ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
1) Breaking a deer's spine does not kill it...it only paralizes it down from the area where the spine is broken...
When you break the neck above the 3rd cervical vertebrae, you sever the vagus nerve innervation to the diaphragm thereby prventing the deer from breathing which will kill it within minutes.
Nice and blue,
She stopped breathing immediately, closed her eyes and stopped moving promptly.