A fast animal such as a hare killed by a throwing stick? Quite feasible, English poachers could catch hares with a thrown coat, if you stay motionless hares will walk right up to you (if your scent not giving you away). I've had them do so when by a gate or other path a hare is wont to travel.
Philip Amies
Greek shepherds carried a lagobolon as Pan demonstrates. a hare killing throwing stick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagobolon