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Heart shot and survived.

hickslawns

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Amazingly tough animals. Coyotes are the only other animal I have hunted which are as tough.
 

Kaiser878

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Deer are unbelievably tough animals. My buddies dad shot this deer tuesday of gun season.... while gutting it I got a surprise. We later found out one of the locals across the road wounded him with a bow 3 weeks earlier.

Here's the kicker. This is a 9 inch chunk of arrow with a muzzy mx3... it was it his left lung. The lung was actually moosh and mostly fibrous tissue. It was basicly gone.... the deer didn't have a single mark on his body either where the arrow went in.

So does this count as a fixed blade malfunction?
 

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brock ratcliff

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They are resilient. It's amazing what they can take and just go on sometimes. Personally, I've made shots on deer and thought there was no way they would go far, only to lose them. Then again, others sometimes hit them in the strangest of places and they don't go 100 yds. :)
 

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Yep Brock I hit a limb one time and my arrow went in a bucks back leg and he just stood there.
When he went to walk he bucked a couple times a fell over dead.The arrow was still in him the fletching out one leg and broadhead the other.when we flipped hm over the bradhead had went right through his testicals.That explains why he didn't move.lol
 

hickslawns

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So Brian. . . You are basically saying he died because HE WANTED TO DIE! Can't blame him I guess. I am pretty attached to my testicles as well. Haha!

Artery hit I presume.