RE: Optical illusion
Yep sounds like a gutter !!
Only strange one I' ve had like that -that hit right....was a small buck I shot last season. I hit him behind the shoulder and out right behind the heart. I had virtually no blood on my arrow and it was coated with greenish acorn residue . I had an incredible bloodtrail though and found him 125 yrds later . Only thing I could figure was that I hit him through the esophagus(sp) coming into the stomach !! I really didn' t autopsy him.......kind of wish I had now !! If I had not had the bloodtrail and seen blood coming out of the lung (entry hole) as he ran off.....I would have thought it was a stomach or gut hit !!