Congrats on the buck - and nice treestand, by the way. I really like those Summits.

It's not necessarily a bad shot if you can put 20-25" of shaft up through the quarters, through the guts, and into the chest cavity. It won't be a clean kill, and might make you second-guess yourself, but they usually don't go very far.

When I was a kid, I had a smallish doequartering hard away, and being the anxiousyoungster that I was, Iflung the arrow through the rear flank, and into the guts/liver. The whole arrow was inside of the deer when I found it. I don't thinkshe went 10 yards before piling up. Ugly but effective.