If you ever shoot one with a pistol to finish it off don't do it point blank. I shot a doe in a cutover one time and when I got to her I couldn't find any shells in my pocket. They had fallen out of my pocket when was sitting against the tree. Anyway I get to the deer and it's still alive so I pull out my .45 and shoot it in the head with about 3 inches between her cranium and the muzzle. About busted my freaking eardrums and my inner ear hurt for a dang week.


"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."

-- Archibald Rutledge