320yd neck shot

[Art Eatman]

Hitting low like that leaves a lot of neck meat for grinding up for deerburger. Makes some of the world's best spaghetti sauce. I always respect folks who plan ahead to minimize waste.

 

[tinygnat219]

I have seen too many deer missing lower jaws or literally starving to death from torn out throats to consider a head / neck shot to be humane.

 

[Matrix187]

I got my 4 point (4 spikes on each side) whitetail buck this season in Montana. I used a 7x57 Mauser Ruger M77 /w 140 gr soft points, and it did very minor damage compared to that. I shot it from about 75 yards away is all.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

Back when my mom hunted, she used a 243. She always took neck shots, never had one get away wounded.

I myself prefer the white spot and use a 30-06 with 165 core-lockts.

The exit wound you show is pretty impressive. That opened up pretty good VS. most of the ones I've shot/seen shot with the core lockt slug.(But all of them have been in a 308 or '06.)

Art-

A neck roast is an excellent meal. Just cook 'er slow.

 

[~z]

Nicely done!

 

[Funderb]

great take!

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Nice buck, great shot, great bullet performance, and most all, good boy!

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

nice

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

I told you those cheap core lokts wern't any good. See what it got your son?

Nice buck and great shooting.

 

[d2wing]

Nice deer guys. I strongly support mountainwalk. I've shot many deer and hunted with other hunters and tracked lots of deer. A heart or lung shot is sure and quick death. A neck or head shot sometimes results in a non lethal wound. I do see the point about a miss, but the lungs are a much bigger target. If you can make a drt neck shot more power to you.

 

[xm21]

The only deer I have ever neck shot fell right there and slid about 5 feet downhill before it was halted by a tree.I took the neck shot because the head and neck was all I could see and he knew something was wrong and looked like he was about to run.The deer was exactly 18 steps from the base of the tree I was sitting in,I was on a homemade ladder stand that was about 10 feet high.The place I was on is only five acres and my nieces and another house were very close by so I was using a 20 gauge shotgun with a mod choke and 5/8th ounce Rem slugger hollow point rifled slug.I mention the ammo because the slug did not hit the vertabrae and did not come out the other side,and when I skinned and butchered it the meat in the neck area was pretty much ruined and the largest pieces I found of the slug were about BB size.That sure is a nice deer your son killed thanks for showing us the picture.

 

[caribou]

If you can make the shot, do it.
Brainers and neck busters are "Dead Right There"

I posted some vids of such in the "% Bang /flops" thread.

Never had a head shot get away, although a few neckshots were stunned and then walked untill gushed out, never more than 50 yards.

 

[ilovebubbles]

neck shots yes,no..........I'll shoot were I damb well please!, HAVE A NICE DAY

 

[El General]

That is a beautiful Hill Country 10 point.

 

[homers]

I think most people who hit a neck at 250+ were probably aiming for the chest, missed their mark and got lucky. My uncle always loved to tell his story about the deer he shot "right behind the ear". It was only years later after I grew up that I realized he shot at the chest and got lucky to hit the head.

 

[beretta16]

He can move enough to seriously screw up either shot...I'd rather have a complete miss than a gut shot...that was the point Shawnee was making earlier.

Well how about a jaw shot where they slowly starve?

If you aim just behind the front shoulder you've got a foot behind you of lungs to hit, in front is a couple inches of heart. A deer's body moves WAY less than a head or neck. Deer rarely back up, so if it is going to move chances are its body will make it ~6" forward in .6 seconds at a normal pace leaving you with a double lung shot most likely (dead in less than 100 yards or DRT often times)