Nota shot I would purposely take with a bow.A person I know purposely reamed a big buck several years ago,the broadhead ended up sticking out of the bucks sternum.Didn't approve of it then,don't now but talk about penetration!

Well, not so fast there young guns. LOL I was reading a magazine article about 25 years ago and a bowhunter complained about deer always stopping behind trees or just with their butt stuck out. The author(I believe was Fred Bear but don't hold me to it) or.. it could have been Jim Dougherty. It was one of the old guys. He suggested to the hunter that a broadside shot through both hams would generally dispatch a deer quite quickly. Well being young and impetuous I found myself one day with a nervous deer that stepped out into a peanut field and immediately went back in. He skirted behind me in the brush and came back out on the other side where I think he got the faintest whiff of something a mif. He stepped back into the brush with only his butt sticking out. Remembering the article I had read just a day or so before I drew and aimed for center ham. At the shot the deer whirled back into the field. He made two labored bounds and then went to a walk. The arrow was sticking out both sides. He walked out into the peanut field for about 80 yards and then angled back towards a wood line. By the time he got to the woodline each step was a struggle. As soon as his head hit the woods he just dropped like a rock, straight down and never moved. In all he covered maybe 200 yards. It looked like someone had taken a five gallon pail of blood and poured it all over the peaunuts. I mean I got wet pants from the blood tracking him out. I had seen him fall from the stand but Ialways walk the blood trails for practice and observation. It was a devistating hit for sure but it made a mess of the meat to clean up.

I'd never take the shot again. But back then we only had Fred Bear and Jim to play ethics posse.[8D] They were the Gods we aspired to be like. I accomplished what I tried to do but wouldn't do it again. To addmore fire for the ethics posse, the deer was straddling a premeasured distance marker I had placed in the field. He was straddling my 40 yard wood dowel with blaze orange paint on it. LOL I know, 40yards, butt shot and all that. At the time I was shooting a lot of NFAA tournaments. I had placed 5 rows of wood dowels out in the field like that oldstar shot fan. I had stakes out to 70 yards.[&:] At that time and place if he was straddling the 70 yard stake I'd of flung one at him. Let me have it. LOL

You better be joking, accident is one thing but the odds of hitting htat artery ares slim nad should never be counted on for a humane kill

It a very deadly shot. It's a bigger target than the lungs or heart as well. Dead is dead right? Who gives a $h!t whether or not you pull off a "TV shot" on a deer as long as you kill the deer as quickly as possible.

I'm not joking at all. I read it, I shot it and it was deadly. There are alot of major veins besides the femoral artery running through the butt. I just happened to catch on of the arteries too. I said I wouldn't do it now, but at that time it was what they put in a magazine. You got to remember you could bow hunt a whole year and never see another bowhunter 25 years ago. It was all trial and error. There wasn't much else.

Oh boy, this could get ugly nope, not for me,i would not take the shot

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I dont think id try it

I've seen people get lucky with this shot as well, all though they weren't trying to hit the deer there but it worked. Its a bad decision in my opinion if one were to take that shot!