Have you ever seen a big game animal pull an arrow out?

I have witnessed a javelina grab an arrow with its mouth and bite it in two while it was sticking in them.

I would bet that, in your case, that is just where the arrow happened to fall out. I just don't see a deer grabbing the arrow and pulling it out.

Bisch

[monterey]

I hit a huge jackrabbit with a Woodie tipped with bodkin.  Jack ran over the crest of a hill and I followed.  Not far over the top was the arrow in two pieces all chewed up.  There was no sign of the jack.

A couple hours later my partner found him dead deep into a bit of sage.  He had bandaged himself up pretty good, but there was no way he was going to survive the damage done by the three blade.

[hawkeye n pa]

Helped track a doe that had pulled the arrow out.  And have found a few wood arrows that had teeth marks back by the feathers and was just laying on the ground.  Going back along time ago in a heavily bowhunted area.

[mj seratt]

I shot a doe from about 8 yards on the ground.  She ducked, and the aluminum arrow hit her above the spine.  She bailed off a steep ridge, and I could hear her running until she came out of the woods at the bottom.  There was a pause, then heard her running again.  We found the feathered end of the shaft broken off about an inch in front of the fletches about where she stopped running.  This was completely out of the woods, so I don't think it broke off by hitting a tree.
As an aside, I seem to recall that the Herter's catalog claimed deer would pull arrows out with their teeth.

[Longtoke]

Originally posted by Tedd:
I even have a picture of one. This coyote got a hold of the cedar shaft but died so quickly he didn't get it pulled out. (the ground prevented a pass through      )

awesome pic, thanks for sharing!

[Hatrick]

Sometime around 1986-87 I made a poor shot on a fair sized 8 point buck. The Eskimo Zwickey/cedar shaft hit him in the hindquarters. I watched him run about 30 yards, stop, and pull that arrow out and drop it. I waited a bit and went over to find the shaft feathers up, point stuck lightly in the dirt, and teeth marks on the shaft. It had small bits of meat surrounding the braodhead. I felt sick that I had made such a poor shot. It was getting dark so I decided to go after him in the morning. I found him dead about 100 yards away the next morning. To this day I wish I would have marked and kept that arrow.

[Friend]

Have only witnessed a deer bite one in two.

[LC]

As a side note, not that I witnessed it personally but a story from a trad guy I believe undeniably saw the arrow enter full depth and bounce back out! Deer only went 70 yards after the blow out! Weird things happen such as animal turning after impact that can make anything possible!

[Sixby]

I had a large cow elk reach around and pull the arrow out of her side with two pulls. She then got really sick and reached up and grabbed a tree branch and held herself up to keep from going down . Finally she went down on her knees and then to her side and I sneaked in and got another shot into her and killed her. There was more to the story but I don't want to relate that part and honestly it make me think long and hard about wheather I wanted to continue to hunt anymore.
But next season I was ready to go.
God bless, Steve