ORIGINAL: Mike from Texas
Strange things happen every now and then. I suspect that the shot angle was steeper than we can tell and the arrow went out the botom of the chest getting ony 1 lung, but I don't know for sure and neither do any of you.
I agree. The shot seems angled forward,(and the shoulder is WAY forward) so it would miss the heart. I think it exited between the deers legs. Carbon arrows really flex(assuming its carbon, but aluminum bends too), so you just cant draw a strait line in from that shaft in the middle of impact. It might have clipped a lung, maybe even just went through the brisket.
Also, the deer's shoulder moving forward(tensing) may have pulled that outside part of the arrow forward so it points more strait in?