Good story Don, life can be cruel at times as we hunt long enough, things can happen that are not good but the animal should be put down ASAP and the hell with calling for assistance from the aurthorities and if you can use the meat then by all means do it, I am not too proud to pick up a fresh road kill deer as opposed to leaveing it there to rot for the critters, I' ll take my chances with a juror as far as the defination of humane goes and if it sounds like I have a bitter taste in my mouth than maybe I do as I had to put a deer down that had gotten tangled up in a barb wire fence along a highway here, motorists had stopped along the road and just watched as the deer was doing cartwills in the strands of wire shredding its skin and baaaaa-ing, it was not a good seen in watching this as I could take no more and shot my 38 two times in killing it, I untangled the deer along with another motorist and let it lay on the ground, due too all the people that witnessed this, I called the local game warden in what had happen and after waiting a couple hours of waiting he showed up and threaten me with a ticket stateing that the deer could of had a chance to get out and would have to right me a ticket, I told him to do what you got to do, but after all the people cleared out he told me to get lost. Bobby