I have a friend that took a frontal shot like that, but the deer was very close. He was hunting on the ground and the deer walked right up to him and was sniffing him. He said it could not have been more than 3 or 4 feet a way. So he let the arrow go to see what would happen. The arrow went in up to the fletching and knocked the deer backwards on it's ass. It got back up and ran about 10 yards and piled up. It was not a very big deer either. He told me he does not reccommend it. He thinks he got lucky, but the thing was staring him right in the face and he could not pass it up.

And by the way, after the deer I shot this year I do not think heart shots are very effective. I took out one lung and and sliced the heart into three pieces and the deer still ran 400 yards never bedding down once. It just ran until it keeled over. I think double lung pass thrus are the way to go. This is based on other peoples experiences obviously, since I have only shot one deer.

Paul