i like the path the arrow would take at that angle... cause it would jus destroy everything inside the deer but my self i dont think i take it.. confidence reasons.. id prolly wait for a lil better angle.. but if you can do it more power to ya... but we really dont know the whole story coulda hit a limb or anything an got lucky.. maybe the deer jumped the string an spun around before the arrow got to him.. none the less thats a great buck

It's just a shot I would not take. In fact, that's very similar to the one Ididn't takeon the biggest buck I've seen in Alberta in'06. To each, his own.

I hear ya, tough shot like I said that I wouldn't take either!

Sure it's a lethal shot but not all deer hit with a lethal shot are found. Big body on that slug but the arrowsure gotliver and some lung. Not real good placement for bloodtrailing either.

The picture of the little doe with a similar hit not really a fair comparison. Soft bodied little skipperand a stud that looks like a tank.

I think I might have to take the shot though...(sigh)

Planter....

That's why I clarifid my statement to include knowing one's setup. I wouldn't take that shot with a 50# bow.

I always think back to something I read from an author named Joe Brooks. Joe says that....breaking it down....the size of a full sized buck's vitals are about the size of a basketball. He says if he KNOWS he can place his arrow into that area.....he's gonna take the shot.

Isn't this kinda like the guys who post up their kills from 70yds? Just because it's NOT "OK" for some to take this shot (due to setup issues or their confidence level).....that says nothing to what someone else might do. Irrelevant.

Great deer...............congrats!!!

I had a very similar shot on a doe about 5 years back. She was on full alert and right before I shot, you pegged me in the tree. She spun when ai released and turned to an extreme quartering away. I was using mechanical heads at the time and a bow that did not have alot of KE ( stupid me but I did not know better)....I had no pass through. The doe ran 40 yards and fell over dead in seconds. The shot nailed her in the heart and her whole cavity was filled with a tremendous amount of blood even though I could find barely a speck of blood on the ground.

And how he found it was probably patience, waiting and good tracking. See thread pinned at the top of this forum. I've hit deer worse and found them.

That is an incredible deer, and really a great shot too. Hard to say the situation at hand, but any shot like that they are down very quickly. I agree, I would rather have a little more broadside, but I can tell you from experience - when you shoot one at that angle....they go down very quickly, especially if you don't get a passthrough. I would not hesitate to take that shot if its all I had. Of course if that arrow is a crossbow bolt, you have issues [8D]

it was a good shot considering everything, and i'm sure it was more than lethal. having said that i think he could have waited for a better angle...