I have to admit, when I'm shooting at a nice buck, I don't remember consciously aiming that small. I pretty much just center it up toward the front half of the body and BANG!!!

However, I have this little routine with a bow where I talk to myself as it's about to happen. I tell myself, "Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim..." I want my pin in the fold of the shoulder, roughly center of body or lower. I have to make myself slow down and consciously AIM at a small spot. Just pokin' a hole through one isn't good enough.

1, except a little higher broadside.

All of the above cause I'd be shaking.

M-gun,O-bow.M with a round that will penetrate is like hitting one with a car.

W-bow
N -rifle

All this "this spot with my bow" and "this spot with my gun" and this spot with this caliber and this spot with my magnum is what I don't understand. I'd get all confused and maim one.

My limited experience, hunted 2 seasons so far ... O-P is where I've always aimed and it works well. I'm still working on my first bow kill but I'll aim at the same place

#1 was DRT boom-flop ... didn't even twitch (30-06, 165g SST)
#2 fell in tracks and passed within 2 mins (30-06, 165g SST)
#3 ran into a thicket and fell 30 yards away (30-06, 165g SST)
#4 fell in tracks and passed within 10 seconds (308, 150g Barnes TTSX)
#5 was a frontal shot into O-P, ran 70 yards(308, 150g Barnes TTSX)
#6 fell in tracks, DRT(308, 150g Barnes TTSX)

RIFLE: N - O region. I feel like I should shoot for the 2/B/M regions with a rifle though to anchor them faster.

#3 for me. The shock breaks the spinal cord in the neck. In 33 years of hunting, I've never had to track one.

I would put one right between his eyes at the angle. Waste no meet and he ain't going anywhere.

S. 1 Mile

I agree.. If we running with dogs and buckshot.. I'm aiming for A, and that will put me around O when it gets there..

i need to dust off my 10ga and ride over there durning dog season . lol

I quit shooting deer behind the shoulder with a rifle when I shot a 120lb doe that ran 200+- yards across a bean field and piled up in a creek. There were pieces of lungs and bone laying in the field where I hit her.

D to E with a gun, broadside, and steady/sure shot.

O otherwise

I vote in-between O & P with a bow or a gun as long as the deer is standing like he is in the pic.

I would aim at the bottom of W-X with bow. If he ducks I'll hit high if not I'll shoot his heart out.
With a gun I aim between O-P.

Same here. Aim point X with bow, but impact location will most likely be O-P.

I've hit high with bow way more times than I've hit low.

O-P broadside, favorite with bow would be quartering away entry point R

Rifle=n-o
bow=o-p
Quartering angles, I just imagine a line straight through the deer that would intersect with o. That said, I don't usually take Quartering toward me shots with a bow. A slight angle, maybe, and adjust shot a bit to miss the shoulder. Should still let the air out.