The neck shot thread reminded me of a deer my cousin shot one time that still baffles both of us and wanted to run it by yall and get some opinions as to what happened. A few years ago I went deer hunting with my cousin. We decided that we were going to hunt together and that he would take the first shot. Shortly into the hunt a few doe step out, he chooses one and decides to take a neck shot on her....80-100 yard layup shot. Well, his shot placement wasn't perfect and the doe didn't even react as though she'd been shot. I thought he missed, he wasn't so sure so we went and checked it out. There was a little bit of hair that had been cut so we walked in the direction that she went and within 100 yards we could see her stone dead. When we got to the doe we were looking at her neck where the bullet hit and it was little more than a scratch in my opinion, no penetration to be sure as the bullet grazed her across the front of the neck leaving about a 2-3 inch mark that barely broke skin, no enterance or exit. There was almost no blood either. But, the fact remains that there she was, very much dead and a short distance from where she was shot. After skinning her there was no tissue damage other than where the bullet grazed her neck, I was sure we were going to find a wound channel where the bullet may have fragmented into the neck, but there was nothing. What the heck happened here?