Maximum short range effectiveness on deer?

[montana]

Montana, interesting video. Thanks. But I'd probably want to clarify the difference between shock waves traveling through the vascular system vs. the nervous system.

I am still convinced by physiologists that say it's impossible for that kind of shock to travel as a wave through the blood in the vein and artery tubes such that a hit to your chest will explode your brain.

However, I seem to remember that the solar plexis, under the breastbone, is kind of a nerve hub and a strong blow to that region can shock the system and bring a guy to his knees. That makes sense to me, and, by extension, a game animal can be shocked or "knocked out" when the pressure of the temporary cavity shocks the spinal cord. This may not necessarily kill the animal, but it quickly bleeds out and dies WHILE it's unconscious from the nervous system shock.

So, an animal Dropping Right There is basically an animal knocked out from nervous system shock blasted by the temporary cavity, but is soon to bleed out in due course and permanently lose consciousness when the brain is starved for oxygen. Some animals "knocked out" in this way get back up and run off if there's no hole in a vital area, others, hit better and bleeding out, never get back up.

Just a theory. . . .

John

Makes sense to me.