I know an avidbowhunter who not only guides LOTS of hog hunts every year, but kills more hogs in a year with a bowthan most hog hunters will kill in a lifetime... He takes the meat and donates it to needy families in his area, butchers it for them and all.

At any rate, hestronglybelievesthat not only is it possible, but probable for a hog to survive a single lung shot with a bow, and to put them down reliably you must punch both lungs. He claims to have butchered numerous hogs with a dark necrotic mass fora lung due to aprevious arrow wound. Now granted, I haven't seen it myself, but I can think of few men as knowledgeable about hogs and archery gear than this man, and he is absolutely trustworthy.

Where does that put us on this deer? Once again, I don't know, butI have seen enough odd events in my life to know anything is possible, and it is not unreasonable at all to believe a deer COULD survive a wound like that.