Skeeter, You might have seen some of my posting or others about a book called tracking dogs for finding wounded deer. John talks in his book about his research and that during some of his necropsys (sp)he found a doe with one lung that looked like a prune and another that had and obvious broadhead scare through the top of the lung. Both were obvious old and healed. 3 years ago I tracked a deer that was obvious one lung. Sharp down angle, bubbles typical sign for lung. Being my first full season of tracking I made some mistakes on this one and ended up not finiding the deer. Well the following year I run into the hunter and he tells me they spotted the buck 2 weeks later with a wound on the top right side. The deer was going strong though. I would say surving is possably but I imagine that depending on the type of weapon used thus the amount of contamination to the wound that infections probably kill a great number of one lung hit deer.

Get back to the original posters question about that particular deer. As a tracker one of the questions I would have asked before taking the call was there any bone at the hit site. Most lung blood is pinkish not bright red. The bright red is usually some type of muscle. IF the deer was hit in the jaw as someone mentioned the deer would have been trackable but would have taken a while to walk the deer down, keep it bleeding and catch it in a wound bed.