If bow hunting buffalo, the hunter should have a friend backing him up with a proper rifle.

JB/larcher planned to bow hunt a water buff bull with me. JB having bow hunted elephant I was confident he knew what he was doing. But I was backing him up with a .450 NE double rifle. At close range if things go wrong, you are ffffed.

As it turned out JB choose to use a rifle, as the buff on the cattle station were hard hunted and very very hard to get so close to use a bow , unless one was lucky and stumbled onto them.