With a neck shot If you miss you miss and if you hit him he is dead. No questions asked. I have done both i have lost a deer that i shot in the body but never on i shot in the neck.

BigTex, I am with you on this one....I shot a deer in the neck when I was 12 and it ran about 50 yards and died, that was with a .223! If you put a .270 or greater in the neck It will drop a deer dead 99.9% of the time, there is an chance you make a bad shot and just graze the bottom of the neck and miss artery, however, a direct hit anywhere on the neck will break neck bone even without hitting the actual bone. Now there is a chance you miss neck and hit Jaw, but this is more likely on a head shot than a neck shot. The Vitals shot behind the shoulder is good too, don't get me wrong, i use both....BUT there is a lot more chance of missing vitals or hitting vitals and having little or no blood and running a good distance and being harder to recover...I like the neck shot, but am not afraid to put one behind the shoulder either, depending on distance and situation

i disagree that most of the time, "its true if you shoot them in the vitals they will drop in their tracts" If fact i'd say unless you mess up and shoot high and hit spine or go forward in take out shoulder, they almost always run......it would be more of a true statement that most of the time when you hit them in the vitals they will DIE...but not drop in their tracts....with the exception of 1 all neck shots I've seen drop DRT.

Your full of it! If you shoot a deer square in the neck he is dead. Granted you have to shoot something bigger than a pellet gun.