"Drop or Run aways and Drop"

[BobW]

My hunting partner, and fellow TG'r (BBassi), last year took a deer with a stone point.  His deer dropped in its place, and he can't yet understand why as it was a typical chest cavity hit (dlung/heart).  That is the only one I am aware of that fell on the spot without a spine/head shot.

Walk/run then fall.....that is opinion

BobW

[Jake]

The only deer I have had drop on the spot from an arrow were somehow hit in hte spine.  However since I started using single bevel BH's....mostly Grizzleys sharpened to s shaving edge.  My recovery distance has been almost nill.  Watching most drop or at least go into a death writh before going out of sight.  Never had a perfect doule lung drop with an arrow.

[Ray Hammond]

Mike,
with all due respect to your campmate,if he thinks deer that are double lunged drop instantly he doesn't know anything about bowhunting.

The only way a deer drops instantly is if its shot in the spine..and then it isn't always dead,just paralyzed to some extent-partially or full..depending on penetration into the spine.

An arrow kills by collapsing lungs..that doesn't make a deer pass out instantly..it takes time, as you well know.

[legends1]

I agree,Spine shot yes.Lung shot run and drop.
Mike, do I know who your talking about?

[Jim Parsell]

Run and drop  !!!!  It even makes a difference as to wether or not the deer is inhaling or exhaling at the time of a double lung hit..  If he is inhaling, he can go further, exhaling,not as far.....  Jim