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How does a deer survive this?

Bluecollaroutdoors

Bluecollaroutdoors

5 year old buck +
Shot January 4th. We have pictures of it alive 11 days later with the arrow now out or broken off as well. If you look close you can see thats a full arrow with roughly 12 inches sticking out. Very close shot. Under 10 yards. I have a video where he walks and the arrow moves to a straight up and down position.

I understands it hight but at lets say 18 feet angled down at 8 yards doesnt that cook the off side lung?MFDC2097.JPG
 
It looks likea spine shot in that picture, which if it is, it’s remarkable that he could walk, which makes me think that couldn’t be it. Most likely since you said the arrow moves up and down.. given that angle.. I would guess that hit the shoulder joint area. That’s why it moves so much. If that’s the case, arrow never got to the vitals.
 
But you can see the fletching in that picture. A shoulder shot should only penetrate a few inches. Where is the other 18 inches of arrow?
 
Right.... shoulder opposite side.... where the arrow enters is considered “no mans land.” Nothing there, over the top of the lungs into the opposite shoulder.
 
FYI I did not shoot this deer. I am just amazed at the science of this one.

I can't buy that at that angle the arrow goes over the off side lung. I can give ya the front side. I have no firms stance on the no mans land conversation.

Crazy deal to me. If that arrow goes in 4 inches i get it. That much penetration and still standing I cant wrap my head around.
 
I shot a buck during the opening weekend of the 2014 Wisconsin gun deer season. It had an arrow that was in it's left front leg, ahead of all the vitals. Not shot by me or any of my hunters. I have a rule that an obviously injured buck or doe has to be taken if possible. After dropping the buck, we found that the arrows tip was in the leg bone area. We could not pull the arrow out of the bone. Instead, I unscrewed the arrow from it's tip. When I took it to my processor, I made a point of telling him the arrow tip was still in the deer. I did an European skull mount with this buck and included the arrow shaft as part of the mount. Wrote a short story of this event and put that on the mount also.
 
Bluecollaroutdoors said:
FYI I did not shoot this deer. I am just amazed at the science of this one.

I can't buy that at that angle the arrow goes over the off side lung. I can give ya the front side. I have no firms stance on the no mans land conversation.

Crazy deal to me. If that arrow goes in 4 inches i get it. That much penetration and still standing I cant wrap my head around.
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Without a doubt that arrow doesn’t touch the lungs if they aren’t expanded in the chest cavity when it hits. If the arrow moves when it walks. It’s stuck in something that moves. That a leg/shoulder. If that deer was a one lung hit would be dead by now.
 
I bet that deer hit the ground on impact with it being that close to the spine. Seems really odd being that Hit there it didn't just pass through the ribs on the other side. Unless it's angle forward from a qtring away shot. Hard to tell from 1 pick.

I had my favorite buck show up with that same shot last season. Must have been a shot from the ground as the wound was in the same place on both sides. Somehow he lived but he didn't have and arrow shaft rubbing all around.
 
Deer did not fall from a spinal shock. Shot was 8 yards severely 1/4 away and more like walking straight away.
 
I agree the arrow is in the shoulder. Probably between the rib cage and the shoulder blade.

Tell the shooter he shouldn't take shots at such an angle. It's not ethical.
 
If I am seeing it right, it looks like, IMHO, that arrow is above the spine. Definitely a downward angle. Looks like it maybe hit a spinous process on one of the vertebrae or maybe even went between 2 of them (spinous process)? It's too far back to be in the shoulder on the entry side. If it was quartering away it could be in the opposite shoulder. Happy to be wrong.
 
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I bet it hurts. Hell, I've got an infected fingernail right now and I can barely go on living. Imagine an arrow in your back.
 
Definitely looks spine. Can you post the video? One year we found a buck carcass and without looking too hard found 3 broadheads in it . Shoulder, hip, and spine.
 
Looks like a high hit above the spine; "no man's land". Looking at a live deer, the hair, hide, and meat above the vertebrae is several inches minimum. A shot through that material even at a steep angle can be superficial. Keep in mind that the center of what you see looking down at a deer is actually pretty high up on that body. Also keep in mind that most hunters start with a 20 yard pin. Closer shots they hit a few inches high coupled with inadvertently aiming several inches high due to optical illusion and this is what you get.
 
Spine is lower than that arrow. Its above the spine for sure.
 
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Hard to say. Like many others I have seen deer processed that had broadheads, parts of arrows and bullets in them that were healed over. On the other hand this buck was shot with an arrow 6 weeks previous to this photo. The wound in the shoulderdouble split 3.jpg appears to be healed over yet he was found dead with antlers still attached a few months later. Maybe infection set in and it was one of those wounds that never healed?
 
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