RE: image burned in memory
A friend of ours saw a big buck get smacked by a car a few years back. The next day we went to look for it and we found him still alive, but both back legs were broken clean off at the knees. When we found him he tried running away on his broken legs. It was one of the most painful things I' ve ever had to witness. It took us over an hour to eventually catch up with him and we ended up shooting him and putting one of our archery tags on him just to make it legal and put the poor deer out of it' s misery.
When we finally got him cleaned and hung the insides of the bones in his back legs were packed full of mud and debris from where he' d been running on them. I don' t even want to think about the pain that deer must have been in.