RE: Wounded the biggest 8 Pointer in my life!!
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I have determined that there was no lung. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
Personally, I believe that there is a very good chance that it was a single lung. A single lung deer can live an aweful long time depending on "how tough the deer is". Can it live 24 hours? Yes. But that is more rare than the ussual 15 hour rule. Will it die? Yes. Depending on the way it was hit, you may not even have much of the pink frothy blood that you would expect. You didn't have the exit wound which would have been benefical to you.
A lung hit deer does not act the same at all as a gut hit or liver hit deer. They can travel a long way without bedding. The reason is that a liver or gut hit deer is actually feeling very sick. The single lung hot does not. Also, the single lung hit deer will not necessarily travel to water the way that a gut or liver hot deer will.