About 5yrs ago I shot a nice 10pt during rifle season, before I shot I noticed what I THOUGHT was a small branch hanging in his antlers/over his head, dismissed it and took the shot...when I got to the body, I noticed that the "branch" was actually an arrow that had penetrated to the left of the left eye (between eye and ear) and exited behind the right ear...The wounds around the shaft looked fairly old, I'd guessed at the time maybe a week or two at least, if not longer, based on the extent of healing.

So, some archer had either missed POORLY and made an actually pretty difficult shot, or had made a very poor shot choice. It really amazed me that he was still walking around like normal, considering a fixed blade broadhead went through his brainbox, let alone the fact that the arrow was still stuck in there!!

I mounted the skull with a .30-06 dummy round on the plaque above the head with the arrow stuck back through it...interesting conversation piece.