ORIGINAL: bigcountry
You know that reminds me of something. The first day of archery here in MD, my buddy shot too far at this 4 pt and it hit a little branch and nailed him in the arse. Where the tail it. Don't know how he managed to hit it. Anyway we were both hunting pretty close and I saw it hit. It parallized that deer's back hind leg. So all it could do is throw itself up with one back leg and pull itself. It came by me a few min later. And I put a arrow thru its lungs at 30. But I have yet to see such a ugly shot that was so effective.
Not so , my friend also hit a buck in the rear hind it was a hip shot and the deer could barely and I mean barely walk, we waited till morning and found it not far at all poor thing was still alive but couldnt get up and place another shot to finish him. This friend has always been this lucky, no matter if it's a bad shot we find his deer, I've made some pretty good shots in my opinion with my bow and have lost a couple of deer. Go figure.