Now I can tell you my idiot story! One day while hunting I came across a nice little 4 point. The deer never saw me walk up on him and let me get pretty close.(15 yards) Just as I went to squeeze the trigger he spooked and turned his body so I hit him high and towards the back. The way he flipped back and twisted I figured I broke his back. He dropped like a ton of bricks! I walked up to him and poked him with the gun a few times but nothing happened. I could see that he was still breathing but he was out and not moving. This is where the idiot part comes in. I leaned my gun against a tree and took my coat off and got ready to gut him hoping he would expire while I was getting ready. He didn't so I thought I would speed things along by slitting his throat and bleeding him out. I've done this before on 2 doe's. As I leaned over the buck and stuck the knife into his neck He stood up and rammed me in the stomach! The jolt pushed me back about 5 feet! Now I find myself 5 or 6 feet away from my gun holding my knife by the blade staring eye to eye with an animal that is pissed! Lucky for me after a 10 second stare down he decided to make a run for it and I was able to get my gun and finish him off! I stood there for the next 15 - 20 minutes just talking to myself out loud about how messed up that was. If anyone had seen me they would have thought I was an escaped mental patient! Lesson learned! Stay away from the animal until you are sure it is dead! I can't blame this on youth either it happened last year! .... Hunt safe .... Jim