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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5512535" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>One of the bucks I killed this year had a healing hole in its high shoulder that had closed up but still had puss gummed up on it. The exit was a nickel size hole behind opposite shoulder that had yet to close up. Best I could tell it was a several weeks or months old wound. When I gutted him both lungs were half disintegrated, and my arrow hit liver. Somebody made a perfect double lung hit and he survived. </p><p></p><p>Upon butchering him I found another broadhead with about 4" of broken arrow encased in a tumor inside the opposite shoulder of his recent wound. It was at least a year or more old. </p><p></p><p>As if that wasn't enough, while taxidermist and I were camping him out for mount we found a broken antler tip stick in the top of his skull but no wound in the flesh. So that had been there at least a year. </p><p></p><p>Two hunters before me had made "lethal" shots on that buck, and another buck had pierced his skull. Yet there he was alive and well for me to hunt. Point being sometimes they simply refuse to die. Doesn't mean you messed up and likely nothing you could have done differently to change it. I hope you find him, but don't beat yourself up if you don't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5512535, member: 20583"] One of the bucks I killed this year had a healing hole in its high shoulder that had closed up but still had puss gummed up on it. The exit was a nickel size hole behind opposite shoulder that had yet to close up. Best I could tell it was a several weeks or months old wound. When I gutted him both lungs were half disintegrated, and my arrow hit liver. Somebody made a perfect double lung hit and he survived. Upon butchering him I found another broadhead with about 4" of broken arrow encased in a tumor inside the opposite shoulder of his recent wound. It was at least a year or more old. As if that wasn't enough, while taxidermist and I were camping him out for mount we found a broken antler tip stick in the top of his skull but no wound in the flesh. So that had been there at least a year. Two hunters before me had made "lethal" shots on that buck, and another buck had pierced his skull. Yet there he was alive and well for me to hunt. Point being sometimes they simply refuse to die. Doesn't mean you messed up and likely nothing you could have done differently to change it. I hope you find him, but don't beat yourself up if you don't. [/QUOTE]
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