Another "Look how tough deer are"....thread

[haas0311]

They sure are brutes!

[jcso139]

better luck next time!

[Hill1970]

I shot one high like that years ago. I thought that it was a good shot. While I was waiting my 30 minutes to go find my deer, he showed back up eating corn at 20yds. I kept looking at him trying to figure out if it was the same deer or not. Finally I decided that it was the same deer, so I nocked another arrow and put it through both lungs. This time the deer crashed within sight. Once I got to the deer and checked the first shot, I noticed that it did nothing but cut through the backstraps.

[jathomas437]

You need to quieten that bow down some.

My dad had two deer duck his shot. We tightened up the poundage a little, added some string whiskers, and added some limbsavers to the limbs and its now stealth quiet.

[Deathrow Jethro]

They are truly some of the toughest...

[leasecommander]

Really a nice post with the story and pics, I think most of us have done the same thing, now I aim at the heart in case they try to duck the arrow and often it then catches the lungs, no, not always :-)

[txsteele]

Really cool pics, sorry he got away.

I'm at least glad that he did not die under a bush 300 yards away or something like that.

They are tough!!!

[Miki]

To hight and to far forward. Cool pictures.

[Lenny]

The dreaded "No man's land"!

[Texas Pride]

Great pics.

[Txnrog]

Pure muscle hit - think about it though - someone puts aclean 1 inch X thru one of your muscles (no arteries), and even without medical attention, you're not likely to die barring some odd complication - and we're pretty weak critters in comparison. They are tough, but wait till you find a broadhead sealed in scar tissue IN THE LUNG of an elk.

When we first started to allow bowhunters on our ranch, this was actually one thing that I actually used to convince my old man it was OK. I 100% believe that the survivability of a poor hit with an arrow is much much greater that a poor hit with a rifle.