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The only suggestion I have is to keep livin' the way your livin' because someone is liking what you are doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rack-Attack, you looked at the heart but you did not say whether or not the sack that surrounds the heart was intact when to preformed your field autopsy?
Only guessing but I' d venture that you lacerated the sack that surronds the heart or some veins or arteries(http://www.kerrlake.com/deer/white2.htm......scroll down to circulation) that are below and forward of the heart.
A Deer can travel some distance as long as it is getting some oxygen to the muscle. Lost of blood depletes the carring vehicle but as long as the lungs are still functioning it can travel a good didtance. It all depend on the rate of blood loss. Once the blood isn' t there to carry the oxygen it crashes.
Just a thought.

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Yeh.... some guys have all the luck.[:' (][&:][&:][:-] We' ve hit a few low. Len hit one this year real low and a little forward. He cut the artery off to the front leg. Although... the deer went about 500 yards.[:o] THe big 10 point the guest at our place shot was also shot low low. He had one blade just put a little slit in the bottom of the heart. I mean it just barely laid it open but he bled like a stuck pig. He went about 300-400 yards. He did go through the back of both shoulders but didn' t hit anything major there. Just a little nick in the bottom of the heart. The arrow barely cut through the sternum into the chest cavity. You name it... we' ve had it happen.

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Thanks guys - I think logs link nailed it down with his link

There are two large veins running right over the sternum - I must of hit them.:D

Yea I was leaning towards that theory also until Logs knocked me back to reality:D

You aint kidding[:-]