RE: pre-shot deer
Well - I took both deer cleanly - with a shotgun. I'm sure they were painful - but neither was fatal.
The One in the pelvis was an 8 point - that showed no sign of injuiry when I took him chasing a doe across a field. The arrowhead was from the Year before - and his rack was lopsided as aresult.
The Other was a forkhorn with an obvious limp - and a Swollen Front knee. - It wasn't infected - and the bone had re-grown - though I do think the shot was from earlier the same year.
Remember these pictures when you process a deer - you don't want to reach up in there and get sliced by an old broadhead.Bow woundings a not often fatal - sometines the broadhead stays in the deer.
FH