I shot a 10 point out of a treestand me and my Dad hunt, and I hit it high, and it survived. 1 week later my Dad went to the same stand. Same deer came by He seen the spot where I had hit it. He shot, and hit a branch it deflected the arrow into the bottom of the deer's neck, still survived. Well a month later in gun season my Dad went to that stand on the 3rd day. The same deer came chasing does by that stand, and finally He got it. So it got shot twice out of this tree and still continued to come back. Either it was dumb, or didn't have very good memory.