Video of a hunter killing 2 deers with one shot

[Chris_]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Yes.  Yes there is.

It's usually done by cutting the throat with your knife.

Which, coincidently, is also how you begin the field dressing process.

They tend to twitch a bit till you close the gap.

yup.  They're still dead already, but yup.

[ReardenSteel]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

The deer, although squirming, are obviously dead.

The automatic neurological reflexes.  It happens with people too.

I wouldn't shoot a person either.   

HA! High five worthy funny. 

[NHSparky]

People by me would mount flamethrowers on their vehicles to kill the SOB's if they could.

When the spring came and the snow on the roadsides melted back, I counted 18 dead deer in the 5 miles between the grocery store and my house.

That's 18 effed up vehicles that hit one of those furry cockroaches.

Damn things breed like rats and do a helluva lot of damage to the local farms here.

No kiddin--so far this year I've almost hit deer TWICE, both within a mile of the house.

God help me if the moose come down and start looking for food this winter.

[dutch508]

People by me would mount flamethrowers on their vehicles to kill the SOB's if they could.

When the spring came and the snow on the roadsides melted back, I counted 18 dead deer in the 5 miles between the grocery store and my house.

That's 18 effed up vehicles that hit one of those furry cockroaches.

Damn things breed like rats and do a helluva lot of damage to the local farms here.

No kiddin--so far this year I've almost hit deer TWICE, both within a mile of the house.

God help me if the moose come down and start looking for food this winter.

Hell, I've hit three or four deer so far.







of couse...I gots a scope.

 

[dutch508]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

The deer, although squirming, are obviously dead.

The automatic neurological reflexes.  It happens with people too.

I wouldn't shoot a person either.   

Don't worry, sweetheart. I got you covered.

[miskie]

Once one gets out of the larger cities, one finds deer everywhere around here. And even more of the smaller critters.

There are even flocks of wild turkey roaming about. They are usually in flocks of 20 to 50, gobbling and ripping up lawns looking for dinner, and breaking limbs on small trees when they get spooked and flutter up into them.

[Tucker]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

The deer, although squirming, are obviously dead.

The automatic neurological reflexes.  It happens with people too.

Marine sniper said, (paraphrasing) "They all die differently. Some just drop and some wiggle around and try to crawl off. I usually put a second shot into those. I didn't want them crawling around out there. "

Better men have to do awful things so DUmmies can claim to take the high road. Same with controlling the dear, somebody has to do it.

.....and if you don't like to see your meat wiggle around, just try cooking some frog legs that's been in the freezer for a year or more. You know they got to be dead, rtight? Sounds like popcorn cooking for a little while.....

Gross... I like my meat all nice and neat and packaged for sale.   

Well, if they're good frog legs, they're still going to try to jump out of the pan when you fry them. Don't forget to put a lid on them are they may all be in the floor.

I refuse to eat frog legs let alone fry them. 

Tastes like chicken.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Once you shoot and they go down, unless you unquestionably know you hit it right in the brain, you have to sit tight for 10-20 minutes for the deer to bleed out, otherwise even if it mortally wounded it will summon up its last reserves and take off.  There is an excellent chance that if it does so, you will never find it, and will have killed the deer for nothing, which is anathema to an ethical hunter.   

[PatriotGame]

People by me would mount flamethrowers on their vehicles to kill the SOB's if they could.

Damn things breed like rats and do a helluva lot of damage to the local farms towns here.

Oh I see - deer are like DUmmys! 

[Thor]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Once you shoot and they go down, unless you unquestionably know you hit it right in the brain, you have to sit tight for 10-20 minutes for the deer to bleed out, otherwise even if it mortally wounded it will summon up its last reserves and take off.  There is an excellent chance that if it does so, you will never find it, and will have killed the deer for nothing, which is anathema to an ethical hunter.   

My first year hunting at my new location, I shot a deer. Being a little anxious, we all went right over to where we thought it was. It took off. A hunting buddy & I tracked that deer for three hours through the woods. We never did find it. However, some other hunters we came across had just recently killed a deer and we suspected that it was the one I had initially hit.

[Chris_]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Once you shoot and they go down, unless you unquestionably know you hit it right in the brain, you have to sit tight for 10-20 minutes for the deer to bleed out, otherwise even if it mortally wounded it will summon up its last reserves and take off.  There is an excellent chance that if it does so, you will never find it, and will have killed the deer for nothing, which is anathema to an ethical hunter.   

Ah, that makes sense.  It is hard to see them that way, but it makes sense.

If deer weren't furry and cute, people wouldn't object so much.  But they do overpopulate and cause no end of trouble, including environmental problems.

Once I spent some time in huntin' country I learned quickly why hunting is actually a very good thing.

[BlueStateSaint]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Once you shoot and they go down, unless you unquestionably know you hit it right in the brain, you have to sit tight for 10-20 minutes for the deer to bleed out, otherwise even if it mortally wounded it will summon up its last reserves and take off.  There is an excellent chance that if it does so, you will never find it, and will have killed the deer for nothing, which is anathema to an ethical hunter.   

I've dropped two (of the handful I've killed) in their tracks, where I knew they weren't getting up.  Massive spinal trauma.  Took about a minute for each to die.  Rifle each time.  One additional deer I had to track for a while (over 1/4 mile through a swamp--not fun).  The rest were in between those two distance extremes.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I have nothing against hunting, my husband hunts as well.  BUT seeing those two deer squirm around bothered me, I don't think I could shoot an animal myself.

Not being a hunter, I don't know, but isn't there some sort of code that says you put a wounded animal out of its misery?

Once you shoot and they go down, unless you unquestionably know you hit it right in the brain, you have to sit tight for 10-20 minutes for the deer to bleed out, otherwise even if it mortally wounded it will summon up its last reserves and take off.  There is an excellent chance that if it does so, you will never find it, and will have killed the deer for nothing, which is anathema to an ethical hunter.   

I've dropped two (of the handful I've killed) in their tracks, where I knew they weren't getting up.  Massive spinal trauma.  Took about a minute for each to die.  Rifle each time.  One additional deer I had to track for a while (over 1/4 mile through a swamp--not fun).  The rest were in between those two distance extremes.

Yes, I have had an unfortunate experience with 7.62X39 softpoints blowing right through the chest on two of them over the years without hitting the heart or aorta, or apparently even expanding appreciably, and even after a lengthy wait they still got up and took off when I moved, resulting in two long days trying to track them down (one had a bad leg and completely recovered despite a substantial blood pool) and then hung around the area for several months afterward.  The last time I got one, I took a rather tight-grouping .223 bolt gun and swore off the chest shot, I nailed that one right in the back of the head and he dropped like a sack of concrete.