How is a Neck Shot placed?

[bearmgc]

Pronghorn are not susceptible to CWD. Sadly though, they recently found a moose infected with CWD in Wyoming.

 

[KMBRTAC45]

I've been deer hunting for about 20 years. I was taught by my stepdad to shoot neck shots, never missed or had to chase my deer, DRT! The only family member who misses is my stepbrother, but when a buck comes in he gets buck fever and shakes like a palm tree in a hurrican .

Oh yeah, I use a Marlin 336sc 30-30Win. I hunt in the deep woods of the U.P. of Michigan so long shots don't need to be made(75-150 yards).

 

[Smokey Joe]

CWD details

Bearmgc--Thx for info on Pronghorn. Where'd you get the info? I hadn't thought pronghorns would be susceptible to CWD, because they are not in the deer family--i.e. not closely related to deer. But haven't found an authoritative statement to that effect.

Moose and elk, however, ARE in the deer family, hence it is not surprising (tho' unfortunate!) that they would be found to have CWD. Likewise any other critters that have branching, annually shed antlers. Sika deer and red stags come to mind--they'd pick up CWD if it was in their area.

 

[killzone]

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[Thin Black Line]

Pronghorn are not susceptible to CWD.

Source please. If cows, deer, even squirrels, can have this, why not them?
It might be a matter that they haven't been infected yet as opposed to
actually being "not susceptible." Big difference.

 

[steveracer]

Always taken neck shots.

I was taught to shoot them there. When I hunt with a single shot rifle, I want the only round I have readily available to kill him NOW. The neck has done that for me for about 16 years.

 

[bigcim]

what do you guys do when you paralyze one to finally kill it

 

[Vern Humphrey]

what do you guys do when you paralyze one to finally kill it

It's been my experience that a hit in the Central Nerverous System (CNS) -- that is brain and spine -- is usually fatal. Barring that, the coup de grace is administed with a hunting knife, usually by cutting the throat.

 

[Thin Black Line]

what do you guys do when you paralyze one to finally kill it

Try a shot further up on the neck with a 12g slug. The shock alone from
a 1+ oz hunk of lead passing through the flesh will cause blood to stop
flowing to the brain if it actually doesn't smash the upper spinal cord and
resonate along the medulla oblongata halting all autonomic function. Either
way, don't fret, it's dead.

You're more likely to see a gut-shot deer trying to scramble around with
paralyzed rear legs. Go for a neck shot and not a knife if you want to
come home with all your teeth.

 

[steveracer]

I was just gonna say that!

well, it was gonna sound like this: "Try a heavy bullet under the back of the jaw, about 1/4 down the neck, and you'll either have a spectacularly dead deer, or you'll miss altogether. More humane either way."
You get the picture.

 

[bigcim]

what yardage are we talking here i hunt the mojave seeing a deer 300+ is typical

 

[Art Eatman]

Anything much beyond 100 to 150 yards, I'll not take a shot at the neck, but at the boiler room...

, Art

 

[bigcim]

al right so im not crazy feeling uncomfortable shooting a neck shot at 300

 

[Poppy270]

Never mind the neck,go for the lungs,big target,won't go far.

 

[Art Eatman]

bigcim, maybe one way to look at it is to figure out your limit on hitting a two-inch POINT. For a neck shot, that point doesn't allow much leeway. On a chest shot, you can (in your imagination) move that point around some three or four inches and still be plenty good enough for a clean kill.

I like the neck shot, distance and personal confidence permitting, because I can then field dress the silly thing without getting so messy and bloody. If I bust Bambi in the boiler room, there's all that blood as soon as I cut the diaphragm. Yuck. Hey, I'm for neat and clean at all times...

Art

 

[KMBRTAC45]

well, it was gonna sound like this: "Try a heavy bullet under the back of the jaw, about 1/4 down the neck, and you'll either have a spectacularly dead deer, or you'll miss altogether. More humane either way."
You get the picture

That reminds me of the deer I shot 3 yrs ago. I was just pulling the trigger and the deer took a step back, I ended up hitting right behind the jaw bone on the right side and it came out the left eye. Needless to say the deer wen't nowhere but down.

 

[BIGJACK]

Many years ago when I was somewhat of a meat hunter and "one of" and usually the only one hunting on Giles Island accross the Mississippi River from Natchez, ms (now a nationally renouned hunting reserve) I shot lung shots only, with a 30-06. The deer would run about 75 yards leaving a good blood trail. However, when I came home from the military there were several people hunting there, including a dog hunting group, and if you let one run 75 yards it was a good bet that somebody else would be looking at him when you got there. Some times these renegades would shoot up in the air or into the ground and claim to have shot the deer.
The results were that I started shooting neck and head shots if possible . Remember back in those days we stalked um, as "tipped around in the woods hoping to catch um either laying down or feeding," However, most shots were at deer jumped from the bed, and in the arse.