I felt bad...

[BBReezen]

I've been giving my hunting partner a hard time since last bow season for shooting a deer in the buttocks. The deer was quartered away and walking and when he turned loose the deer stepped and wham in the ham. The arrow went into chest cavity and hit good vitals and they found him about 100 yds or so away but I got a kick outta messing with him over the arse shot. I had to swallow my pride today and tell him I wouldn't poke fun any more because I saw Tom Miranda shoot a Shiras Moose straight in the buttocks also and killed it. Tom said i think i hit him a little far back, ha any further back and he would have missed. What's with the butt shot doing the job especially on a moose?

[elkbowhunter]

Could have hit a major Artery.

[Mudslinger]

I have been told by people that live in Alaska and hunt moose up there that the pain tolerance that a moose has is very low and a lot of iffy shots on other animals will put a moose down for a follow up shot. If the arrow hits tha ham, he either hit the femoral artery or got into the body cavity enough to get the kidney or liver and those are deadly shot, takes a while but deadly.

[hully1029]

opposite texas heart shot

[BBReezen]

Could have hit a major Artery.

Guess so but Toms shot didn't look anywhere close to an artery unless he got a kidney, he was close.

I have been told by people that live in Alaska and hunt moose up there that the pain tolerance that a moose has is very low and a lot of iffy shots on other animals will put a moose down for a follow up shot. If the arrow hits tha ham, he either hit the femoral artery or got into the body cavity enough to get the kidney or liver and those are deadly shot, takes a while but deadly.

I'd hate I figure that out the hard way.

opposite texas heart shot

It's on the same end of what we always called the Texas heart shot, just didn't quite hit the "bullseye".

[Cam-Mac]

Bull fever got him, lol.

[BigThicketBoy]

Sas the same thing on a show last week. Hit the deer in the way back but hit an artery blood spaying everywhere. They got lucky.

[gatorgar]

Fred Bear's favorite shot. Lots of major veins and arteries running through the hams. And the femoral is the biggest on in the lower half of the body.

[Randell]

I have done it myself a time or two. Things happen when bow hunting by some luck I hit arteries and the deer were dead in just a few yards.

[jathomas437]

My dad has always been leary of those 'bow hunting shows'. He has a theory that there is always a guy ready with a rifle when the bow shot doesn't go well. And that's when you see the later LDPs with the guy and his bow. Makes a lot of sense after you've seen a few of those terrible and embarrassing "live, mis-placed" bow shots on TV.