ORIGINAL: timbercruiser
While I occasionally hear people mention shooting a deer with a rifle and losing it due to a bad shot I hear 20 to 1 stories about people shooting deer with a bow and losing them.
What difference does it make if they are doing it with a bow or a gun? Unprepared is unprepared and there is no excuse for it either way. It's up to us to make sure our equipment is performing as it is supposed to and that we are proficient with those weapons to cleanly take game. I don't care if you're using an atlatl, you need to be prepared before going into the woods. That's the point.