How many main arteries/veins are there in the neck of a whitetail. A good freind of mine shot a doe last year. Arrow was tipped with a g5 Striker, shot was 23 yards dead broadside. He had to turn around and shoot behind the tree he was in and he said the arrow just barely clipped a small twig. He saw the arrow wobble a little bit and it went through the neck of the doe. I helped him track it and good grief there was a very thick blood trail. Nothing squirting on trees or anything like that but it was a very thick trail along the ground. He went 40 yards and died. Is it because he hit a main artery that it bled that much? I took my buck with a Striker but it was not the blood trail that thing had. I'm bored so I thought I'd ask :darkbeer:
flybub
Well...I am no deer biologist but I am a high school science teacher.
There are 2 major blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. The carotid artery allows oxygen rich blood to travel to the brain and the jugular vein allows oxygen depleted blood to travel back to the heart (where it is then sent to the lungs to pick up oxygen) and then redistributed throughout the body once again.
If you hit one of those blood vessels the deer will lose a tremendous amount of blood and die very quickly. Since the neck is relatively narrow, a wide cutting broadhead hitting the neck will likely strike one of those vessels or even severe the spinal chord (all vital hits).
However, miss those two major blood vessels or spinal chord and the deer will most likely survive.
I would never purposely aim for a deer's neck however. Much higher kill zone in the vitals behind the shoulder!
There are 2 major blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. The carotid artery allows oxygen rich blood to travel to the brain and the jugular vein allows oxygen depleted blood to travel back to the heart (where it is then sent to the lungs to pick up oxygen) and then redistributed throughout the body once again.
If you hit one of those blood vessels the deer will lose a tremendous amount of blood and die very quickly. Since the neck is relatively narrow, a wide cutting broadhead hitting the neck will likely strike one of those vessels or even severe the spinal chord (all vital hits).
However, miss those two major blood vessels or spinal chord and the deer will most likely survive.
I would never purposely aim for a deer's neck however. Much higher kill zone in the vitals behind the shoulder!
i had a shot go bad one time years ago on a doe. hit a branch i didnt see and the arrow went right through the front of her neck. she ran about 30 yards stoped and turned around to look back and that was it droped right there. the blood on the ground was amazing. but i would never try that shot on purpose.
good luck hitting it in the right spot! I neck shot a very nice buck about 3 years ago, and he only bled a couple spots, and quit.
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