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rattus58,
I have not heard that neck shots were unethical and they are not outlawed in our hunting regulations. The neck shot is effective if you can make it. I have cut up enough deer to know the neck vertarbrae is a small target-even at close range. I would bet not 20% of the deer hunters would know where to find it on a deer's neck.
Your muzzleloaders may be "as accurate as any centerfire", but some other folks do not find it to be so. I own accurate muzzleloaders and some not as accurate as iron-sighted bolt rifles. I prefer the heart-lung shots over the neck shots because there is more room for error and it is fairer to the game in my humble opinion. Every year the local game warden gives out tags to hunters who bagged gangrenous, and unfit for human consumption, deer wounded by inept hunters. Botched neck shots and paunched deer are a waste.
Adam
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