I posted the following in a previous thread a while back and didn't feel like typing it all again. Everyone has their opinion on this subject but I have seen a deer get shot under the spine and live. I have seen trail cam photos of a deer shot under the sping that was living a couple of weeks later and I have seen deer taken a day after they were shot UNDER the spine. I am talking about seeing pictures of the deer showing where he was shot the day before with a bow and where he was shot the following day with a rifle and photos of the inside of the deer when he was gutted. Call in an anomoly or a freak of nature or whatever you want to. Here is the post:
A couple of years back I had a buddy that went down to Texas and shot a buck with his bow. They called in a tracker with a dog but still lost the deer. They let him continue his hunt with his rifle with the stipulation that he could only shoot the deer that he had wounded. He told the guides that it was a waist of time and that he would just head back home, but the guide bet him $100 that the deer would be back to the peanut field at some point in the next few days. So Bill stayed and hunted. The next afternoon, the buck he shot the day before came back into the same peanut field and he killed it with a rifle. He had shot the deer a couple of inches (4" or so)behind the shoulder and high (right under the spine). The deer was walking around fine the following day when he shot it a second time (with a rifle)and you can clearly see where he hit him the previous day in the photos. I have personally always believed there is in fact a void.My best friendskinned deer at a processor for several years,he says he has seen deer come in on several occaisions with scars from a passthrough in the "void".