Originally Posted by TrueGrit
There's a spot where you can shoot a deer just below the spine and above the lungs where the deer will survive. The high shoulder shot is the best kill shot unless you shoot 1"or 2" below the spine and 1" or 2" behind the shoulder.



Nope. Wives tale. There is no vacant space inside the body except inside the lungs.. If there was, the diaphragm and lungs wouldn’t work the way they do. If an arrow or bullet punctures the chest cavity, that leads to a “sucking chest wound” which then will usually collapses one or both lungs.


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