djenkins0992
Senior Member
This is why I don't bow hunt. I have heard to many stories of such from people throwing sticks at deer.
"Head shots with guns can have same effects..... just alot messier. I hope other inexperienced hunters learn from this."
"If it is real, I do hope it was an accident. My son and I just had this discussion about head/neck shots last weekend. There is just too much stuff in the head/neck that doesn't mean a thing - except ugly - to shoot there gun or bow."
"Head shots with guns can have same effects..... just alot messier. I hope other inexperienced hunters learn from this."
Gentlemen,
There is a reason why cows and pigs are shot between the eyes when ready to be butchered. There is a reason why chickens heads are cut off when they are ready to meet the colonel. That reason is because a head shot is the MOST EFFECTIVE shot placement there is period. No body wants to be blood trailing farm animals around the barn yard. Im not condoning shooting head shots with bows because arrows have no "ballistics", its straight in and straight out. What you see here can happen very rarely!
However NOBODY in there right mind should believe that more deer are lost due to slightly misplaced head and neck shots than heart shots.
Everything in the neck is vital! how about the Juggalar along with tons of other blood vessells? how about the Spinal column? how about the spinal cord? how about the wind pipe? Any of which when hit results in finding the deer where it was standing when the trigger was pulled.
As far as the head goes. I for one don't think this picture is real but it certainly can happen. However, the body simply cannot function without the brain!!!
I would bet all the money in the world that more deer are lost to slightly misplaced Heart and lung area shots than neck and head shots. How many times have I trailed deer for someone for miles finding stomach contents from where they shot two far back and never find the deer? Howmany times has someone sipmly not been able to find a deer after it ran 100 or so yards after a well placed shot due to lack of skill in blood trailing? this happens too many times to count.
When I pull the trigger the deer falls where it was standing whether I shot him in the neck or the head!!! In Fifteen years of hunting (since I started using a 22-250 and needed careful shot placement) i have never had a deer run or lost one. And thats ALOT of deer!
So don't call people who gun hunt and make neck or head shots irresponsible and inexperienced...
Bow hunters, maybe so, but thats only due to the fact that arrows don't expand like a hollow point. and I would still bet that for every deer shot in the head with a bow five are lost due to gut shots or bieng shot to low.
Good day.
"Head shots with guns can have same effects..... just alot messier. I hope other inexperienced hunters learn from this."
"If it is real, I do hope it was an accident. My son and I just had this discussion about head/neck shots last weekend. There is just too much stuff in the head/neck that doesn't mean a thing - except ugly - to shoot there gun or bow."
"Head shots with guns can have same effects..... just alot messier. I hope other inexperienced hunters learn from this."
Gentlemen,
There is a reason why cows and pigs are shot between the eyes when ready to be butchered. There is a reason why chickens heads are cut off when they are ready to meet the colonel. That reason is because a head shot is the MOST EFFECTIVE shot placement there is period. No body wants to be blood trailing farm animals around the barn yard. Im not condoning shooting head shots with bows because arrows have no "ballistics", its straight in and straight out. What you see here can happen very rarely!
However NOBODY in there right mind should believe that more deer are lost due to slightly misplaced head and neck shots than heart shots.
Everything in the neck is vital! how about the Juggalar along with tons of other blood vessells? how about the Spinal column? how about the spinal cord? how about the wind pipe? Any of which when hit results in finding the deer where it was standing when the trigger was pulled.
As far as the head goes. I for one don't think this picture is real but it certainly can happen. However, the body simply cannot function without the brain!!!
I would bet all the money in the world that more deer are lost to slightly misplaced Heart and lung area shots than neck and head shots. How many times have I trailed deer for someone for miles finding stomach contents from where they shot two far back and never find the deer? Howmany times has someone sipmly not been able to find a deer after it ran 100 or so yards after a well placed shot due to lack of skill in blood trailing? this happens too many times to count.
When I pull the trigger the deer falls where it was standing whether I shot him in the neck or the head!!! In Fifteen years of hunting (since I started using a 22-250 and needed careful shot placement) i have never had a deer run or lost one. And thats ALOT of deer!
So don't call people who gun hunt and make neck or head shots irresponsible and inexperienced...
Bow hunters, maybe so, but thats only due to the fact that arrows don't expand like a hollow point. and I would still bet that for every deer shot in the head with a bow five are lost due to gut shots or bieng shot to low.
Good day.
The ONLY REASON your misguided argument holds any water at all is that THANKFULLY shooters like you are few and far between this reducing the number of mutilated marginal hits on deer heads.
We have a responsibility to the animals we hunt....Take the highest percentage shot we can IN THE VITALS and exhaust ourselves in our efforts to recover said animals...Period....The End.
Bruz
I dissagree with you 100% a head shot is lethal but marginal!!!
Ahhhhhh.....a refreshing new topic from the past....
Ahhhhhh.....a refreshing new topic from the past....