I shot a big 6 point a few years ago that that had been shot in the front leg. It was cut to the bone and he was limping real bad. My dad shot a small 7 point 2 years ago that some gun hunter had tried a frontal shot on. It went between the front legs and hit the back leg. Was just a small price of skin holding it on and the deer was falling down. Some people don't need to be hunting!
the 10 I harvested in Oct had a bum front leg, tore up rib cage, and when we skinned it, the spine had an older injury... kindda like it possibly got rocked when it crossed the highway ....