I totally agree with you Thar,
I was very happy to dispatch Roe Bucks through the top of the heart. quote]
The thing is a top of the heart shot drops them on the spot, it is with low heart/lung shots that you get runners. If you think you are good enough to take a neck shot then you should be able to place a high heart shot no problem and if you are not quite as good as you thought you were, well you will still have a dead deer.
Earlier this year I tracked a roe doe that had been shot by one of our syndicate member’s he hit it in the neck just missing the spine at the back, you could see the bone though the wound after we had found it. It was shot with a 150gn Norma soft point in .308 more than enough gun for roe does in most peoples opinion. It did drop on the spot but when the member moved to get out of the low box he was in, it got to it’s feet and ran. My GWP tracked it 670 yards raising it from it bed before she caught up with it. The most heart lung shot deer seem to run is 150 yards.
Thar