ORIGINAL: Planter

In a past season I spined a little fork horn. It sounded like two pieces of 2X4 hitting together when that arrow hit him. Well he went down and was thrashing his front end about trying to drag his butt out of there.
I watched this distasteful sight for 10 minutes befor I had to stick him again. It was really not very pleasant.
Will a spine shot deer die on his own or is it always gonna be along and unsettling experience.
My bud swears he would have just climbed down and pulled out his knife to deliver the coup de grace. I wish he had been there as I would have like to seen him get his butt kicked by half a deer.
Could I carry a pistol Xbow just to finish him off or would a blowgun work better.