Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
#14
RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
Those pictures are really amazing. It looks to me like the shot went above all of the organs. I don't see how those scars could be anything but a arrow wound.
Also, this injury should not do anything to his antler development.
Also, this injury should not do anything to his antler development.
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Michigan
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RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
Maybe that space between the lungs and spine is not a myth after all!! Nice pics
You hit the spine or the lungs, right?
Well.... I have personally shot a deer under the spine not quite midway back from the shoulder and never recovered the animal. My buddy two years ago made the same shot on a deer and we never found that one either (the red dot in the above pic marks those two shots). What makes these two stories amazing though is that both deer were seen two weeks later with exit wounds on both sides - walking around, eating, and appeard to be perfectly healthy. So I wouldn't doubt those scars were from an arrow.
They do have a tenacity to live. Amazing critters.
#16
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NH
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RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
Nah, I didn't hit that deer, it's a buddies bait pile photos. I'm sure he'll have pictures of this deer next year.
I put an arrow through a doe this year, just behind the diapragm and just below the spine...I have never seen blood pump so far out of an animal. She looked like a hose spraying blood 2' out of each side of her. There has to be a major artery just below the spine taking up some of that 'void' space.
I put an arrow through a doe this year, just behind the diapragm and just below the spine...I have never seen blood pump so far out of an animal. She looked like a hose spraying blood 2' out of each side of her. There has to be a major artery just below the spine taking up some of that 'void' space.
#17
RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
To me it looks like it was quartering away when he took the shot. The arrow deflected off one of the spine bones and went up and came out above the front shoulder.
#18
RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
my buddy hit one the same way we gave it 2 hours...we tracked for 4 hours and had blood the whole time. We gave up and he's gonna hopefully find it tonight....but that picture made me change my mind about him finding it.
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
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RE: Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
There is a major artery that runs just under the spine almost the entire length. By accident, I hit a doe there a few years ago. I was fortunate and she ran about 50 yards, stopped and just tipped over dead. The scars on that buck look like it would have lead to it's death by know, but it seems to be recovering fairly well.