RE: The "dead spot" theory revisited
It may indeed be fake, but I'm not here to decide that. What I do know for certain is this. There have been lots and lots of people shot in the chest through one lung that have lived. Not the norm mind you, but it does happen. I've worked several car crashes in which victims had a pneumothorax (which coincidentally is one of thecauses of death in an arrow shot deer) that survived.
My point is this....Though rare and not likely, it's possible to run an arrow through a deer's chest and NOT kill it....think about it...