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Anchoring game. Why high shoulder over neck shots?
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<blockquote data-quote="osok-1k" data-source="post: 2935294" data-attributes="member: 106259"><p>Well I may need to clarify and contribute to the woes of a misplaced neck shot, I've lost three deer I shot in the neck and spent hours tracking them. About fifteen years ago I was in a 12 foot lean to stand near a large bedding area, light rain in December in Arkansas, Bradley County. I'm quietly looking at the woodline along an old logging road when I spot this very short snout stick out of the brush. He looks around and then steps out into the middle of the about fifty yards away. One of the largest bucks I've seen in Arkansas. I thought "how could I miss?" so I shot him in the neck with my 280 Remington and he went down. I relaxed for a few minutes, took a breath and looked up to find him crawling into the brush on my side of the road, he rolled over and his feet were sticking up (never seen that before) and not moving. I began to gather my gear, tied my rifle to the rope to lower it and about halfway down he crawled back out into the road with his tongue hanging out and before I could pull my rifle back into the stand and load a round he was gone. There was very little blood on the road and as I began to track I found blood on some leaves but the rain was washing it away. A very experienced friend who was in the area came to help, we tracked for two hours (until dark) and never found any more blood or the deer. I can only surmise the my shot went between the spine and esophagus, missed the carotid and other than the initial shock he survived. We checked for buzzards and continued to check the area for several days and found nothing. A humbling experience for sure and I was angry at myself for not following my own rules on waiting and being ready for one to recover from the initial shock of being shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="osok-1k, post: 2935294, member: 106259"] Well I may need to clarify and contribute to the woes of a misplaced neck shot, I've lost three deer I shot in the neck and spent hours tracking them. About fifteen years ago I was in a 12 foot lean to stand near a large bedding area, light rain in December in Arkansas, Bradley County. I'm quietly looking at the woodline along an old logging road when I spot this very short snout stick out of the brush. He looks around and then steps out into the middle of the about fifty yards away. One of the largest bucks I've seen in Arkansas. I thought "how could I miss?" so I shot him in the neck with my 280 Remington and he went down. I relaxed for a few minutes, took a breath and looked up to find him crawling into the brush on my side of the road, he rolled over and his feet were sticking up (never seen that before) and not moving. I began to gather my gear, tied my rifle to the rope to lower it and about halfway down he crawled back out into the road with his tongue hanging out and before I could pull my rifle back into the stand and load a round he was gone. There was very little blood on the road and as I began to track I found blood on some leaves but the rain was washing it away. A very experienced friend who was in the area came to help, we tracked for two hours (until dark) and never found any more blood or the deer. I can only surmise the my shot went between the spine and esophagus, missed the carotid and other than the initial shock he survived. We checked for buzzards and continued to check the area for several days and found nothing. A humbling experience for sure and I was angry at myself for not following my own rules on waiting and being ready for one to recover from the initial shock of being shot. [/QUOTE]
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