ORIGINAL: HNI_Christine
Just to be a pain, but not all heart shots will cause the heart to stop beating.
Deer shot through the heart/lungs and big arteries
usually go down so quickly because they have a massive drop in blood pressure. This is why deer shot through the femoral artery, dorsal aorta and renal arteriescan go down as fast as double lunged deer. Lack of blood flow/oxygen to the brain is what kills the deer. Lack of blood pressure is what causes deer to black out within seconds.
This is your physiology lesson for the day. [&:]
BigJ71 Wrote:
Actually a deer will live about30 seconds after a clean double lung or a heart shot. When the heart is hit it will stop beating, the deer will/can only run as long as the oxygen in his blood will support consciousness.
I thought I was clear about the "clean shot"
But you arecorrect Christine and I suspect that's what happened in this case, the heart was nicked and only onelung punctured, thus the long time (relatively speaking) to expire.