlueNorther on Aug 17, 2008 15:46:09 GMT -5
Me personally,no.I think that it's a low percentage shot.I've seen 3 neck shots on deer,all by the same guy.One was an instant kill,the other 2 were wounded deer with only one recovered.
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Post by NitroHunter on Aug 17, 2008 18:39:53 GMT -5
I would probably pass on it myself, but a "perfect" shot would drop one.
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Post by thunderstorm on Aug 18, 2008 8:12:35 GMT -5
NO!!! Good decision. The gut-wrenching feel after a bad shot is horrific.
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Post by deerslayer11 on Aug 18, 2008 9:47:25 GMT -5
I tried it several years back. 8yds, looking up eating acorns off a low hanging pin oak branch. Was going to shoot it in the throat under its chin and possibly get 1 lung if it penetrated. Damn spring hung up in my thumb release... After I got the spring pushed back in with my truck key ( I have no idea how he didnt see me freaking up in the tree...) he was broadside at 25yds...
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Post by mr4pt on Aug 18, 2008 12:49:04 GMT -5
From the voice of experience....DON'T
I shot two different deer in the neck in one year, I thought I was Billy Badass with a bow. The first was a small doe, she lived because I saw her two days later with a bloody neck but otherwise no ill effects. She may have died from infection, like TS said, I was sick.
The second was only a few weeks later on a spike. He bedded down right below me for over an hour. I finally talked myself into shooting him in the neck. I plugged him, actually pinning his neck to the ground for a second. He hopped up and ran up the hill with the arrow sticking out both sides of his neck, never to be seen again. You would think that there would have been a ton of blood but there was very little blood on either deer. I watch the spike run off for at least 90 yds. We looked for several hours for each deer and never had the feeling we would find them.
Don't do it.
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Post by Bucktales on Aug 18, 2008 22:49:11 GMT -5
I agree, not a good shot. With a rifle, its deadly, due to lots of shock. With a bow, you dont get that shock. I did get a deer in the neck one time, purely by accident. It ducked to run, and I hit it right through the spinal cord. Not an intentional shot, but it worked that time. There's too many opportunities for higher percentage shots to take an "ify" shot. I would rather let a deer get away than have to be sick about a poor shot.
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