ORIGINAL: Germ
I have shot one walking
I have let some walk by and not try to stop them
I have stopped one and shot it.
I have decided to take it one deer at a time. Let the situation dictate what I do. I will tell you this for sure, I will not try and stop one after MI's gun season. A loud fart will send them running, and they just run, no looking up in the tree to see what made thet noise.
That pretty much sums up my experience as well.
I actually started thinking about this years ago. I always made a sound to stop the deer and almost inevitably after the shot they took off like a rocket. This left me with some very long and time consuming tracking jobs. If the deer was hit good, he would be a hundred or so yards away, no big deal...BUTif it wasn't as good a hit as I would have liked the deer was recovered many hundreds of yards away and sometimes after a day or so of searching.[:@]
As I started to analyze what was happening I started to think about how easy it was to find my deer that I didn't have to stop (ones that just came in and stopped on their own before I could even give them a short "maaa").
So Idecided tostop arbitrarily "stopping deer" with a mouth call and found what I have already posted. For the most part, I have found that relaxed deer at the time of the shot will not run as far away even with a less than perfect hit. In fact considerably less.