Dave, try this scenario on for size. You wait and wait and wait and finally get that perfect broadside shot you must havewithlight arrows. Now,you draw and shoot but the animal turns at the exact instant you release. That perfect broadside shot turnsintobutt shot. The arrow hits in the hip and makes heavy contact - not a direct hit, just heavy contact - with the pelvic bone. Which is more likely to penetrate on through the paunch and into the chest cavity. A 350 gn arrow or a 450 gn arrow? Or a 700 gn arrow for that matter?

A friend of mine - not a traditional shooter, by the way -had this exact thing happened to him, only he was hunting black bear.Fortunately, he was using 2219's, probably in the 600 gn range. The arrow took out the top edge of the pelvic bone, but the impact broke the arrowright in front of the fletching. The rest of the arrow andbroadhead carried on through the paunch, through the diaphragm and split the heart. The bear dropped in 10 yards. With the fletched end of the arrow still sticking out his rump.

I know anothera guy, shooting a high speed setup, who shot at a deer season before last. Made a perfect heart shot on it. Only he was extremely lucky because the deer spun as he shot and that arrow which was aimed at theLEFT side actually hit the deer on theRIGHT side.

I've whiffed my share of deer,most of which managed to be quite a distance from where they were standing when I released.

So this is not some wildlyunlikely product of an overactive imagination. It can happen and does happen. Those critters do notalways find it necessary to cooperate and stand there like nice little McKenzie targets and let arrows hit them. There are many ways the animal can take your perfect shot and really screw things up for you.

How do you answer that?