Good thinking on the follow up!    

GREAT JOB!!!!  

Way to go on the follow-up!  Gott'a love positive endings to good decisions!

I LIKE SNUFFERS THEY FLY GOOD THEY KILL GOOD AND I USE THEM BUT THIS YEAR I NOTICE THE SIDES WERE COLLAPSING MOST DEER I SHOOT ARE JUST100LB DOES OR SO. NOTHING HUGE GOOD CALL ON RUNNING HIM DOWN. PS THEY DIDENT COLLAPS EVERYTIME JUST ONCE BUT I WAS STILL SURPRISED  SEEYA NICE STORY THANKS ED.

Also if it was wood and weighed only around 550 or so, ya would not or may not have gotten to the lung. Congrats!! Shawn

Way to go Tim!! Unbelievable on the Snuffer, I've put a few of em thru critters and never seen anything like that either... Think I'd put it up for a conversation piece.      

way to go man

Nice job Tim.

Congrats!

Congrats!

Here's another pic of the Snuffer 160 cleaned up.  Now in fairness to this Snuffer, first off, I should have hit further back.  Second, it hit right at the shoulder joint, destroying the joint and sliding inside, totally shredding the inside of the shoulder.  I'd say Shawn is right.  Had it been on a wood shaft, the shaft probably would have broke right at the taper and I highly doubt enough energy would have been there to crush that head, push through, and get into the lung.
 


Here's the entrance.



Massive damage on the inside.




To top it all off, his right hind quarter was healing up from what was probably the result of being hit by a car sometime ago.  Now that's tough!

Wow iv put snuffers into all kinds of things including iron and stones and never had one even get close to that damaged.

congrats again    

This is just a guess, but maybe the snuffer got lodged in the shoulder joint and was twisted by the scapula and the humerus as the deer made the dash after it was hit.Just maybe. That is one unlucky deer but tough deer there,with all the injuries and all in its short life.Congrats n getting it though!!

Gil

       

Anything's possible.  Heck the shaft might have got jammed up hard off a tree as he ran and caused that damage to the head.  No way of knowing for sure.  Those Heritage shafts are bomb proof!

i was wondering the same thing Gil

ya for the money you can't beat the heritage shafts!! VERY tuff durable shafts

Grizzly, when you absolutely positively have to shoot clear through...

Good Hunting! Way to make a long one lung tracking job short by using woodsmanship and following your instincts on the quick follow up.

Good old fashioned draw weight got that deer, and the decision to follow instincts. We all have a little hound dog in us.    

After impact, there was enough push to get the head into soft stuff(lung). In my opinion, a wood shaft would have left that buck carrying more iron.

Thats good bowhunting right there...it ain`t over until your trimming meat!

Two weeks, and two tags. The holidays are over, but still time to celebrate!

Good hunting!

Good stuff Tim, congrats bud    

Nice to still be able to hunt at this time of year I bet       Well done!

Just for the sake of asking.....if those two arrows were shot in reverse order, do you think (in your opinion,cause we'll never really know)anything would have been different?