RE: was this the right thing to do
I personally don' t believe in shooting at a running deer. It' s just too hard to place a shot where it needs to be. You can always tell when someone is shooting at a running deer because they shoot 4 or 5 times in short succession. Just burns me up when I hear all those gunshots, knowing that whoever is doing the shooting is probably going to just wound the deer instead of put it down... [:' (]
Just my opinion, but I never shoot a deer when it' s running. Heck, I never shoot it when it' s just walking. I always whistle and make it stop before I shoot...
Thunder