Posted: 10/12/2009 4:31:33 PM EDT
| New to bow hunting and was wondering if you can neck shoot deer and get the same results? Thanks for the help guys |
| Works in theroy, but not a good idea. Miss the spine and/or jugular vain (both small targets) and you end up with a lost and/or wounded animal. Broadhead arrows are most effective in a heart/lung shot that produces massive blood loss causing quick death. IMHO the best idea for the average shooter is to go for the standard heart/lung target. |
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Please don't.
While it could potentially be effective, I personally feel it's a very risky and unethical shot. Go for the double lungs. At least that way if you are off a bit you have a far better margin of error for a vital shot than wounding on a target as small as the neck. |
| Stick to the vitals. Neck shot is not a good Idea. Be patient with your shot. You owe it to the animal to make the kill as clean and fast as possible. Being new to bow hunting I strongly recommend you practice and be prepared to shoot quartering away and toward shots as well as shots from elevated angle such as treestands and be able to visualize where the arrow will exit the animal. This will give you a good idea as to what vitals you will hit as the arrow travels through the animal. In some situations you may not get a pass through. Knowing the anatomy and being patient with you shot will always pay off. The true test of a hunter is to pass on a animal, even a trophy because the shot wasn't right. It happens, that's hunting! Enjoy hunting with you bow and good luck. Shoot Straight!! |
| not good, although the first and only deer ive shot this year with my bow was quarted towards and looking up at me, but it was only 10 yards, so i shot it down through the neck and it came out under the opposite front leg, if it hadnt clipped the artery in the neck i dont know what would have happened, but i cut that main artery and it still ran 80 yards |
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<snip> and toward shots <snip> QT, I respectfully have to disagree with this as well. A bow shot with a deer facing your is one of the worse shots you can take with an arrow IMHO. Quartering away however, you are absolutely correct is one of the best possible scenarios. |
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<snip> and toward shots <snip> QT, I respectfully have to disagree with this as well. A bow shot with a deer facing your is one of the worse shots you can take with an arrow IMHO. Quartering away however, you are absolutely correct is one of the best possible scenarios. That reads,"Quartering away and towards shots" as in "quartering towards". Not facing me. I also agree that is one of the worst shots you can take. I have however become pretty proficient at quartering towards shots and as I stated "know where the arrow will exit the animal". A well placed shot as the deer is almost perpendicular to you (quartering towards) will most likely end up exiting through the back of the opposite lung. I have made this shot several times from both treestands and on the ground. I wish every shot was quartering away at 30yds, but I can't seem to get the deer to cooperate. |
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"know where the arrow will exit the animal". I'll agree that we differ in opinion, I'm just not comfortable with taking a shot at any angle towards me, but if you are and have proved successful, good deal. I positively agree on the quoted statement though. I pay almost more attention to that than where it's going in. |