IMO that deer was not gut shot at all. He would walk all hunch up, he's as healthy as Jeff's Goat

Jeff, we don't know if this deer was all hunch up like yooper stated. If he was than the diagram is useless IMO

In this view, from an elevated position I can see how an arrow can clip the top of the spin, not sever it and pass under the hide and exit.

So gutshot deer.....(I'm trying to learn something here) walk "hunched up" from the time theyre shot until they die? Documented?

If we can agree that the exit wound (shown on the entrance side....due to the orientation of the diagram) is where I have the green dot.....show me where the entrance wound would have to be. Oh yeah.....refer back to the video and see if you're close.

If Rob gets video of this deer in November....I'll take my crow medium rare.






You can refer back to this if you need to.

Jeff if that deer had a hole in his belly, he would be walking hunched up.

Your arrow is way too low and angle is not steep enough.

Holy ****, Gary. "MY" "arrow" is where the HOLES ARE!....lol

You're 1 dimensional black line is useless.

What's your point by this comment?
You just stated exactly what I did in my post...........show the angle of the deer facing straight away. That really gives a better look at the position of the entry and exit than that offset picture.

With the animal facing away you can get a better orientation of the very top of the animal and where the arrow went in and out.

It's definitely a weird one........it almost looks as if to exit where the arrow did the arrow would have to go right through the spine but obviously it didn't. The deer's body is curved, not straight sloped so the broadhead obviously didn't ride right under the skin in an arc coming out where it did or the skin would be gashed wide open.
I still think that some internal organs (most likely intestine) had to be at least clipped. The question is if they were do they heal on their own and at what rate? I wonder how sharp the broadhead was as well.........I can't remember if Rob mentioned it or not but I seem to think he mentioned that his cousin isn't a very "serious" type bowhunter so who knows what condition the blades were in prior as well.

Hopefully rob can watch this buck throughout the season. I'd say if he makes it through the week or so he'll be fine.
He sure is acting it right now. I know if I was hit through my intestines with a Muzzy I'd be lying on the ground screaming and crying like a 6yr old girl who just got her favorite Barbie doll taken away from her.

I had the exact opposite impression of the exit wound than Mauser did too..........very modest and not a lot of apparent damage.

I'm surprised it didn't spine him but from the video I would have to say it some how went above. I'm not seeing signs of a gut shot

My ONLY point (evn though I think the arrow DID go under the spine) is....exactly what you state, above. HOW cn you have an exit wound from a pass-thru THAT ow on a deer's body....and expect that no internal organs were hit?

What do we tell EVERYBODY about gutshot deer? They WILL die from their wounds.

Dude your arrow is too flat and need to come up a bit.

Shot 20 ft from a tree at 15 yds, this is what we know.I have never seen an arrow that flat from over 20 ft. That buck will live a long and happy life.

There is no doubt in my mind that the arrow went OVER the spine or through the top bones and didn't break the spine nor sever the spinal cord. There is no way in hell that arrow went under the spine like Germ said, 20' up, 15 yards. Had the arrow been under the spine, the exit would have been much lower and that deer would be dead now. I wouldn't have seen him.