An autopsy would have told the truth. Everything else is just speculation. I just saw a post from a trusted source that tracks wounded deer professionally. He had a buck hit in about the same spot. Tracked it until the blood ran out and then far enough to conclude that it likely wasn’t a fatal hit. The buck was shot through the lungs two weeks later. When cleaning the buck the could see the scar from the broadhead the heart still had about a 2” cut on the bottom of it but it didn’t enter any chambers. Things just happen and you were probably a half inch from from finding her dead in that first bed. A half inch the other way and she’d probably still be alive.
@ImThere i love big mechanicals. I guess the biggest downside to big mechanicals vs heavy coc fixed blades is you lose the art of trailing deer. All but one deer I put a 2” rage through fell in sight. The one I shoulder shot has since likely died of natural causes.
Now for guys like THP who are getting it done on the ground shooting head on and through light brush all I can say is it’s a low percentage shot. The percentages are probably better with a heavy, slow, small diameter, coc, single beveled, fairy dusted, heat seeking, core drilling, brush busting broadhead.
Just shoot what you’re comfortable with and know that no matter what your bow/arrow/broadhead setup, how much you practice, or how responsible you think you are you will lose some deer. Most of those losses will be user error. A few will fall into the category of “it happens”.
@ImThere i love big mechanicals. I guess the biggest downside to big mechanicals vs heavy coc fixed blades is you lose the art of trailing deer. All but one deer I put a 2” rage through fell in sight. The one I shoulder shot has since likely died of natural causes.
Now for guys like THP who are getting it done on the ground shooting head on and through light brush all I can say is it’s a low percentage shot. The percentages are probably better with a heavy, slow, small diameter, coc, single beveled, fairy dusted, heat seeking, core drilling, brush busting broadhead.
Just shoot what you’re comfortable with and know that no matter what your bow/arrow/broadhead setup, how much you practice, or how responsible you think you are you will lose some deer. Most of those losses will be user error. A few will fall into the category of “it happens”.