My most unique kill ever

[Mechslasher]

nice doe there ck!  how did the foreshafted tonkin perform after the shot?  did the foreshaft and the main shaft separate?  that purpleheart is some tough wood, you should be able to reuse the foreshaft.

[Littlefeather]

Cade, I've been looking for your contact info. I want to chat with you. These are the arrows you built me, correct????? Yes, the shaft and foreshaft seperated somewhere between impact and exit. I do believe that it would have exited without any problem but the foreshaft broke free before that happened. I know that the penetration was completely through to the skin on the opposite side of the deer from the impact side. The skin actually had a lump under it indicating the tip on the trade point. Upon opening the doe up, the broadhead point was against the ribs and the foreshaft was still in place with the purpleheart still in the channel through the lungs. It was a very interesting autopsy! Hell, this whole event was most unique from start to finish. Please email me@ [email protected]  Thanks! CK

[yleecoyote23]

"It was a very interesting autopsy! Hell, this whole event was most unique from start to finish."

It sure was Curtis!! Thanks for sharing it with us! I hope to meet ya sometime and see the skull in person!

[Terry Green]

Strange turn of events Curtis.....thanks for sharing.

Remember my Javie that wheeled on the shot and I slipped my arrow through the front of the chest....got on another group of javies the next day and the 1st one I shot was the one I'd shot the day before?

Remember Stoney's javie lying there with an indian head just above his nose?

I just heard a story today of a guy 'no zoning' a huge 9 pointer just under the spine and being slap tore up about it....and he killed that same buck 6 days later from another stand.

Truth is stranger than fiction.  

[Old Ways]

Wow. I just read this story for the first time. Thank you for posting it. It will be told to those I hunt with for years and years. Amazing story.

About that 3 point in the head question... I did shoot a buck in the skull one year with a snuffer. Knocked it out but after a couple minutes it came to and tried to run off. Fortunately I had already cut the juggler with my knife or it might have also carried a broadhead in the skull.

Thanks again for a great story and pics. Amazing

   Story of my head shot buck

[strick9]

Absolutely awe inspiring, Makes you forget the pains we all deal with, I always look to my chesapeake bay retriever for resilence and perserverance during painful times , We all need to remember that to survive you have to live. Would love to see the fawn buck she threw in the spring of 2006 You know he's gonna have some flair!

[DRR324]

Great story, and a happy ending!  Not to run off with the "one up" stories, mine doesn't compare- just an adition to the toughness of a whitetail.
Years ago I found the skull of a small buck.  I picked it up- and holy crap- a Rocky Mtn razor 3 blade was stuck in just below the burr.  It had penetrated about 3/16" into the brain cavity.  This is not what killed it however- the bone had regrown through each one of the blades!!  Must have been shot as a yearling, and carried that broadhead around all year...absolutely amazing survival from these tough critters!
Thanks for the story Curtis.

[BigMedicine]

Wouldn't have believed it without the pictures.  One of those campfire stories that gets built upon every year its told in camp, but this one has photographic evidence.  Unbelieveable...or, I guess believeable but far out!