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[Ham]

Biggie, did your "straight up the front leg" put you in the shoulder bones?  Should we be thinking at least slightly quartering away and avoid broad side?

[Biggie Hoffman]

The shoulders on those critters are shaped different. They angle forward from the top of the leg then back higher up. Resulting in a pocket of opportunity for an arrow.

Beleive me, I had a hard time shooting there until I saw a critter on the ground.

Best bet is to get some anatomy books and check 'em out.

[Rick McGowan]

The bone structure isn't really different, but the organ location is. If you look at the reassembled skeleton of a whitetail or a black bear or such, the upper leg bones go sharply forward at about a 45 degree angle on a standing broadside animal. If you hit the shoulder bone the shot was way to high to hit anything good, unless you are shooting downhill, like from a treestand.