We've had a couple of deer on my place get shot and survive. Two were later harvested. Bucks showed no indication in their gate or behavior that they had been previously shot. One had been shot through the neck with a 50-caliber maxiball. We trailed him for over a mile before losing the blood trail. He was shot three days later hot on the tail of an estrus doe. My daughter hit a doe high in the back with a 30-30. Knocked the doe flat, but after a few minutes, she got up and ran off. She disappeared for about a month, but then showed up feeding in food plots like nothing had happened. Huge exit wound above the spine. Another buck was hit with a 270 through the sternum. Got pictures of him later with a fist-sized hole at the bottom of his chest.
And although it wasn't one of us that made the shot, I killed a doe years ago that had an under-developed hip. Upon cleaning her I found a broadhead that had been shot from a high angle and had gone right down through her pelvis. The broadhead - blades intact - was lodged in her birth canal. Obviously, she had not had a fawn in a couple years, and I feel sorry for any buck that tried to breed her!
