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So the buck I shot last Friday evening was quartered to me pretty hard. He also came in at an angle that I had to shoot off my weak side. I'm left eye dominant so shoot off my left shoulder. He came in hard to my left where I couldn't get my body positioned to shoot so I shot off my right shoulder. It's about a 70 yd shot and he drops right there. He's on the ground. White belly showing and right front leg sticking straight up in the air. I'm now able to position myself and get on him with my strong eye and can see he is still breathing so I put it right on his heart and squeeze another one off. His leg drops and I can't see him breathing anymore. After all this I walk back home grab my oldest son and 4 wheeler to get him out. Look all over the deer and there is only one bullet hole where I made the second shot. Processor calls me today and said he only found one hole where I shot him when he was laying down. Either way he's dead but seems like I got really lucky. What would cause him to drop like that if he wasn't hit?
 
If you hit his antler, it could knock him unconscious temporarily. Congratulations on following up your shot. That's something some hunters wouldn't have done.

I shot a buck once that seemed to have no bullet hole but there he was dead. I had to pick him up and shake him before a drop of blood came out of his neck.
 
Well he did have a busted G2 😀😀. I'm kidding that tine has been broken for a couple weeks now. I couldn't even see his head at the first shot just his from his shoulder back. A friend of mine shot one with a 300 mad several years back and just grazed the brisket but somehow it killed him graveyard dead
 
I hunted with a guy that shot one with a 12 ga slug that hit between the antlers and never penetrated the skull. We always said he was just knocked out and he killed him when he field dressed him.
 
Was it a spike? 🤔

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3 years ago I was trying to shoot a buck in the head but it actually was through the ear and he dropped in his tracks, did the last kick dance just like a dead one. A few minutes later he jumped up and drunkenly ran off and I didn't get another shot.
After a crazy couple hours of me tracking this " wounded animal" I had to stop tracking because of private property.
A friend took him the next year with a perfectly healthy ear that had been professionally pierced!
I got drummed horribly for saying I knocked him down and didn't find a drop blood.
 
vanleerbuckbuster said:
So the buck I shot last Friday evening was quartered to me pretty hard. He also came in at an angle that I had to shoot off my weak side. I'm left eye dominant so shoot off my left shoulder. He came in hard to my left where I couldn't get my body positioned to shoot so I shot off my right shoulder. It's about a 70 yd shot and he drops right there. He's on the ground. White belly showing and right front leg sticking straight up in the air. I'm now able to position myself and get on him with my strong eye and can see he is still breathing so I put it right on his heart and squeeze another one off. His leg drops and I can't see him breathing anymore. After all this I walk back home grab my oldest son and 4 wheeler to get him out. Look all over the deer and there is only one bullet hole where I made the second shot. Processor calls me today and said he only found one hole where I shot him when he was laying down. Either way he's dead but seems like I got really lucky. What would cause him to drop like that if he wasn't hit?
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Shot one once and like to never found buljet hole
He dropped immediately. Finally, after continuing to lok, i found where the bullet went through the nap of the neck. I mean..a 1/4" higher, it would have been a clean miss. The bullet didn't even expand. Clean hole. Shock of the bullet killed him dead.
 

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