My hunting buddy was hunting 70 to 100 yards behind me. We had this what appeared 4 -6 pt in full velvet running around between us. He shot around 35 yards and hit a twig or something. He shot it on the back end and it basically parrallized the deer. Almost to the main back of the meat. It would get up and throw itself 3 feet at time. It came down to me and I finished it off at 32 yards in the shoulder. What could he have hit that parralized it like that?

It sounds like he hit the spinal cord. Did you do an autopsy? Generally just after a kill is the best time to investigate what wounded the animal.

I'm glad to hear you were able to finnish the deer off and recover him.

Yes that is a spinal shot. The same thing happened to me. The good part with a spinal shot is that they can't run. You thus have the opportunity for a second shot

The first nice buck I killed with a bow was a spine shot. The angle was pretty steep and my shot went high. The buck literally dropped in his tracks.

I climbed down and went to the house to get the mule (deer cart) and came back an hour later expecting the buck to be dead, but to my surprise he was still very much alive!! It was the first day of bow season and the temps by 10am were already in the mid 80's with the high that day forcasted for around 90, so I had to do something quick. Although the buck could not get up and run, he could partially raise up on his front legs and move around. So, I came up behind him and grabbed the horns and cut his throat.

I know this is probably not the right way to handle this, but I needed to so something quick and get the meat cooled off b/f there was any spoilage. After I got him back to the barn and dressed out, I spent about $30 on ice just to get him to the check station and then to my buddy's walk in to hang for a few day's.

Its hard for me to believe there was spine back that far. Hey it worked. Miracle we retrieved it.

?? Spine runs from head to tail

smokpole
As long as the buck was living he wasn't going to start to spoil. It was good to end his suffering quickly though, but he wouldn't start spoiling still being alive.

smokpole, probably shoulda took your bow with you and finished hm that way instead of risking yourself by grabbing his antlers. You must have bigger balls than me. Looks like it ended alright though.

thats what id like to call a spinal TAP !!!

The backbone runs from head to tail, but the main nervous system, I am not too sure about.