Whitetail Deer
The Truth About “The Void” in a Deer’s Chest
No biologist, veterinarian, or medical professional believes the popular bowhunting claim that deer have dead space high in their chest.
That void, it’s said, lets a broadhead pass through with little harm to the deer if it just happens to exhale as the arrow hits, supposedly opening the space farther. MeatEater’s “consulting physician,” Dr. Alan Lazzara, calls that myth “deer hunting’s magic-bullet theory” for explaining unrecovered deer.
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