I hit a small buck with the car a few years back. I hit him square in the middle of the hood on a 98 Pontiac Grand Prix. He flew about ten feet in the air. If I wouldn't have been hard on the brakes he would of landed on the roof of the car! He was still alive and struggling on the shoulder of the road. This happened only 1 mile from my house. So on the way home to get the pistol My wife called the dispatcher and told them what happened and were going to shoot it to put it out of its misery. The dispatcher said we couldn't do that and had to wait for a Deputy to arrive. So we got the gun and went back to the seen to wait for the Deputy..........I could not stand the thought of that deer laying there in agony so I went and shot it in the head. The Deputy arrived and didn't have any problem with me shooting it at all...........We told him the dispatcher said we couldn' shoot the deer......He said the dispatcher was new and didn't know crap!!! So I'm not sure if it was legal or not but it was the right thing to do!!!