>>64016985This is what I was saying about field point arrows. This shit happens often enough in the indigenous communities that white people who live there are genuinely familiar with the finer points (npi) of arrow injuries.
A field point/bullet point/target arrow will over penetrate, will only leave a 3cm wound channel, and importantly it seals its own wound channel. That's why these guys all still have the arrow in them, it's known that you don't remove the arrow.
If an arrow goes straight through your lung and out your back, that's not a sucking chest wound. You can walk around like that, just make shallow breaths, don't cough, lie on your good side so the blood doesn't fill the lung. Lungs have a huge volume so it's really very hard to fill one with blood. And even with one lung collapsed, you can survive depending on how far you are from surgery.
Bladder, intestines, stomach, requires surgery but generally not life threatening. Kidneys? You've got two. Liver? Liver is funny because it still works by % if sections are damaged, and an arrow won't damage much.
Field arrow very unlikely to strike an artery, even if it does the wound won't spray blood if you keep the arrow in.
I suppose the arrow just got lodged between this guys ribs and didn't strike him in the heart.
This might give you some appreciation for the skill in bow hunting and how likely it is that you wound an animal which just runs away with an arrow sticking out of it. Without the kinetic power to wind a target, the target can run away with a mortal wound.