FirstFreedom
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I have an acquaintance (friend of a friend) who had heard to aim for the femoral artery on hindquarters of an Elk with an arrow, and tried it and sure enough, got his Elk by hitting it there intentionally. It didn't go very far. He says that if you do this, you *want* to then spook and run the game, so that they'll bleed out and not lie down and heal up. Anyway, seems weird, but worked for him as an alternate method for these very tough critters. Oh, he did have to shoot 2 more arrows at it to put it completely down. But where exactly on the hind leg is the femoral, anyway?