ORIGINAL: davidmil

Waiting... you describe exactly myfavortie saying, stuff happens. I had a near identical incident about 25 years ago. I had a deer come right close but I knew I could make the shot. The deer was angled slightly away. When I released I saw the spot appear about the 5 rib up. I knew, dead deer. On checking the arrow I found it covered with green slimy crap. But I knew where I hit the deer. I knew it was some sort of food pipe or something. I went and collected my buddy to help me drag out the deer. He said, "You gut shot him". I assured him I had made a good hit but he still didn't believe. I ended up literally on my knees looking for sign. We found maybe a tablespoon of blood in 100 yards. My buddy said, there he is. I looked up ahead and saw no deer. He said "NO, right beside you". I was 5 feet from the deer before we saw it. the arrow did exactly what I thought. It caught one lung hi and one lung low exiting under the off side shoulder. Between the chest wall and the hide was a glob of half chewed up green food. The arrow had indeed gone through the food esophogus. The deer was probably pushing up a cud or something and all this green slime plugged the hole like cement. It was a perfect double lung autopsy...but the arrow was covered in green goo. We were real careful in our field dressing to see exactly what happened. His still my friend living in Georgia and we still talk about that deer. I've probably been in onsomewhere around300 deer dressings. I've learned, stuff does happen and what you see is definitely not what you always have.

P.S. He also blew green slime out his nose and mouth like someones picture is on here the other day. I figure he had a vomit.