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When I checked my traps this morning I noticed the landowner's buddy from work was hunting the farm (saw his truck), so I walked in instead of taking the tractor and checked the (empty
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He shoots a Horton 175# crossbow and carbon arrows with a 3 blade replacable blade head (not sure of the brand), but the arrow was only in her about 6 -8" deep. He said the thought the arrow might have hit a small tree limb and deflected slightly, but the actual hit was right where I would have put it. Slightly high and to the rear on a deer quartering away and below him (he was in my 15' ladder stand) at about 25 yards. He is the type to get a bit excited when the time to pull the trigger arrives, and I never did get a good answer on where exactly he was aiming, but I have a feeling it was - at the deer!
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We pulled the arrow and drug her about 60 yards to the creek bed to field dress her. We let him do the field dressing, but I showed him (I've seen him work before
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I had him work slowly when he got to the diaghpram so I could see the lungs & heart. The arrow got one lung and penetrated the top of the heart, but did not exit it.
I guess the arrow could shed enough velocity/energy if it hit a limb to retard penetration, but I've never seen one from any crossbow penetrate so little with a fixed blade broadhead. I had an expandable open in flight once and stop on a shoulder bone when it flew off course (didn't do much damage, the deer was seen again the next day), but this one only hit a rib on it's way in.
I'd say he was very fortunate to get this deer so easily!