As he stepped out into my shooting lane, I pulled the trigger and the deer went down on his chest and flipped over, got up and flipped again and went down. I figured, cool, good shot, he' s dead. He then picks his head up and starts looking around. I was amazed. I quickly loaded another round and shot but apparently missed because he didn' t move at all. I was out of rounds at this point. A few minutes later he got up and tried to run.
Where did you end up hitting him that he was able to get up and run off again after doing two somersaults?
Don' t worry about taking a deer that was injured. Look at it as more of a challenge. Injured like that they are usually MORE wary and with your wife pushing him you are lucky he slowed down enough to get a shot at.
Chubber