Unless a poor shot or pushed deer generally won't make it over 100 yards after being hit in the vitals. Exceptions to the rule as never expect anything when dealing with a wild animal who'swill to survive is paramount to anything else..nature of the hunted I guess.

This year I have harvested 5 deer & 1 bull elk thus far with a firearm, deer- 2 ml and 3 rifle. My 1 Ml deer ran, she made it maybe 20 yards before succumbing to both lungs being hit. The others, 2 bucks were shoulder shot as it is what I had,while theother 2 does where hit where the heart and lungs meet trashing both, all 4 dropped where they stood. My elk was also hit in the same heart/lung meeting placehe made it maybe 50 yards from the hit, though majority of that was on his nose down the edge of the ridgeline!

My longest personal track job was several hundred yards after pushing a single lung hit buck to soon. Had I been patient he would have been less than 100 yards from the shot so I learned yet again what not to do.

I have seen poor hit deer go a long ways but again pushing them is the main reason for making it tougher than it had to be. If not sure then stay off them for at least 30 minutes. If they drop make sure to reload and keep focused as I watched my partners elk this year jump up after twitching on theground as his shot touched the spine causing temporary paralysis. Thank god he was ready for such an event and when the bull regained his feet he stuffed the next one in tight and took out both lungs. One leap he was gone but not far as the second shot did its job. Had we been high 5ing I doubt we'd of found him based on the first near miss. Even schooled guys get the shanks and make a poor shot at times, he is very experienced and an excellent marksman(trained sharp shooter),so be dilgent and never say never!