A double lung... A REAL DOUBLE LUNG... and the deer will be dead before you gather your gear and get out of the tree. A glancing blow across a heart or one chamber might not be as effective all the time,... but the animal should not be going any mile. Catching the edges of a lung is not the same as punching the center. A deer has to loose about 1 ounce of blood per pound from the circulatory system to pass out. So, 150 deer needs to loose a little over 4 1/2 quarts. It doesn't all have to be on the ground.. just out of the arteries and veins. If the heart shuts down a deer won't loose the blood, but it'll have the same effect and they'll pass out before death. A REAL heart shot looks something like this.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
This deer didn't put a 1/2 cup of blood on the ground... but didn't go more than 25 yards.
Edited by - davidmil on 01/22/2003 15:48:53