ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Pops:
I don't have that photo....but do me a favor and remove your white line.......insert another white line below the entrance side tut of hair and stop it at the entrance wound. Now do the same thing on the exit side below the tuft.
Looks a little different when you don't cover up the path, doesn't it.
Like I said.....I don't care anymore (for the sake of this exercise) whether it went above or below the spine....NOR do I think it matters. With the location of the exit wound......if that's an arrow wound.....I think there's some intestinal damage.
I think we'd walk funnier, too if soemone stabbed s with a 12" bowie knife all the way through. But that 4" pen knife can kill you just as dead. Just might take a little longer for you to die.
Jeff I totally disagree. A Muzzy is what 1.25" across, there is more skin, fat and tissue between the hide and the ribcage to make up more than 1.25".
Tell me this, if I photo/film that deer weeks from now, you still going to say he'll die eventually? Let's say the blades were down like sled runners and with a blade away from the ribcage, do you honestly think a broadhead would not fit betweent he hide and the ribs without puncturing the cavity.
Next deer I shoot I'm going to slide an arrow exactly where I feel this one is. I find Germ's picture that Pops quoted perfect.
And I find it hilarious if MOTOWN is right about just being tufts of hair. My cuz swears he hit it just over the shoulder which could be the cut on the front shoulder, maybe the deer was hit twice, maybe my cuz is wrong but where did that other cut come from?
Lots of mystery on this one and I'm almost sorry I posted it.