Axis doe down
So I was lucky enough to get a shot on this old girl. After some of the recent threads on here about shot placement and the location and size of the vitals, I decided a shot thru the shoulder was in order. I hit her a little high in the right shoulder and it exited low ( elevated stand ) about an 2 1/2 inches maybe 3 inches in back of the left shoulder as she was slightly quarter to me. She ran about 60 yards and was down for the count. While cleaning her I was taking note to see what I could find out about their vitals.
1. Their lungs do appear smaller than a WT lung.
2. The vitals are farther forward ( or at least appear so ) than a WT.
3. Even with a hit that should have resulted in center punching both lungs, I did center punch the right lung, just barley caught the back of the left lung and got in to some gut somehow. ( could have just cut the esophagus, but I could smell that god awful gut shot smell. )
4. These things appear to be mostly guts, kind of like a goat.
So for what it is worth, that was my observation.
1. Their lungs do appear smaller than a WT lung.
2. The vitals are farther forward ( or at least appear so ) than a WT.
3. Even with a hit that should have resulted in center punching both lungs, I did center punch the right lung, just barley caught the back of the left lung and got in to some gut somehow. ( could have just cut the esophagus, but I could smell that god awful gut shot smell. )
4. These things appear to be mostly guts, kind of like a goat.
So for what it is worth, that was my observation.
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