Your right, it can be done as the record books show lots of the Big Bears taken with the bow. Don't think for a nano second that the same story does not apply to many rifle hunters. Bow hunters don't have a corner on missed shots ot things gone astray. There are times when things don't go right regardless of what you hunt with. Thats part of hunting and one can accept it or find a safer sport. Sometimes the bear even wins. Could that be why some game is considered dangerous game?I am not a bow hunter but elephants and every other species of game animal on earth has been harvested with the bow. Long before anyone ever heard of a rifle.