Yes my experience is at least weekly and spanning over a quarter of a century. Sometimes 2-3 times in a day. I use multiple different paralytics, with succinyl choline (anectine) being the first line. The mechanism of action is the main problem with the tales of paralyzing a deer in a hunting situation. A few old tales of hunters who used them bragging about the efficacy is hard for me to buy. The blood carrying the medication has to be carried back to the heart (in the veins…. not being distributed to the muscles at all) and then pumped back out via the arteries. The anectine works by paralyzing the diaphragm, thus stopping the breathing of a deer. High doses will paralyze skeletal muscle but is severly slowed via intamuscular injection. Studies have shown a deer can run 85-120 seconds with just the oxygen already in its blood. An anectine injection intramuscular will take about a minute to have onset of action (best case scenario) So now you have a deer running 145-180 seconds. Deer can run at about 35mph (about 15 meters per second) Hard to believe a deer will only go the reported 20 yards in that time. An itramuscular shot works by creating a pocket of medication to be absorbed. That medicine has to be in a form that can be readily absorbed. Powder is not the most easily absorbed. Bleeding from a pass through shot, which most of our high powered bows will create, will serve to evacuate the medicine from the wound. If MS is the new proving grounds, surely some evidence rather than word of mouth exists. This isnt the movies where being shot with a medication immediately drops the target. Dexter is fake. Even being placed immediately into the vein, it wont immediately paralyze the subject. Passing through the chest cavity will not provide much absorption at all. Yes i know “deer are more sensitive ”. That is why dosing is different. The medication is weight based in humans. Humans are getting a higher dose. Its just not going to make a bow stop a deer like a gun. Not much point in getting too worked up over it. Its been outlawed for years in most places and likely to remain that way.
Ive attached a picture of my homemade Pod arrow, I shoot it with a rubberband and two paper clips. Dropped a 140” mule deer in eastern KY this morning with it. It never took a step. I dont have any video though. But its better than a well placed shot any day!
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