I' ve put three down on the road in the last two years. One was a little tricky. Houses close by. Doe was laying half in a three foot ditch trying to paw out of it. My dad is a retired police and now a magistriat judge. He was on the phone with dispatch and when they said it would be awhile before any Deputy could get there, he said we would take care of it. Well I said we have two options, pocket knife or my 45 Glock. The deer' s back was broke and she still had full use of her front legs and I was' nt intrested in getting wacked with her front paws. So he called back dispatch and said we were going to have to shoot the deer. So I went and grabbed her back leg and pulled her back down in to the ditch. With her head down in the ditch and in the safest direction I could, I waited till no cars and that was is it.

Another one happened at the end of this past deer season. I was going to work on a Monday morning, when I was about a mile from the house, I seen a deer laying on the side of the road. As I drove by its head lifted up and watched my drive by. Well I was aready cutting it close to being late, so I kept going. When I got to the top of the hill, I decided I could call in late anyway. So I pulled off and turned around to go back. I called on my cell phone and told them Id be late cause there was a hit deer still alive on the side of the road. My 45 cal. Glock rang out and releived both of us. I was loading it up in my S-10 truck when a school bus came by. Felt kind of bad there for a minute, school bus full of kids seeing some dumb redneck pickin up some road kill. Then I called my dad as I headed back to the house to clean it. Told him to call the Sheriffs office and tell them I had to shoot the deer cause it was still alive & looking at the cars driving by. Only about half the deer was busted up. So we got a little meat out of it.

Deer meat is deer meat, sometimes we get some thats already tenderized