the first 20 years of my hunting life i never heard or saw anyone shoot a deer anywhere but the neck or head. then the magazine gurus started pimping the heart lung shot as the only way a deer/elk/wooly mammoth could be killed. just about the time the spray and pray doctrine came to be.
i would venture over the last 60 years of hunting 60% of my shots on deer/elk/bear have been neck or head. i have seen them just stunned by this though. a insurance shot is so small of an expenditure i always pay the premium. have lost 1 deer in my lifetime. .257 ABC bullet through the shoulders on a buck.
drilled a .257 hole through and through. saw him a couple months later with w twin white spots of hair. picked up those target loads off the shelf in the dark that day.

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