Well sure, with a broadhead it may be possible especially from 8 yards. We're talking a field point though. Little different.

I have shot deer in the head you gonna kick my ass?? Seriously dude grow up before you post!!! If you read what I said you would realize that the shot to the head would stop the heart.... the blood would be minimal due to the fact that it was a head shot and the arrow tip embedding itself into the body would cause minimal blood loss unless it penetrated inside the body a lot further! If you look the head of the arrow is trapped under the skin between the fat and the meat... which means there would be no blood loss!! The most you might expect on the arrow is some brain matter and nothing more which has a minimal chance of happening since the arrow penetrated the head so fast the tip pushes the matter to the sides and the arrow can pass through without hardly any contact! For a person who is " in the last year of my criminal justice degree, and all the investigation and crime scene classes you had to take" You would realize that the wound wouldn't produce any blood! The head of a deer is mych like the head of a humans it has blood in it but a lot smaller amount and seeing as you can't really get a good look at the arrow since its black and any blood would blend in and you wouldn't be able to see it unless inspected in real life you need to go back through those classes and pay closer attention. Besides that, if the deer was already dead.... why put an arrow into its head?

photoshop no blood

I have to laugh (in disgust) at comments like these:

"whatever shot presents itself"
"not a shot I practice alot but would take a spine shot"

You guys are kidding, right? So with that logic a lesser deer or a mere doe would constitute only taking a carefully placed, well thought out, waited on shot through only the broadside vital area whereas the tactics of taking a "buck of a lifetime" change to a hail mary approach if that's the only shot available simply because the deer is a once in a lifetime buck? Wow. That's sick.

Years ago I had a very nice 150 class buck in range for what seemed like all day. He of course stopped on the side of my tree that had tangles of branches in front of me. No shot. I told the story to the guy that was hunting with me that day and he was shocked that I didn't at least try a shot on him. "You didn't even try a hail mary on a buck that big?", he asked. My reply, "No moron, what's the point in pulling the trigger unless you are sure of your target!!". Needless to say, I don't hunt with this guy anymore.

This has been a really wierd thread! You don't see this much here!

You can do what you want, but....

I would NOT take the shot. IMHO, it is disrespectful to the animal. I am good friends with an older gentleman, who is a Creek Indian. They considered that kind of kill to be wrong, and that it displeased God. I agree.
Trae

Yes, actually you should. Why would you shoot a doe or any animal in the back legs? you give hunters a bad name and should stay under the rock you crawled out from

Now that is EXPERIENCE right there talking. Lets shoot for the ears if we have to. You give NY'ers a bad name.

Translation= I tresspass,hunt out of season and poach.

Wow its funny how you people think a headshot isn't an ethical shot but a liver shot is!! A liver shot makes a deer suffer a lot longer that a head shot!

Every liver shot will kill the deer every head shot will not.

My 15 yr old passed on a huge 8 pt Saturday morning,because the deer didn't give him the shot he was confident with. I'm very glad he didn't take a head shot. Some of the folks on this thread make me want to puke.