And for the record.....MY intestinal "piercing" occcurred approximately 3 WEEKS before I was operated on. The infection took over in 3' of my colon....and untreated ....I would have died from septic shock.

Wich is exactly what "I" think this deer will die from.

Again IMO your're too low, just under the tuff of hair IMO.

That is the exact hit I had on the buck I lost last year although 8 or so inches more forward and maybe a touch higher on the entrance.

What did the arrow look like? Buckeye

Any one question the marks on the bucks neck?

I don't know if this will show up, but here is what the approximate trajectory of the arrow was.

Apparently they do from time to time. As I mentioned in my previous thread there have been documented cases where deer were shot and during gutting prior wounds that had healed in the GI tract were found. It's obviously the exception, but it can and does happen.

Here is some food for thought as well. Rob mentioned that his cousin hit a branch with the shot so who knows what kind of angle that arrow hit the deer at and what it did once it hitthe deer. An arrow with improper flight will do some crazy things.

Believe me guys....I wanna understand this....but the wound is BELOW th etuft of hair on each side. Right? Wouldn't the arrow push it UP?

I can't think of any other way than to put a line going into the entrace wound and a line coming out (on the same line) and looking at it like that.....if you're going to do this exercise objectively.

Put your line (on whatever line you think it is) going into the entrance hole (below the tuft) and coming out of the exit hole (again...below the tuft).

Do it in 3D.

Granted....and point conceded....but look where the exit wound is. We can forget about the spine as far as I'm concerned. We all know how we feel on that.

Will this deer live? What %-age of chance would YOU give him?

Fat and some meat..... Next to no blood. Rybo saw the arrow as well.

Now does that look like the exit wound on that deer? Can someone transpose the angle over the photo?

Look how LOW this exit wound is.