Several years back a local kid shot a little fork horn in the head with a .44 magnum that was eating acorns close beneath the tree he was hunting from. He climbed down out of the tree and as he was admiring it's rack the deer came to and jerked loose from his grasp and ran off. Apparently his head shot had only knocked the deer unconscious.
I was hunting on an adjoining property several hundred away and killed it with a neck shot as it walked past beneath my tree stand. As I was checking the deer out I noticed the fresh head wound. The kid's bullet entered right at the base at the back of the deer's skull, completely missing the brain and exited out an eye socket taking the eyeball out on that side.
