Edited: I had confused myself when reading the post and didn't think it through too clearly. For some reason I was thinking about the wind pipe and not the esophagus. A PM from waiting cleared my thinking.

On that note.....

The last day of WI season, Sunday, my nephew made a "perfect" shot on a doe. But on the arrow there was only a little slime. 100 yards and a great blood trail later we found her. He hit her right behind the shoulder, but low. The arrow caught the end of the liver and "the guts." At first I thought it was the stomach and never really looked at it much more than that. After reading this post and thinking a little more, he actually may have hit the esophagus and not the stomach or guts.

I believe that waitings shot was probably about the same and he nicked the liver as well, hence the good blood.