This big guy took a Rage 3 from a 70# bow through the sweet spot and is still standing a week later with the big mech head driven in his boiler room! 
I’d love to know how 
I have heard stories like this, but never saw a graphic…
its amazing how much room can be in there to not take out a lung, heart, or artery sometimes. Rare, but unfortunate that it does happen. I shot a buck twice a few years ago. Both bullets passed between lung/heart and didn’t put it down. Tracked it for 3-1/2 hours and finally put a termination shot into it. I was dumbfounded when I dressed it out and saw the 2 bullet paths. Last year, Olivia found a buck while we were checking traps that had an arrow sticking out of its neck. When the neighbor butchered it, found the broadhead was embedded in its vertebra. Why it didn’t paralyze it at minimum
That’s crazy!
Unreal, geez i hope someone got him
Wonder how long he will last with that working around in there. Poor fella, wonder if the head failed? I have killed 5 bucks in lifetime that had been shot once before. 2 had broadheads in them, one of which had 4″-5″ of arrow still attached, one had a complete slug pass through it’s neck, one had a .22 bullet lodged in it, and another had something pass through above it’s spine. 
I’m sure there’s a good number of wounded deer suffering at this very minute.
I’ve heard of this happening with 2 blade rages on hard quartering away shots….. With that said, it doesn’t surprise me that a 3 blade does it as well.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen with a fixed blade broadhead. I personally shot a doe above the lungs and below the spine. I tracked her for 4 hrs and only found 4 drops of blood, it sucked and I felt horrible. Long story short, she lived and I saw her 2 wks later with a spot in each side of her. It’s crazy how amazing deer can be??
It has happen to me twice. Once threw the dead zone looked perfect…little to no blood buddy shot the deer during the ML season. Second was a spine shot the deer dropped on the spot and started spinning in circles I should have taken the second shot from the tree, but climbed down to finish the her off and by the time I got down she was long gone some how made it to her feet and never looked back. It is amazing what these animals can and will do to survive. That is why I always give every effort I can to recover a deer sometimes its sleepless nights with hundreds of hard of tracking, but I feel I owe the animal that and will search till I no longer can.
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