kyhayman said: (quoted from post at 14:38:11 09/15/08) I disagree, anyone who would miss the head and hit the lower jaw is just as liable to miss the shoulder and gut shoot one. Shooting a jaw off sounds like an amateur who needs more practice and shooting way too big a bullet (or a slug). Thats at least 3 inches below the brain. Thats the real benefit of shooting a really fast load, 3000 plus fps, with a light hollow point. The hydraulic shock will take down anything deer size or smaller.
With that said, I cant recall but two in our group ever taking a head shot except between the eyes (thats my dads favorite shot). Both of those were at the base of the ear. Its not a shot I personally like, I want the dense tissue about 6 inches below the ear in the neck. I've been with this group since 1982, never seen a deer wounded or that moved from where he was hit on anything but a shoulder shot, and few of those move far.
Deer move their heads around all the time, could have been a bug in his ear or something that made him move his head a little between the gun going off and the bullet getting there. Entirely plausable IMO, which is why I don't shoot there... it is always moving.
I know it is with a shotgun, but my chest shot deer rarely make it 10' from where I hit them. Just like an engine, take the oil pump out of the picture and things start shutting down in a hurry.
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