I know what you mean, sensop. I've done a bit of tracking on "Optimist's deer". But God invented practicing so I could hit what I was aiming at, I guess. I freely admit that I'll go for a "front of the big brown part" if I don't have a reasonable rest for my preferred neck shot. And I've never, ever had a neck-cripple.
On the other side of that coin, we had a couple of short-term guys on our lease who never, ever, missed a deer. Trouble was, they usually found a broadside deer, and hit somewhere close to the hindmost rib. Yuck! Funny--they never were enthusiastic about field-dressing their deer...
Deer on ground, good!
Two miles of little red spots, bad!
Later, Art