Originally Posted by navlav8r
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.

I beg to differ from my experiences, I've shot deer there and killed deer that have been shot there by other hunters with both gun and bow. Most of the time it'll knock them down and then it's off to the races. I've also heard deer blow air out of their chest cavity that sounded like they were blowing at a hunter or varmint, how is that possible with a collapsed lung or two?.

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