Spinal shots?

[WA hunter14]

ive killed two bucks with bows... both spine shots. it isnt pretty definately avoid that

[Tbar]

I have pulled 4 broadheads out of spines, all from previous years.  Threads like this make me wish I had photo documented to show how small your actual target is.  They have had varying degrees of penetration including missing vertebra, indicating a very solid and we'll placed shot. I was also present when a follow up spinal shot was attempted (and well placed), the arrow got the spine slightly angled, turned and penetrated the entire length of the backstrap and excited the neck.
This shot, from first hand experience, will undoubtedly result in a fair percentage of lost animals.  Like I said before I wish I had photo documented my experience. 

[h20hunter]

I've done it once with a rifle on a deer. Not pleasant as others have mentioned. I pulled the shot and she dropped. Point blank finish on a bawling animal is unpleasant. You do what needs to be done, and learn from it. I would not intentionally go for the spine.

[lokidog]

We pulled an old green broadhead out of a buck when I was a kid in WI, he had apparently been fighting during the rut and another buck hit him pushing that broadhead the last 1/16 of an inch it needed to sever his spinal cord.

I've hit two elk in the spine, the first was my first ever shot at one, a cow at 10 yards.  She stepped up out of the reprod and I drew back and let my instinct take over.  Unfortunately, my instinct was still stuck in a treestand and I aimed high....  we saw her three days later, fortunately, with a big scabby stain on her but she was still with the herd.  The second was an intentional neck shot as that was the only angle I had after putting an arrow in the back of one lung and the liver.  I can still see that arrow, she turned her head away, I sat up in the grass, drew and let fly, it sailed perfectly, smacked her and head just dropped like a ton of bricks.  Still not a shot I would take intentionally as a first one though.

[LeviD1]

I don't like spine shots at all. One of the first does I shot with my bow I hit in the spine. I was in a treestand and she was about 16 yards up the hill from me. When I hit her she crumbled and rolled to about 3 yards in front of my ladder bawling. Worst feeling ever. I will never forget that. I clipped a lung also but put another in her and she was out within a minute. That experience did make me a better archer though. I practice 10 times more than I used to and have learned a lot more about proper bow tuning.