Arrow up his nose

[Goshawk]

If a ricochet hit's him in the nose, you'll be crucified online. But if it takes out his jugular, it's an EPIC SHOT!

Stuff happens, and it sometimes ends up bad.

Dang lucky.
Way too much brush to try and thread an arrow through.

[Ghost Hunter]

Doesn't he look a little pointy at the butt.  Pass thru?        Bummer it turned out that way. 

[Buzz2401]

This is what comes to mind when guys tell me they shoot 50, 60, 70+ yards.  So much can happen in the amount of time it takes for a arrow to fly that distance. Same thing goes for the uber long rifle shots.  I believe you can be a great shot at the range but things still go wrong that can often be out of your control while in the field. By limiting our selves a little on range you can drastically reduce those things out of our control.  I see people trying to justify themselves compared to rifle hunters. Why? They are completely different.  Yes rifle hunters make bad shots also, but rifles are way more forgiving then arrows when the shot is off.  You also here 10-1 archery lost animals to rifle animals.  Its just part of the sport, it is harder to kill an animal with archery gear.  We all would be wise to limit our distance a little and let an animal walk rather then stretch ourselves just to make a kill.

[bornhunter]

This is what comes to mind when guys tell me they shoot 50, 60, 70+ yards.  So much can happen in the amount of time it takes for a arrow to fly that distance. Same thing goes for the uber long rifle shots.  I believe you can be a great shot at the range but things still go wrong that can often be out of your control while in the field. By limiting our selves a little on range you can drastically reduce those things out of our control.  I see people trying to justify themselves compared to rifle hunters. Why? They are completely different.  Yes rifle hunters make bad shots also, but rifles are way more forgiving then arrows when the shot is off.  You also here 10-1 archery lost animals to rifle animals.  Its just part of the sport, it is harder to kill an animal with archery gear.  We all would be wise to limit our distance a little and let an animal walk rather then stretch ourselves just to make a kill.

 

[DOUBLELUNG]

I shot a bull elk facing left broadside looking at me at 42 yards.  The arrow hit behind his right shoulder, he had wheeled almost 180 in the time it took the arrow to reach him.  I haven't shot at an animal staring at me since.  It's still not a guarantee; my first archery mule deer buck was feeding at 21 yards, quartering away - he still jumped the string enough to move forward and turn about 90 - arrow hit the back of the ribs and exited the right hindquarter, fortunately hit major blood vessels and he left a sheet of blood to where he died.

As someone noted, an animal injured with a firearm is seen as "hurt" by the general public, whereas one with an arrow in it was undeniably wounded by an archer.  For context, I've put down around 600 injured big game animals, over 500 were motor vehicle collisions, a few dozen were injured with a firearm and 2 had arrows sticking out of them.  The rest were an odd assortment of entangled in fences, savaged by dogs or wild predators, starving, diseased or actually healthy but with a healed or congenital injury. 

We all hate to see this, but hunter or trapper harvest is a relatively humane cause of death.  All wild animals live a short life and die a "bad" death; the other options are disease, starvation, predation, or traumatic injury.  Almost no wild animal lives out its maximum life expectancy and dies peacefully of old age.

[Screwtape5981]

There was a video documented hunt where a bull turned at the wrong time and arrow went in mouth and down throat....bull coughed out arrow and broad head and was fined a for a few days until they tracked him and killed...from all reports after death he appeared to have no life threatning wounds,meaning minus sepsis or later mishap like wounds not healing right he would have survived just fine.