About 6 or 7 years ago I shot a doe at close range as she trotted out of some head high grass onto the skid trail I was on. At the shot she hit the ground on her side and let out a bleat and then was dead still. There were other deer coming so I chambered another 150 gr BT in my 30-06 AI and looked over to the side. I heard a scuffling sound and turned back to look back at the doe and she was gone! There was no blood or hair at the spot she fell, and we tramped around in the high grass for a couple hours with no sign of her. My crosshairs were on her chest when I pulled the trigger, so I think it must have been a hit somewhere high in the vicinity of the spine that stunned the deer. Probably broke a spinous process.
Another guy was watching the whole thing from a treestand on a hill about 200 yds behind me. He thought the doe was dead as a hammer, too.
