Looks as if the deer was shot while walking directly at the shooter. There' s several posts about this type of shot and whether to take it or not. This supports my opinion in there being no shot on a head-on or straight-away deer. Not every deer is going to survive with a broadhead through one of his lungs, but it goes to show you - this is not a good shot to take. If the deer hadn' t of survived, it would have gone a considerble distance anyway.

perhaps I need to squash my inner skeptic, but that doesn' t even look like a deer skeleton to me.

thanks for posting, that is truly incredible

It looks a little fishy to me also. It almost looks like somebody used wood glue and glued that arrow into place.

If it is a real picture, then that is pretty amazing, but, it looks a little too strange for me.

That' s the wierdest looking backbone of deer I have ever seen? Has anyone else noted that the broadhead looks brand new?

I agree - the spine looks prehistoric. I' m no skeletal expert on whitetail deer, but the back bones look way too tall. In perspective of the arrow, the vertabraes would be close to 8" tall putting the spine between the deer' s lungs. Wierd.

Wow, that is amazing!

The more often I look at it, the less I believe it. I don' t think that is a deer skeleton at all, and I don' t believe a deer can survive with a broadhead stuck in it' s lung. It would slice with every breath and movement. I can imagine a lung wound healing over if it isn' t too bad, but not with the broadhead remaining in the lung.

Sorry, folks, I just don' t believe this picture is legitimate. It just doesn' t look genuine and this could be easily faked. I don' t think a deer could survive this placement, simply because the arrow would have been bouncing around in the chest cavity.

Aluminum doesn' t bond to bone. This is why they use metal to fabricate bone plates, pins and screws. Metal is inert. The shaft has been hot glued to the bone, IMO. Were it fused there there would be a much larger callous where the arrow meets the bone. Sorry, I don' t buy this one either. I would need to see the skeleton in person.