RE: most shots taken to kill a deer?
People always say it's not good to shoot on the run, but I always figure, if you can do it, why not? I have killed a lot of deer on the run, and have never crippled a deer in my life. I've got a lot of practice shooting at coyotes on the run, and if you can stone a coyote running, dropping a larger is nothing.
In answer to the topic, when I was about 12 I had to shoot a doe 5 times. I knocked her down on the first one, but she kept getting up. I put 2 in the front shoulder, 2 in the heart and lungs, and the one that finally ended it in the neck.