I don't think any of these ideas may help us in the field per se, but they do help us understand how an animal dies, and why a certain animal may react differently than another shot in exactly the same circumstances.

It makes sense to me. Hit the chest when the heart is on the "high" beat, and there is too much pressure for all of those vessels to handle. Hit the aorta and there isn't enough pressure to do anything and the animal faints. Hit the animal with no oxygen in the blood and it can't go anywhere on reserves. And hit the animal with plenty of oxygen in the blood, and it will surely die, but can make it a while before it does die.

I would like to see what the different brains look like in these instances. Ones where the heart was on the high beat, low beat, where the aorta was struck, and where there was differences in oxygen. Unfortunately, we cannot kill enough deer here to be able to actually document everything and see a pattern develop.

Kinda cool.

Later,

Marcial