ORIGINAL: Raxxmaster
Windwalker, if you use your spot on your deer and put it on the photo of the anatomy that Rob just linked, the second one, it shows that your red dot hits the top of the lungs or bottom of the spine. Like he said, perhaps that's the case. I don't believe in the void either but I too believe the lungs can be damaged and not destroyed. Just my 2 cents.
That's what it looks like to me as well, OR, the arrow deflected from the spine, not breaking it or the spinal cord and deflected forward nicking one lung, the animal can survive.
The photo's in the book by John Jeanenney show pretty good scares on the lungs, almost centered. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it.