whitetail shot placement

[Jon3830]

I used to favor high shoulder shots but have not done it in years, if I am taking a doe I go for the head.

 

[swampratt]

I have shot them in many places with many different bullets.
My fastest kills are 55v-max or other quick expanding bullet to the neck.

Heart shots they run 90% of the time for me.

I have only done 1 head shot and it removed the top of the skull and the deer was still alive but could not move it's body just it's eyes.
So Sad.

I have shot many critters behind the ear in towards the skull and that drops them like a brick.

 

[dennishoddy]

Don’t do head shots as I saw one with the lower jaw shot off that was starving to death.
Double lung or upper shoulder depending on the situation.

 

[GlockPride]

Neck shots. I wonder why more hunters don’t use it. It’s either a quick CNS kill or a clean miss.

 

[FlyGuyGSP]

Texas heart shot.

 

[dennishoddy]

Texas heart shot.

I got lucky and got one with a running shot, but don’t recommend it.
The buck went down after being shot. As I walked up to it, the deer jumped up and stumbled across an open wheat field.
Sat down, got a good sight pic and pulled the trigger.
He went down with minimal meat loss.

 

[retrieverman]

I’ve shot deer in the head, neck, high shoulder, lungs, heart, and the guts (accidentally). My preferred is a heart/lung shot.

 

[Okie4570]

High shoulder whenever possible.

 

[turkeyrun]

Depends on angle, distance, rest, movement, temp, humidity, phase of moon, time of the month, ....

When things are perfect, neck shot. Not ideal, but good shot possible; heart lung.

I shot a doe, quartering away, with a 7mag, 140 gr HP. Hit left side, last rib, through heart, exited between right shoulder and base of neck. She ran 100 yards like it was a clean miss.

When I opened her up, chest was full of goo. Everything obliterated.

Never had a neck shot take a signal step.

 

[jackary]

I have always aimed just behind shoulder for heart and lung shots I have only had one run more than 10 yards and it was because I rushed the shot and hit further back on the lungs.