Several years ago now I shot a beautiful buck at almost point blank range from my climber as he stuck his nose into a scent wick I had out. This was at high noon on a perfectly cool but super dry early November sit. About 20 minutes earlier two does came by and I know one of them must have been in estrous. Upon release the buck kick turned and went straight back down the hill from whence he came. The arrow was sticking right in the ground in front of me. I got down about an hour later and picked up the blood trail, which was decent but no lung bubbles and it soon started to dissipate. At about 75 yards out I completely lost the trail. I did circles, grids and finally called Deer Search who came out the very next morning. The dog never got super gamey and we tracked for a good three hours or so. Nothing. We deduced that I shot the deer just above the lungs but below the spine in "no man's land" which some people say is a misnomer. That shot haunts me to this day but I know that deer didn't die which made me feel infinitely better. My takeaway was to throw away the 7/8" diameter broadheads I went to for the first time that year. This was just before mechanicals really were starting to get popular and I wasn't interested in committing to them so I went with a fixed head that was super low profile instead. I will never use a low profile fixed head again. It has to be at least an inch for me to use it. The heads were very strong and durable just not wide enough.