RE: Deer runing into things that don't give.
my dad had one run into a tree, the same tree, several times, then flop over.
It's his story, not mine, but it goes something along the lines of he shot this big buck, and it ran a couple yards, stoped, then ran into a tree, backed up, then ran into it again, backed off, and ran into the other side of it, and finally floped over. I know i missed some details, but it's something along those lines. [8D]
Just this year he shot a wounded deer that wasn't going to make it till next year ( missing a rear leg )...ended up tanged in a barbed wire fence. I have a picture if you guys want to see a little one tangled in a fence :-P