Originally Posted by
SportsmanNH
A double lung shot with a rifle the deer will be stone dead in 7 to 10 seconds because you are doing major damage with the wound channel and trauma . With a bow regardless if its a crossbow or compound that relies all on bleeding out it could take 20 seconds . but most will be dead in 100 -150 yards .
That was a different deer making the noise . That deer did not live very long from that crossbow hit in that location.
This has been my experience. I was going to say that a lung-shot deer will live about 5-10 seconds. I've missed hitting ribs and watched the deer stand there for that length of time and drop dead. Usually, though, they run. However far they run in that length of time is how far you have to track them.