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Vanilla Killer

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Hey ever hit a deer in one lung and have it live? I believe I blew one lung out on a buck Saturday and he kept on running. I gave him enough time for a lung hit but never recovered. Any thoughts??? Feel like I've been kicked in the balls...VK
 
I could see the deer maybe living if it was an arrow through one lung, maybe, but not a slug hit. My Saturday buck was a one lung shot and he dropped in his tracks.
 
Feel like I've been kicked in the balls...VK
I know the feeling:( Unfortunatly I experienced that this year. Not fun[confusedagain]In my opinion they will not survive with one lung. It may take them a bit longer, especially if it was only a knick but they will eventually expire.
 
dead deer...a deer can go along way with a one lung hit
 
ask deer assassin on here he got a one lunger we went to look for it and jumped it twice. backed out waited a couple of hours started the track again jumped him again and it must been all he could muster because we found him 5 minutes later dead
 
That's what i was going to say. How do you know you hit a lung if the deer is still alive. Many of the deer I have killed with the bow have fallen from a one lung hit.
 
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Examine[confused] I can say this, the arrow was high on the right and low on the left chest exiting. He circled my tree and coughed as he headed off. When he coughed the arrow blew out. He went about 100yrds and stopped looked back. Back leg stepped funny then bolted[sad] never to be seen again.....
 
Did the blood have little bubbles in it? A lung hit will almost always have bubbles in the blood. Did you run out of blood? A deer that is hit in one lung usually will expire within 150 yards.
 
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The end of the arrow 5 inches’ or so had bright red blood with bubbles. Blood ran out @ aprox 200 yards I’d say. I’ve hit many deer in the lungs and had them drop within sight. This one has me stumped. Even if I didn’t hit lung I blew two holes in his chest. This should have collapsed both his lungs.
 
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