Not necessarily Christine, I shot a 240# buck straight through the spine w/ a 70# bow (IBO 305) and a 450gr arrow. Shot another maimed deer (probably 150# deer) bedded down facing away from me using a similar set-up (IBO 316) and punched right through the spine into the vitals, arrow stuck in the ground But I agree, he should be fine as long as he doesn't get any major infection.
I've busted through a spine with much less than 40 ft pounds. That deer is alive because the angle of the shot is above the spinal cord and spinal column. That's what I meant. A more powerful bow might have blown through the spinous processes but it still wouldn't have put the deer down. The hit and angle of the shot is just too high.
Gotcha, and after I posted that, I got to thinking that was probably what you meant.... Sometimes reading limits ones' ability to decipher what specifically one was saying.
Right on. A cousin of mine use to shoot a compound at 90 pounds. He was shooting heavy aluminum arrows out of It. Here about 10 years ago he hit a good size buck high and In the spine. Arrow didn't penetrate much and the deer lived. 2 years later he shot this same buck again not knowing It was the same one. He was skinning his deer out when all of a sudden there's his 3 blade muzzy wedged In the spine from 2 years ago. I think If you were to hit In between the vertebra's you may have a chance of going through but his broadhead was directly onto the vertebrae.
