Let me tell you why I am often skeptical of the forensic ability of some hunters. A cousin of mine told me a story of a buck he had shot through the heart with a 12 gauge slug. He told me he tracked the deer for several hundred yards and jumped him several times before finally finding him dead. He told me the slug had "puverized" the heart turning it into "jelly".I was of course skeptical and found it a mystery how a deer could go so far with a smashed heart. Years later I killed a buck with my 12 gauge and after hearing the shot my cousin came over to my stand. As I was gutting the deer he exclaimed "look at that" you smashed the heart into jelly". He was refering to the thick coagulated blood that often comes out of the chest cavity in a Jelly like consistence. Mystery solved.

I also think a lot of guys "assume" they got lung(s) because of where the arrow entered the deer and not from an examination of the lungs themselvs. Also, there are a lot of guys who simply "rip" out the lungs in pieces thereby destroyingany chance of a good observation of thearrow path.