Kudos to you sis ,
not many folks can muster that kind of strength . Considering what you do for a living it's a marvel to me that you can deer hunt at all .

Well....I wasn't sure either. And every situation may be different. But, my thinking was to not get too close because she might jump & run. I didn't want her wounded in the woods someplace and prolong it. I yelled to her & waved my arms to see if she was resting, or wounded. She had to have been wounded. Her head was bobbling back & forth. She acted like she wanted to get up, but, didn't have the strength.
Her head was the easiest shot. I shot. She still bobbled. So, I got closer & shot her vitals, the best I could while she was laying down. Her head still bobbled. I knew I had hit her twice. Now I was feeling really bad. I waited about 5 minutes. I had a knife, actually Coug Mag had given me this knife, and I went over to her. That's when I really felt bad. She looked up at me and looked so hurt. I went to slit her throat, but, she kicked me. She had awesome strength. I knew I had better end this quickly or she would suffer more. I stuck the knife in her lungs. As she went out, I cried.
After she died, I flipped her over and saw where the vehicle had hit her. It was an old wound. She had suffered a long time.

On a lighter note, I almost saved a baby fawn.....one of our does died a couple of years ago. A farmhand came to me & told me she just dropped dead. I got a knife, cut her womb open immediately & tried to save the fawn. I could've saved it. It was old enough to be born, but, it was still born. In fact, that was the reason the doe died. The toxins had killed her. But, at least it was a hopeful situation. I think I could save a fawn like that next time, if I am faced with that again.

Turkey Fan.....did you get the lure yet?

Sunset you did a very admirable thing for the deer. I comend you on that. Hardest thing for me is to watch the animal suffer that just tears me up inside. I may have caused the pain I may have nor but regardless never like to see them suffer!

GHJ

Good job for doing the right thing I hate to see critters suffer.

Good job sunset. On a similar line...one of my friends works for the pipeline where I live. A nice 9 point was rubbing on a chainlink fencepost (no kidding) and got his rack caught up in the fence. He called to see if I wanted to come out and shoot it. I went out there, not to shoot it, but see it for my self. Someone at the pipeline came out to shoot it with his bow and gut shot it at close range[:@] and had to shoot it again. He got the deer mounted. Still makes me think very little of his ethics and marksmanship. I witnessed the field dressing but was too late to see the deer alive hooked in the fence. Did see some pics of it. Everyone he works with gives him a hard time about that. He said he didn't want to try and free it for fear of himself getting injured. Still makes me cringe that he hit it that bad at about 15 feet.[:'(]

tough to do , but necessary. Had to put down a car hit doe a few yrs back. You did the right thing sunset

lol burniebro...eerily close

Nice job!.. you did the right thing putting her down. I'd of done the same thing

Congrats