The "dead spot" theory revisited
10-11-2006, 07:18 PM
#22
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Simpsonville, SC
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RE: The "dead spot" theory revisited
What are you talking about deflected. If the picture is real..>That arrow is burried up to the fletching on an angle that would make that a dead deer walking. If it deflected, that fletching should be be way up.
He's probaly sitting back laughing at people debating it. I'm laughing with him.
He's probaly sitting back laughing at people debating it. I'm laughing with him.
10-12-2006, 08:28 AM
#25
Giant Nontypical
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RE: The "dead spot" theory revisited
I'd like to see the video not a still from it. But at any rate the wound seems to be healed in teh second picture. As I'm understadning the story, it seems like this took place all this season. Doesn't add up to me.
Anyway there is no void. A lot of hunters confuse this "void" with a shot above the spine. (of course not in this case).
Believe it or not, the belowdeer was reported to be spined (don't let the front leg forward cloud your judgement, it was hit further forward then it looks because of the front leg), I believe though that it was the lower part of the spine:
Take a look at this skeleton so see how low the spine comes down in the forward portion of the deer and remember that there is about an inch of meat past the upper part of the skeleton:
Anyway there is no void. A lot of hunters confuse this "void" with a shot above the spine. (of course not in this case).
Believe it or not, the belowdeer was reported to be spined (don't let the front leg forward cloud your judgement, it was hit further forward then it looks because of the front leg), I believe though that it was the lower part of the spine:
Take a look at this skeleton so see how low the spine comes down in the forward portion of the deer and remember that there is about an inch of meat past the upper part of the skeleton:
10-12-2006, 11:06 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,482
RE: The "dead spot" theory revisited
First of all, I agree with some others- given the steep angle of the shot, the hit looks to be too low. Second, I also agree that 1 lung-shot deer can live for a long time, or even survive the hit completely.
In my experience, only a double-lung hit, heart shot or hit on a major artery will anchor a deer quickly 100% of the time. I've recovered 1-lunged deer, but I've also watched a fair share of them run off, never to be seen again.
One hunting experience of mine really enforced by belief that 1 lung hits aren't lethal 100% of the time. 2 years ago,a bowhunter hit a huge 12-pointer that ran off onto our property. He came and talked to us and asked us to keep an eye out for it. Later, during gun season (about 6 weeks later) a gun hunter shot that buck. The original bowhunter identified it as the same deer, and the part of the arrow was found lodged in its chest- in 1 lung, but not the other. No other vital organs or major arteries were hit. The archer thought it looked like a perfect hit, but because the angle of the shot, it barely missed the second lung. After 6 weeks, the deer had lost some weight and didn't look 100% healthy, but was still alive.
Just because you shoot a deer through the chest, it doesn't always mean that you're going to find the deer dead 50 yards away. Deer are very tough animals, and the only way to be sure 100% of the time of anchoring a deer is putting a good, sharp, broadhead through BOTH lungs, the heart or a major artery.
In my experience, only a double-lung hit, heart shot or hit on a major artery will anchor a deer quickly 100% of the time. I've recovered 1-lunged deer, but I've also watched a fair share of them run off, never to be seen again.
One hunting experience of mine really enforced by belief that 1 lung hits aren't lethal 100% of the time. 2 years ago,a bowhunter hit a huge 12-pointer that ran off onto our property. He came and talked to us and asked us to keep an eye out for it. Later, during gun season (about 6 weeks later) a gun hunter shot that buck. The original bowhunter identified it as the same deer, and the part of the arrow was found lodged in its chest- in 1 lung, but not the other. No other vital organs or major arteries were hit. The archer thought it looked like a perfect hit, but because the angle of the shot, it barely missed the second lung. After 6 weeks, the deer had lost some weight and didn't look 100% healthy, but was still alive.
Just because you shoot a deer through the chest, it doesn't always mean that you're going to find the deer dead 50 yards away. Deer are very tough animals, and the only way to be sure 100% of the time of anchoring a deer is putting a good, sharp, broadhead through BOTH lungs, the heart or a major artery.
10-12-2006, 11:11 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: YewNork
Posts: 1,794
RE: The "dead spot" theory revisited
its not fake, and even if it is, i have seen deer get shot in a lung and live, heck on tv i saw a duck get shoot through the head with an arrow and it lived... its possible wether thats fake or not.
