I hear that neck shots on deer are UNETHICAL?

[fabsroman]

Rattus,

My first sentence in the post above was a quote from your first post, but I just made the last word, OCCASION, capitalized for emphasis. So, calling me out on it is kind of hilarious, since it was your words and not mine. By the way, it is the second sentence after the picture in your initial post.

I have never seen a neck shot taken and I have never taken a neck shot, so I really don't have much opinion on the matter. However, I can see people missing the spinal column in a deer's neck pretty easily. I have hit a deer in the spinal column on top of its back, and that deer dropped like a sack of potatoes. That was the first deer I killed and the shot was at 15 yards, if that far. I wasn't trying for the spinal column, but that is where the bullet entered as it split in two, one half piercing the deer's heart and the other half piercing one of the lungs.

Me, I'm still going to stick with the lung shot because I know I can make it.

In the end, a shot to the spinal column is probably the most humane shot possible, but something tells me that most hunters out there cannot consistently make that shot.