just had that exact experience myself. My buddy shot a nice buck and while we were boning it out found a muzzy in the vertebrae, didn't touch spinal. His rack grew a little funky, and we're assuming that's why. Deer didn't have any problems at all with it except for the funky rack.

Here's another funny one, the buck I shot this year has a great story. My buddy chris had hunted with me the night before I shot it and shot a nice buck. We went to track and found barely any blood and looked for about 4 hours that night. We decided we'd hunt in the morning and then go look for it again. As me and my buddy are walking to go meet chris we see this buck down in the ditch. Long story shot I shoot it, gut it, and we find the graze mark on his back where my buddy chris had shot him the night before.