Neck shots

[buckfvr]

Right there.

@ 3:00

[buckfvr]

The shot placement on a deer facing you should be on the vertical plain from the point the vertical and horizontal plains intersect to the upper portion of the vertical line just below the white patch. As stated by others, the margin for error on a neck shot is much smaller than a broadside shot. I learned to hunt only taking neck shots and if you hit your target, deer expire instantaneously and don’t get the adrenaline shot, which can lead to a strong game flavor in the meat. But your target is about the size of a cucumber. Where as a broadside shot gives you a target the size of a basketball. If it is a relatively close shot, a straight on shot is fine to take a neck shot, but any distance  I would wait for broadside shot.

Pass on that dink.

[Scuffy]

The vertical kill zone stretches from just below the chin to the base of the neck, but the horizontal zone is only 2.5-3” wide. Where the two lines intersect would be the ideal shot placement. That dink will eat good.

[jackelope]

Right there.

@ 3:00

I agree, but could only be so precise with the tip of my thumb lol.
But there again, that’s the beauty of that shot. There’s wiggle room if something happens. You flinch and pull the shot, the deer flinches, whatever. There’s room for error.

[greenhead_killer]

if youre gonna take a frontal shot, why not just aim a bit lower blowing lungs/heart/everything else out? i dont like neck shots because of the reasons others have stated, too much potential for shot error, but if someone else is comfortable, im not going to judge them for that . i shot my buck this year at 20 yards running at me and shot just in the crease of the neck and shoulder. dead 60 yards later.

[Scuffy]

It depends on the angle, but if you are on the same plain as the deer and you aim lower for the heart and lungs, you run the risk of a pass through that goes through the guts.

[Humptulips]

Those pictures are really nice but at least where I hunt there is brush and trees and often I am shooting down narrow corridors. Behind the shoulder every time but sometimes that shot ain't there and you take what you are given. Sometimes it is a neck or head shot or it's gone.

[tgomez]

 If he's facing you, shoot for where the base of the neck meets the shoulders/body. You will break the spine and it will drop like a sack of potatoes.