Wouldn't have believed it if there weren't pics
 

A bud of mine from PA showed me these pics. Looks like someone took a quartering to shot, got a through-and-through, looks like at least one lung would have gotten tatered. BUT, he's healed and looks like he is doing well. I am floored by these photos...

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Wow, I don't know if that would be good or bad. He's lucky to have survived, but unlucky do to the pain he would have been in.

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It is hard to beleave how deer survie shots like that , but when looking at the photos you can see that the shot was a little high.
I don't think it hit the lungs at all but just above them although I've heard that they can survie on only one lung , I don't really beleave that one but it might be possiable.

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Unbelieable...Deer can be almost bionic at times....Looks like a fairly level shot w/ almost no downward angle...I would maybe agree that it passed just high of the lungs....

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Looks like if the deer was shot then it would have had to be shot from ground level. because the wounds are at the same height on the body. It couldnt have been from a tree stand. or the exit would would have been way lower.

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Could be a healed wound or could just be coincidental scars from something else, fighting maybe?
I have seen a passthru shot in the neck of a buck that healed over. Anything is possible with them critters.

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It really looks like a wound from an arrow but there's no way to know for sure that it is. IF it is then WOW, it'd almost be a shame for him to be killed after surviving all of that.

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Maybe that space between the lungs and spine is not a myth after all!! Nice pics

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Wow...that is pretty amazing. Shot looks a little high.

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do you guys think he will still grow a good rack next year, or will his rack always stay small now that he has been shot.

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I believe it was over the spine especially the entrance. But pretty darn close on the exit.

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Wow! That's amazing. These are some remarkable critters we chase after each year and each year we learn something new!

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What great story and a lucky deer. It will be interesting to see if he survives this year, what he eill look like next year.

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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.

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If you look at any diagram of the vitals of a deer, you'll note that there cannot possibly be a "void" on a deer - check out this one for instance:



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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Them bucks are tough. Must not have hit anything vital. He shouldn't have shot that buck anyway unless it was his first buck.

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I'd bet there is a VERY good chance those wounds are antler inflicted...not arrow.