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DC:
I've wondered about this and OO's post http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,61728.0.html
 brought it up. He showed a deer that had been shot through the heart and yet still ran 40yds. I've seen a few stories of deer that got hit by the arrow, walked a few feet, and fell over dead. Any ideas why some would run and some wouldn't?

PEARL DRUMS:
Heart shot deer always run a bit, double lung deer can fall over quickly at times. Keep in mind a deer can run 50-100 yards in 3-4 seconds with no heart or lung functions. Most good hits are over 10 seconds or less.

osage outlaw:
Deer can react different to being shot.  Both of the ones I killed this year bolted as soon as they were hit.  They went on a dead straight run and dropped about 40 yards away.  I guess the sudden burst of adrenaline is what causes them to run a short distance.  My first self bow kill was a buck that I shot in the heart with a stone point.  When my arrow hit, the deer flinched and looked around.  He continued walking up the hill like nothing was wrong.  He had no idea that an arrow was sticking through his heart.  After a short distance he started to wobble and then tried to run.  That was an unusual reaction from my experiences.  When I hit one in the heart/lungs, they normally take off in a straight line and crash through brush or whatever gets in there way.  If the shot is less than perfect a deer will find a trail and stick with it.  This is just my observations from 25 years of putting meat in the freezer.  My hunting area is thickly wooded hills with some hay fields.  Maybe deer react different with other terrains. 

BowEd:
Most times they run.Some farther then others.I found to hit them completely relaxed is best.I hunt thick vegetated areas also.Had the same experience as Clint with an eight point too.A pass through ground level from a blind.The buck just hopped once and continued just walking away slowly.It was confusing a bit.I usually watch exactly where the fletching disappears and this time it disappeared completely quickly.I thought I might have missed.Things happen fast.I waited and waited saying to myself there's no way I could have missed since it was around an eight yard shot.I finally went out and looked at the crime scene after around an hour.I found my arrow 30 feet beyond the deer red from tip to tip.I found him 40 yards away later after following a blood trail on both sides of his tracks.
This is what I like about quiet self bows.A deer gets stung and bumped by many things as walks along.A well placed arrow from a good quiet selfbow with a very sharp broad head could feel no more upsetting then getting stung by a big bee or getting poked by a sharp stick for all they know since they have no idea it came from the bowhunter.They don't realize they are dieing from blood loss far as I'm concerned in my opinion and really can't do anything about it.

DC:
Is it possible that the ones that run actually hear the arrow leave the bow but it takes a split second to tense up and start running and by that time the arrow is there. So they are in running mode as the arrow hits and it looks to the hunter like the deer ran as it was hit. The ones that don't hear the arrow just keep on walking like nothing happened.

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