Darn sure have taken TX heart shots on mongo Nilgai running directly away. Both were quickly dispatched and are outstanding mounts.

if you cant, wont or dont recover your animal within an hr you didnt kill it, you wounded it.
and im being generous with the hr, gun or bow, a well placed shot the animal will expire within minutes

Well not exactly. Quite often with a marginal shot you killed it but it:
A) went a long way before dying.
B) did not die immediately.
C) left very little or no blood
D) your tracking skills were not up to finding it

I have always loved archery for the challenge and the extended seasons. I m short in stature with only a 26.5 in draw length. I started archery at 15 with a bear 50 # Kodiak Hunter recurve. After wounding several deer do to poor penetration and placement I quit archery at 17. At 21 the compound bow arrived and this advancement gave me full power and improved accuracy with my limited draw length. I never looked back and never lost another deer. I limited my shots to 20 yards max and never went into the woods unless all my arrows at 20 yds fit in a 2" bull. I agree that not enough emphasis is put on shot placement and making sure nothing impacts kill zone access. Unfortunately my age has impacted my consistency so I am now a cross bow enthusiast. Wounding an animal is a terrible consequence of poor skills and or bad judgement and should be voided at all cost,

We outfits and in general our archery hunters are better shots and practice more than the rifle hunters. After they arrive we take them out to shoot and the results would surprise you. Unfortunately every now and then we lose an animal with both method but not very often. Maybe it's because they have more expense in the trip that they put more effort into it but our hunters are usually pretty accurate.

TV hunting shows are hit and miss with many questionable shots and hits for sure. I don't watch many but the ones that are bad are usually consistently bad.

Maybe Oswald made the shot.