You have to remember, you can't go off what they do in the hunting shows when walking up to a dead deer.

Most of them actually go find the deer first, make sure it's dispatched, then back up a ways and then do the filming of the walk up to the deer. They only poke it as a formality to make sure that YOU see them poking the deer, promoting safe hunting. Truth is, that deers already been poked in the ass before.

One of the hunting show I saw over the winter, you could actually see the footprints of their first walk up to the deer, yet the guy was saying things like "I think it went this way, OOOH, Is that it?! Is that it!? OOhhh myy gosh!!!!"

I poke mine in the ass with the end of my barrel. Then circle around it and check it's eyes.