Deer shot placement, what is your favourite and why.

Boiler room.
Folks whom claim head shots are 'Nimrod wanna be's' IMO
Sorta like men whom brag about their ###ual conquests... pretty transparent that they are tryna impress.
Me...Zero Fox Given. Don't like me or are not impressed... I'll still sleep good tonight. Because it just doesn't matter to me if I get invited to your Birthday party or not.
I'll take a deer in the most humane way possible...that's Boiler Room IMO
 
tokguy said:
Boiler room.
Folks whom claim head shots are 'Nimrod wanna be's' IMO
Sorta like men whom brag about their ###ual conquests... pretty transparent that they are tryna impress.
Me...Zero Fox Given. Don't like me or are not impressed... I'll still sleep good tonight. Because it just doesn't matter to me if I get invited to your Birthday party or not.
I'll take a deer in the most humane way possible...that's Boiler Room IMO
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thanks for the kind words
 
I prefer behind the shoulder double lung shot. Among the hunters I know, neck shots seem to be popular, but my family and I really enjoy slow cooking the neck and making 'pulled deer neck sandwiches',
 
This. Always had great luck and experiences with a high neck shot, especially when. Facing head on. The throat patch makes a great slug target.

remyltr said:
head or neck shot for me
less meat spoiled

and it also depends on how the animal present itself,sometimes the lung shot has to be taken
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Daver_II said:
Double lung for me, But Buying and carrying many hunting guns, All my deer so far have been crossbow.

those mechanical broadheads are pretty vicious.
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I Made myself a Liar.

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rpg73 said:
I prefer behind the shoulder double lung shot. Among the hunters I know, neck shots seem to be popular, but my family and I really enjoy slow cooking the neck and making 'pulled deer neck sandwiches',
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Agreed on neck meat, we usually put it in the pressure cooker and make venison split pea soup out of it or something similar. Or I just add all the neck meat to the grind pile, usually a lot more neck meat than rib meat so one more reason to shoot for the vitals. To each their own though.
 
I've only got one this far but I did 2 ribs behind the shoulder. 2" exit hole with essentially no waste - I'm making tacos out of my neck!

I did lose 1/4 of the liver though, but I will admit my shot was a little further back then I had intended. The stuff that didn't look like a sponge tastes great so far and the heart just finished pickling.
 
When the animal is broadside, I wait for the near leg to step forwards and line up low and behind the elbow for a clean shot on the heart and top of the lungs. If it is facing me, high on the neck, between the chin and top of the neck patch. If bedded and extremely relaxed, dozing or chewing their cud, just a bit higher on the neck to shatter the brain stem.
 
Lungs or nothing. While I am very confident that I could slap a deer upside the head with easy out to 600+ yards I would never do it. When taking an animals life its all about ethics. I know 100% that when I drive a freedom seed through a deer's lungs its game over. Lung shots also provide a very large margin of error in the event things don't go according to plan. Headshots provide very little and IMO are unethical.
 
KodiakHntr said:
All the important stuff is between the front legs. Depending on the angle, I’m almost always trying to break the offside shoulder, doesn’t much matter what is in the way to get there. If the angle coming or going is really severe, the important part is driving a bullet through the stuff between the front legs.
I couldn’t care less if a shoulder (or two) has some meat loss.

That said, I’ll always take the shot presented that will result in a fast death.
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This!

I was taught 50 years ago to visualize the heart as a football hanging between the front legs. The idea is to put a bullet in the top of the football regardless what angle the animal is from the shooter. High-heart/low lungs and the animal seldom goes more than 10 or 15 yards.
 
JJ-65 said:
Ear hole. Note the lack of blood……
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Looks like it's heart was beating just fine too, for awhile. The heart is basically controlled by the cardiac plexis, (which in a scientific explanation that I just made up ;) ) is a ####load of nerves that practically have a mind of their own. There's a few of them; which explain why we don't have to think about making our heart beat, or remember to breath, or why a chicken with his head cut off bleeds and jumps around (like a chicken with his head cut off) or why many animals that dropped like the earth got jerked out from under them did just that.
 
More than one way to skin a cat, and more than one way to humanely kill an animal.

Any man who is concerned with an animal not suffering, is a good man in my books.
 
I always was a heart lungs guy, but the last 2 years the shot presented was shoulder or nothing. Both times resulted in DOA on the spot. Last years was a 250 grain Barnes. There was damage to both shoulders. This year, quartering too, 80 grain TTSX and it certainly broke the shoulder but damage was not terrible but death was instant. I am becoming a fan. Instant death and no tracking. I’m good with that!
 
Daver_II said:
I Made myself a Liar.

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But as an update, the browing BXP projectile from my venerable 30-30 lodged firmly in his spine. A perfect deer defense round with less than zero over-penetration.

On a serious note I wouldn't make a habit of neck shooting out of meal loss concerns. But in this case I am very happy as the meat loss was maybe the size of his heart... which due to not shooting boiler room made a nice tastey dinner.
 
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