Please stop you guys are giving me a headache why can't we just drop the whole ethical or unethical poaching or not poaching thing. It is your LEGAL obligation to finish the deer off. It really is. To answer NY question about if it was fataly wounded well if you were a deer and were not in alot of pain and thought you could get a way would you sit there and let some one walk up and shine a light on you UMMMM NO. So I would say it was a pretty good chance it would have died that night sure but why put it off why not finish it now. Would you let your dog that got hit by a car lie on the side of the road and wimper and suffer why you sit there and wonder what to do, if you would I feel very sorry for you. But this is one reason why I will let a deer sit over night because I cannot for any lenght of time stand to watch a deer even squirm on the ground for a few seconds after being shot. It breaks my heart to see an animal on te ground still half alive and I will do everything in my power to comfort him and make it as quick as possible. Call me a ***** if you want I have been called worse but honestly can we end this one already.