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Old October 2, 2006, 07:17 PM   #8
Scorch
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The fermentation you are talking about happens inside the muscles, producing lactic acid as a byproduct, just like when you climb a mountain. It's lactic acid that makes your muscles sore. Fermentation works, but very slowly, and in warm-blooded animals it just supplements metabolic oxygen requirements. There is not enough energy produced to sustain an animal, especially one that has been double-lung shot.

When an animal is injured (shot), the first response is usually a parasympathetic response ("fight or flight" response along with copious adrenaline release), along with a corresponding increase in heart rate (using even more oxygen). If the animal has been lung-shot, the CNS will quickly give out due to hypoxia (oxygen levels being too low) within a short time (typically about 5-10 sec), and at that point, it doesn't matter anymore. With the CNS going, equilibrium goes, animal falls over, then suffocates.

However, in 5 seconds, that deer can cover 100-150 yds into the ugliest, nastiest stuff it can find, so keep an eye on it. Or it might just stand there with a perplexed look on its face until it gets woozy and topples over.
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