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Thread: Are neck shots ethical for the average hunter

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    Quote Originally Posted by DRDUCK View Post
    All our kills are in the neck with a 22/mag. They never move more than 3 steps and are DRT. Course the longest shot is about 20yds + or -
    I have actually sat in the stand with a 22mag several times this year. All I’ve seen while carrying it have been small bucks and I’ve let them walk, I’m waiting on a doe. Some people may not agree with it but it is legal on private land and I am very confident in my ability to kill one with it. I plan to kill one with the rimfire this year and one with a pistol next year hopefully and then I’ll probably never hunt deer with either again.
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    E89D9099-6E23-47B8-9B33-F68D9EF130C9.jpgD5ED271C-6D1D-4576-8C1C-D7D015D264B9.jpgA buddy of mine got this deer on a camera this week. We are assuming it’s a neck shot gone bad - but who knows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SCswampCAT View Post
    I completely respect your opinion and I'm not trying to start a pissing match but I believe this is completely false, and like yours, this is only my opinion. If you pull of a successful "heart shot" then that deer is dead and you should not have to track it far at all.. My dad is a neck shooter. He has lost one deer that i know of when I was very young. The deer dropped and while he was climbing down the tree it stood up and ran off bleeding like a stuck pig for a while, but to never be found. I've never lost a deer that was hit in the heart and I don't think its possible to lose one if you look for it correctly.
    I’m with you. Barring swamp water (which if close to one you should be taking DRT shots anyways) a heart shot deer is going to die, and not too far away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck cutter View Post
    I have actually sat in the stand with a 22mag several times this year. All I’ve seen while carrying it have been small bucks and I’ve let them walk, I’m waiting on a doe. Some people may not agree with it but it is legal on private land and I am very confident in my ability to kill one with it. I plan to kill one with the rimfire this year and one with a pistol next year hopefully and then I’ll probably never hunt deer with either again.
    We killed 6 hogs last week with our .22 mags. Behind the shoulder and through the heart lung. 40 to 200 lb pigs. A properly placed 40 grain jacketed hollow point does incredible damage. I've killed a 7 pt with it too.

    I bought my .22 mag from TRAD.........it's a gun I'll cherish forever.
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    thats road rash
    and maybe we should discuss "gravity" in your gravity feeder....
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2thDoc View Post
    and maybe we should discuss "gravity" in your gravity feeder....
    LMAO......
    \"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunwannabe View Post
    We killed 6 hogs last week with our .22 mags. Behind the shoulder and through the heart lung. 40 to 200 lb pigs. A properly placed 40 grain jacketed hollow point does incredible damage. I've killed a 7 pt with it too.

    I bought my .22 mag from TRAD.........it's a gun I'll cherish forever.
    I 2nd you... have shot many boars with .22LR eye/ear shot, they drop on the feet.....This 1 was shot from 40 yards with .22 40gr ear shot....however, for deer, either the shoulder or heart only.
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    If one is concerned about a swamp or thicket nearby, why not just shoot high shoulder? Dead right there every time. Also larger margin for error than a neck shot and they don't run like with a heart shot.
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    I keep hearing high shoulder and I dont doubt the overall lethality of the shot but I can recall two larger bucks over the years that toted a high shoulder shot from a 150 grain 30-06 like a champ and run off to never be recovered. Both shots broadside less than 40 yards.
    I quit using core lokts after the second one ran off.

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    I shot a buck years ago high shoulder, about 60yrds. Deer dropped like a rock. I had my son about 10 with me, he said let’s go look at the deer. I said no. We waited about 20 minutes till dark, walked 250 to the truck , returned to get the deer and no deer.
    I looked for 2 hrs that night, and 5 hrs the next morning. I found one drop of blood the size of a quarter about 30 away. That was it. All I can figure is I hit the perfect spot to paralyze him temporarily with no spine / vascular damage. Damndest thing I’d seen to that point.
    I guess nothing is a sure DRT thing.

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    My guess is that your “high shoulder” is too high in the shoulder. Half way up plus a few inches and you crush both lungs and shoulders, as well as possibly disrupting some of the CNS.
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    My daughter has killed 4 deer. 3 of the 4 were heart shots DRT. The 4th was a sharper angle than she was used to and it ran 20ish yards. I'll take/choose the heart shot on most every deer.

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    "They are who we thought they were"

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    I took a shoulder shot last night, it worked. My normal is more double lung/heart. The lack of tracking on the double shoulder is quite nice though. 11 min sit was nice too.

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    I try to make sure I take a heart/lung shot when the deer is at the peak of inhaling. The increased surface area of the lungs ensures maximum chance of success.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatboy View Post
    E89D9099-6E23-47B8-9B33-F68D9EF130C9.jpgD5ED271C-6D1D-4576-8C1C-D7D015D264B9.jpgA buddy of mine got this deer on a camera this week. We are assuming it’s a neck shot gone bad - but who knows.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baggy View Post
    Not being a smart ass , serious question. How many have you attempted a heart shot on, ended up gut shot and never found?
    Wasnt taken as being a smart ass at all.. But, tbh i shoot the shoulder or behind the shoulder 99% of the time. I've been fortunate enough to not lose a deer (knock on wood) that i've hit with a bow or rifle (I have completely missed with both.) Now I am younger and haven't killed nearly as many deer as most on this site, i'm sure, but have killed my share. I honestly don't want to hit them in the heart as I like to eat the heart. But the ones I have hit in the heart have ran less than 30 yards, normally within my sight.
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    Man is merely a two legged locust, devouring wild lands, developing and prostituting wildlife and fisheries under the guise of "use of the resource" for tremendous profit and moving on. Will it ever end?

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    Are y'all seriously still bitching about which shot kills a deer deader/more dead/deadest................
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    I'll shoot over a kids head in a blind or long gun one on a turkey in a heart beat. You want to kill stuff around me you gonna earn it.

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