I once put not one, but two arrows through both lungs of a small doe, and a 3rd arrow along its ribs. (It actually stayed around for me to shoot it 3 times.) That little doe covered 1/3 mile through dense woods (not across an open field mind you), bleeding out and required a 2-man tracking job that totaled 7 hours. Field dressing confirmed the 2 lung hits.

I'm convinced that if I had let it alone after the first hit, the deer would have laid down and died quickly under my stand. I think after the 3rd hit, it was able to travel such an extraordinary distance on sheer adrenaline. That of course is very uncharacteristic of other lung hits that I've trailed, which usually last only 25 to 125 yds.

The only other lung hit deer that I recall travelling for some distance was a buck that took an arrow through both shoulder blades. It ran 400 yds, though his escape led across an open field that took just a few seconds.