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pianoman9701:
This is part of hunting. This elk will likely survive...or maybe not. A branch, a breeze, a crouch on the shot, a sight that was knocked getting out of the truck. Any shot, no matter the skill of the hunter, can end without quick death. Leave it up. If you don't like what you see, you're human. Either accept that and practice to be the best at what you do, or take a camera.

Born2late:
Years ago my dad killed a 5 pt bull over by forks. While we were cutting the meat off it we found a full length arrow from a frontal shot that was inside the chest cavity from the year before. It was encapsulated in a white tough fatty tissue so you couldn’t tell it was an arrow. Bull was totally healthy when he was killed. Some can and do recover. Others if they get an infection or the arrow keeps cutting as it moves will die. Happens with bullets probably just as much but we don’t see something hanging out of it.

bigdub257:

--- Quote from: Born2late on December 30, 2023, 06:02:16 PM ---Years ago my dad killed a 5 pt bull over by forks. While we were cutting the meat off it we found a full length arrow from a frontal shot that was inside the chest cavity from the year before. It was encapsulated in a white tough fatty tissue so you couldn’t tell it was an arrow. Bull was totally healthy when he was killed. Some can and do recover. Others if they get an infection or the arrow keeps cutting as it moves will die. Happens with bullets probably just as much but we don’t see something hanging out of it.

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Found the same exact thing in a bull my son shot with a rifle in Idaho a few years ago.  12" of broken off aluminum arrow buried straight into the chest.  Had no idea until we started butchering it. Amazingly tough animals.

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