Every so often, bowhunters will encounter the skeptic that feels archery equipment is not a deadly means of killing wild game. “It’s a slow, cruel death,” they’ll say as they try to make their case.

So with archery elk season just a month away, we offer the following video to stoke the fire for big bulls in your face…and to once again put to rest the fact that a bow is as deadly a weapon as any you’ll ever hit the woods with.

Will a bow and arrow kill a big bull elk quickly and humanely? You be the judge!

Just watch as 13-year-old, Clayton Coyle, unplugs a big Wyoming bull that walks right up in his lap. It’s been a few years now, but Clayton’s elk kill continues to be one of the deadliest elk kills ever captured on camera.