Shot placement - head & neck shots

Very good information that all new hunters should be aware of. Best wishes from New Zealand.

Solid information!

If you butcher deer or any game you catch alive and trace the neck veins with your fingers get a feel of where it runs how shallow or deep you can actually glimpse the pulse of it where it's ripe for a shot through your scope. Any large game will lose brain blood pressure and drop in it's tracks. 2 benefits you get from that is draining of blood and lymphatic fluid and te animal literally passes out. Saving harvest of organs. I crossbow hunt with heavy arrows or bolts but still will go for the soft spots lower neck close to shoulder is what I go for at perfect side angle so I can nail both arteries if I can. Not easy to be silent using a high power crossbow at that but I got tricks for it and they work. Takes patience and practice for sure but I got shots through from a bikes saddle coming up on a grazing deer from down wind and it went into shock so fast it didn't move even an inch from where it stood. Perfect harvest of clean organs and very clean none gamy meat; but i had to run over and deliver a quick slay cut making sure it bled out fully. Worth the training and patience taking that shot in my book.

One shot, done.

You say that heart/lung is better yet the head/neck shots dropped instantly and the heart/lung all ran a bit...

Thanks

Totally disagree with this. When I shoot an animal, the only place that I want him to go is down. The opinion of the neck shot is lacking some important information. In the body of a mammal, there are 5 critical systems, that if critically injured result in almost instant death...and certainly cause an animal to immediately drop in its tracks....and 3 of them are located in the neck and are nearly impossible to miss all 3 with a high powered rifle. It is also the reason, most predators attack the throat. These 3 systems and how they are found in the neck are as follows: skeletal system (vertebra)....nervous system (spinal cord)...and circulatory system (jugular vein). It is virtually impossible to shoot an animal in the neck with a high powered rifle and not hit one or more of these systems. If a neck shot does not present itself, or for some reason I am not comfortable taking it, the high shoulder shot which penetrates both lungs is equally affective and preferable to a heart shot....always.

What about the new craze. Long range hunting.

This is just a classic example of hunting outside of skill set. If you can't get close enough to take an ethical shot regardless of placement, you're wrong.

Them shorts though 🤔

what language is this dude talking????it's quite similar to english...