Come on! All you guys recommending head shots are giving horrible advice. Yes a brain shot will definitely drop them where they stand the absolute best shot to anchor a deer is a broadside shot high shoulder. Traveling with the PGC after deer season, especially along creeks, we've found deer that were shot in the head, missing the brain and had the lower jaw blown off or just hanging leaving the animal to die a horrible death not being able to eat or drink. But with the high shoulder shot you will damage some meat possibly the whole shoulder but that shot will break the shoulder and if you know deer anatomy will also wreck havoc with the spine and nervous system causing a DRT deer.
A heart shot is definitely lethal but the deer can run upwards of 100 yards. Probably far enough to run onto the neighboring property.
Check out the attachment and see where I put the red X. A shot there will drop a deer where it stands breaking the shoulder and the spine and also taking out the lungs. Now you have to shoot high shoulder. If you aim mid-chest you'll only hit lungs. Deadly but possibly not DRT.
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