ORIGINAL: Cloudster

I know from experience that a neck shot is not fatal.....this is what happens when things go wrong. I shot this buck the day before, it was warm in the afternoon and the snow was melting and dripping all over my bow and arrows, later in the evening the dripping snow froze on to my arrow fletching (I was unaware). This guy came in and I let it fly, he was 25 yards from me, and to my amazement the arrow went flying in a big spiral (I knew I was in trouble). As you can see in the picture the arrow struck the deer in the neck (just on the top edge of the spine) and passed through. There was lots of blood and a friend and I tracked him for well over a mile. There is a good ending to this story, one of my friends hunting a mile away from where I shot this deer, shot him one week later under his stand.....he was unaware that it was the same buck, he said it was fighting with a large 4 point moments before he shot it...he said it showed no signs of being injured (tough animals). When we skinned the deer we inspected the wound on his neck, and found that it had chipped the top of his spine!!