Not necessarily true. I shot a doe three years ago, both lungs and clipped the heart and she ran 400 yards. Blood trail waist high on trees on both sides of where she ran. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think the biggest thing a new bowhunter needs to take away from this thread is that you need to be observant and error on the side of caution unless you are 100% sure your deer is down. Watch and listen after the shot. If you hear a hard crash and thrashing, most likely that is a heart/lung shot and your deer will be dead in short order. If you don't hear a crash, you need to be a bit more cautious and read the signs you get from what you saw and heard and add it the info you get from the arrow. I liver shot a buck once. I thought it was a pretty good shot but just slightly back. I watched him run off for 30 yards, then stop, look back, then walk another 10 yards into the edge of the timber. He proceeded to immediately bed down and I watched him lay there looking around and licking his wounds for close to an hour before I finally watched his head slowly fall down as if he had fallen asleep. I still gave him a little bit of time just to make sure he wasn't just asleep before I got down and headed over there. If I had just started up a track job on him after 30 minutes, I'm sure that I would have pushed him off the bed and may have never recovered. Luckily I was able to observe him the whole time from my stand so I didn't have any doubt when I got down.
