Why make anything suffer longer than it has to. I remember as a kid, some of the guys we hunted with were ego crazed and would only shoot once no matter what. If they missed, "it was an armadillo", If they gut shota deer or hogand could catch up to it, they still wouldn't shoot again for fear someone would hear it and know they were not Carlos Hathcock. One guy was actuallyseen trying to strangle a wounded deer with his sling.
One morning I was hunting within 300 yards of a "Bubba", heard him shoot, then I heard the deer squall for 15 minutes. He refused to shoot it again.
Those guys were pure Jack Asses. Just like the guy that says, "what will a second shot do that the first didn't do".
ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr
What do you think the second bullet is going to do that the first one didn't? Other than mess up more meat. Dead is dead. If your first shot was a lethal shot then the deer will die, putting more bullets in it probably won't speed this up any.
I bow hunt as well, so I am used to making the first shot count then waiting to track the animal so I don't bump it and make it run farther. And when I gun hunt there really isn't time for a second shot. The deer either drops or runs and I don't have time to recover from the shot, aim and shoot before it's gone. I am better off taking the shot and watching the reaction of the animal and where it goes.
Besides both of my hunting guns are single shots anyway, an H&R ultra slug gun and a remington inline muzzle loader. I do have an A-5 smooth bore or a back up though.
Paul