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Originally Posted by Tracker34
I had a similar experience. I had shot a spike buck with my 32 special a while back. He was a little more than quartering away with his head down. Shooting down hill. The 170 gr flat nose hit just behind the last rib, travelled up the body cavity and lodge in the hide about half way up it's neck. When I dressed it out, there was no blood or visible damage to the internal organs and hit no bone. The deer dropped instantly and didn't move. What killed it? Not blood loss. I think that dumping every ounce of that bullets energy into the deers body was enough to kill it.
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Pretty hard for a bullet to travel that distance without putting a hole in the diaphragm or lungs....both of which could easily be fatal. I'd believe that long before believing that it was "shocked" to death. No doubt there may have been some hydrodynamic surge that interupted the nervous system but I think death could still easily be attributed to a hole.