Cause his azz is starving and that rib meat will carry them howngry youngins through the cold hard winters of Alabama. He also practices and can shoot squirrels, so it's a no brainer.

Hopefully he is trolling

Nope for me.

Why y’all downing on the man he said he gonna practice.

Not my preferred shot but I've done it and I'll probably do it again. Situation has to be perfect for me, a feeding doe with head down facing me at a relatively close distance with a stable rest.

I’ve never understood why ppl want to make things harder than it’s got to be. I hear ppl all the time talking about the next magic spot to shoot a deer. 100% of deer die when you blow their lungs out. It’s the biggest target and the least protected spot on a deer.

Head shots are ugly when they go wrong. Put my dog on one several years ago. Luckily she was able bay it. The deer broke and headed straight back towards us, presenting a shot to finish it off. The lower jaws where hanging on by skin.

I don’t even shoot em in the head when using my Qbeam. But If’n it’s the only shot I got, I’m taking it.

Not going to bash you but I'm not going to do it myself. I would just use a heart/lung shot and have an excuse to shoot an extra deer every year if I wanted to make up for lost meat. If your going to practice a bunch and get really good with a particular rifle for headshots, why not use that learned skill to punch a clean hole through the ribs with a semi-explosive .223 and turn the lungs to mush with minimal damage to the far side ribs?

Jeez, didn't we just have this conversation a week or so ago, about neck shots? Same answer, in spades.

Just because you can....................................... Doesn't mean you should..................................

I think anyone that would take head shots at deer has some mental issues.

Thanks for all the tips guys. I was unsure at first, but all of your support has given me the confidence to pursue it.

Have fun

This is true for people that have kids and don't take care of them.

He's just trying to get y'alls blood pressure up.

You'd do better to use a bolt action with the scope mounted low. Bolts will have shorter lock time so it's less likely you will break the shot too late before the deer moves. Having the scope mounted lower will make for less rise in trajectory to zero distance. An AR is not the tool for this.

I used to take a lot of head shots; some way out there. I stopped when I realized my shooting wasn't up to it anymore. My eyes got worse and I didn't practice as much for various reasons. Had I continued I probably would have had a bad experience. So, be real honest with yourself about the status of your equipment, training and practice. There's nothing wrong with headshooting. It's just that hardly anyone is in tune with their equipment and gameshooting to the point they can do it 100%.

Lol its just a deer , they die all the time . Blowed off jaw or knaw on by a yote or blowed off leg or arrow broke off in him . It's a deers life .

Yep. People always find a way to over complicate something so easy.

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like this next…”But that ruins the lungs and I love me some fried lungs….” 🤦🏻‍♂️

Let me get this straight. You had a retired game warden advise you not to. You had a tracker tell you not to. You had several hunters that have made head shots and said that they would never do it again tell you not to. And you also had a marksman that shoots competitively and deer hunts advise against it. Then you post what I quoted after all that. So why did you ask us for advice since you had already made up your mind? Now we just think that you are the commander of the dumbass brigade.