Poor shot placement? Behind the shoulder blades and centered in the lung area. All that was there were ribs. It was light, I was in a ground blind with very good visablity with nothing between me and the doe. I saw the arrow hit not in the shoulder blades but behind them and in front of the guts so it wasn't a gut shot. I was using a hoyt set at 60 pounds with a 29 1/2 inch draw, I was less than 20 yards away on the ground, I hit dead center in the kill zone and the best I can figure is maybe when the broadhead tried to open it jammed between the ribs somehow and lost a lot of energy.

It's easy to say I'm full of it and the shot placement was bad, but I've taken too many deer and boar to be overly excited and have such a whacked image of where the arrow landed. I can't force anyone to believe me but I had a good enough view of the deer in the clear, plenty of light, and I was close and on the ground with a perfect broadside.

The arrow hit and stuck in the center of the lung area and didn't go in. Take it for what it's worth, and call me a crackpot, but if I was using the regular broadheads I normally use there would be a deer hanging from my hanging tree.