I keep coming back as well.
Having been in the woods and shooting bows since I was knee high, and doing a LOT of ‘iffy’ stuff, plus the normal accidental stuff with a bow, nothing ever came of it.
Here you have someone walking out and this happens? Wow. Just, wow.
The odds of everything lining up just right, or wrong, are pretty high, even if he was using an established trail. Crazy. Very glad he made it out to tell us the story!