Thanks for the clarification. I would agree that a shot right under the heart/lungs, that a deer could live. I guess it wasn't specified just where the shot was, it was just low and didn't hit vitals. I guess that when someone say vitals, I immediately think of lungs, and heart. I was thinking more that the shot could have been low, but further back, where it could have clipped intestines, etc. A shot where the deer could have lived a long time before expiring.