Poor guy. Hate to see that but it comes with the territory. Hopefully he can be harvested.

Man, it's amazing what they can deal with. It would be pretty neat if you could find out who made that shot.

I was trying to figure out the shot too. We just moved into this area to hunt this year. We've hunted it in the past, just not the past couple of years. I've never really known anyone to hunt it other than just a random guy or two that walks around after work or something. I guess one of them got lucky. I think it's a shoulder shot. A few years ago I shot a big buck and on its way to the deer, my arrow hit a limb and the arrow went straight into its shoulder. The arrow probably only went in an inch or so, it hit straight bone. My buddy Dave saw it the next morning following a doe, arrow in side. About a month later, the people who live at the bottom of the hill took a picture of the beast out in their yard around 10pm one night, arrow gone, wound almost healed, and deer doing fine. Other than infection setting up, I don't think that arrow is affecting the deer at all. That's just me personally though. Crazy any way you look at it though.

 That buck will go close to 170 What a stud!!!

He's a good one for sure, I'd guess the drop tine buck near 150ish, the angle is deceptive for guessing his score.  Maybe even 160 gross, great deer man.

I think, by judging the angle of the arrow, that the shot was a sharp quarting away shot that is not very deep in the deer, it looks high on the body, may be high shoulder shot that is wedged under the shoulder blade, clipped the front of the chest maybe, or stuck in the lower neck, via high shoulder.  Weird, and man those things are tough.

I wish I would've had that happen with mine. I've only ever hit shoulder once, and that was the buck I told about in the above post. I shot it with a Hoyt Intec so I know the bow shot hard enough to penetrate, deer are just tough. Trust me, there is something in there that if you hit it, it will make a wierd pop sound and your arrow will not penetrate any at all.

I've shot deer before and had the knocks come off.