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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 1339315" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I think you should stick with the boiler room shot. I too am not a fan of head or neck shots. I have seen both go wrong as well as encountering an animal running around with the bottom jaw hanging. Had a buddy take a nice white tail with a head shot. Went in one eye and out the other and the buck ran around in circles until the could get another in him. My dad used to neck shoot all the time until he shot a mulie doe in the neck and trailed her for miles until he finally got her. She had a hole through the bottom side of her neck and was breathing out of the hole like a tracheotomy. I head shot a buck once and dropped him on the spot. Went to recover him and grabbed his front leg to pull him up out of a tree well and he started waking up. Had to quickly shoot him again. I had hit him between the eye and the antler. All it did was go through his sinus cavity. Shot an antelope when I was a kid in the neck. Went to recover him and when we got there he started trying to get up. Dad was quick and stepped on his horn and cut his throat. That bullet just creased the top of his neck.</p><p></p><p>Keep shooting the boiler room and expect 80-100 yards of tracking. Sometimes, even often they will go down much quicker.</p><p></p><p>Good hunting,</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 1339315, member: 7999"] I think you should stick with the boiler room shot. I too am not a fan of head or neck shots. I have seen both go wrong as well as encountering an animal running around with the bottom jaw hanging. Had a buddy take a nice white tail with a head shot. Went in one eye and out the other and the buck ran around in circles until the could get another in him. My dad used to neck shoot all the time until he shot a mulie doe in the neck and trailed her for miles until he finally got her. She had a hole through the bottom side of her neck and was breathing out of the hole like a tracheotomy. I head shot a buck once and dropped him on the spot. Went to recover him and grabbed his front leg to pull him up out of a tree well and he started waking up. Had to quickly shoot him again. I had hit him between the eye and the antler. All it did was go through his sinus cavity. Shot an antelope when I was a kid in the neck. Went to recover him and when we got there he started trying to get up. Dad was quick and stepped on his horn and cut his throat. That bullet just creased the top of his neck. Keep shooting the boiler room and expect 80-100 yards of tracking. Sometimes, even often they will go down much quicker. Good hunting, Steve [/QUOTE]
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