nchawkeye

zrex...I usually don't respond to these type posts on the grounds that I might incrimidate myself....

There is nothing wrong with a brain shot on any animal, and it's not just poachers that use it...I have killed several deer with a shot to the head with a .22...Let me point out it is perfectly legal in my state to do so and before I was a deer hunter I was a squirrel hunter and only took head shots with a .22....If you have the skills to take it, it works...

I have had 2 occasions that I remember to do the same with my .243, no problem...

I will point out, I grew up hunting and in the country...I could walk out of my back yard with my .22 and hunt...I had also seen my dad dispach hogs when we butcherd them with a .22...I am not advocating anyone else doing so, but a .22 to the brain is lethal...

barrabas74

I have killed does with head shots. I am a confident shot to a certain distance and I dont want to waste meat or worry about tracking. I understand not wanting to bust there jaw and cause them to starve to death. Many hunters miss chest shots and gut shoot deer that die a long time later as well. I feel if your confident in your shot than thats fine.

Does anyone do neck shots? Risky as well. Aim small, miss small.

Planter

I have watched enough guys at the club shooting/sighting in to know that MOST guys can't make a brain shot so that leaves you with a deer shot thru the jaw or somewhere equally as painful and just as ineffective.

Why bother when there is so much room for error. Stick with a nice double lung..

ipscshooter

Rants like that often result from the effects of the "little green monster..."

sjsfire

Anyone wanting to take a head shot have at it. Do I agree with it? No,I choose not to. I'll either drop them with a high shoulder shot or a heart/lung shot.

DannyD

Good question Zrex,
It may just come down to the fact that many hunters plain just don't care much about the animals you mentioned.
Seems like some care if they wound a deer but the other animals it just doesn't matter that much.

I'm not saying this is for all hunters but I would say there are some with this attitude and that is why you don't have the outcry when you speak of headshots on these animals that you do with deer.

BigTiny

The first deer I ever shot I took with a head shot. I was home on leave and had never hunted deer before. I didn't hunt again until a couple of years ago. Now that I'm older, and don't practice as much, there's no way I would take that shot now. There are people that can take that shot all day long, but I know that's not me anymore. I could probably make that shot 95% of the time even now, but that's not good enough.

buckhunter14

The reason I take head shots on all smallgame, waterfowl, and upland bird is simply because I am using a shotgun with birdshot. This answers your question in full, unless you say; well, you use a shotgun with buckshot on deer. I would never shoot buckshot at any animal.

RugerM77.270

I think its because people "respect" for lack of a better word, deer more then pigs. In a lot of the country pigs are a nussance and revvered as pest rather then game.

1shotkill1993

ditto