Commander Guineapig
Member
greetings all (and happy new year),
The following happened to me over the Christmas weekend.
My folks run a summer camp up in the CO mountains and were
coming back from a vacation in Hawaii. My little brother was also back from college, so we headed up to my folks place a bit early to get things ready for them when they pulled in.
On our drive up there, not far from Delta, CO, I was flashed by an oncoming truck. In our neck of the woods, that means there is either a cop, or a deer/elk near the road. We come around the corner, and sure enough, there's a doe in the road...only she's not dead. This is the first live one I've seen...for...yeesh...lotsa dead ones. So I pull over and get out, and ironically a buddy of mine had pulled over behind me. The deer was not struggling, just sitting there with her legs all busted up. She seemed to know she was done for, but still very much alive. I asked my buddy if he was packing, but all he had was a .22 rifle. I had my new Sig P228 with hollowpoints, my wife's Christmas present .380, and my 10/22. However there was a TON of holiday traffic on this little 2-lane highway, and the LAST thing I wanted to do was pull out a handgun and pop this thing in the head. The OTHER last thing I wanted to do was drive away and leave it suffering...I'm no animal rights freak, I'll pop prairie dogs with the next guy, but I hate that kind of suffering. Well fortunately, I didn't have to decide, a State Patrol pulls up lights and all, and hollers if she's still alive. I holler back that she was. So he gets out and ...pulls out a shotgun. My buddy and I get some cars out of the way, and the officer walks to about 8 feet in front of her and shoots her...in the boiler room. She doesn't hardly twitch, she just sits there...breathing as if nothing had happened.
At this point we packed up and left...not much more we could have done.
My question is: Should the officer have used that shotgun, and why the boiler room? I was going to slip my barrel round back of her neck right at the top vertebrae and pop her, knowing she'd go down instantly. I'm not sure if the officer was using buckshot or slugs, but...I don't know. Isn't the head a much better option?
I might add, the areas BEHIND the deer where the bullet would end up weren't the best, but they certainly weren't the worst. This was fairly rural.
thanks,
GP
The following happened to me over the Christmas weekend.
My folks run a summer camp up in the CO mountains and were
coming back from a vacation in Hawaii. My little brother was also back from college, so we headed up to my folks place a bit early to get things ready for them when they pulled in.
On our drive up there, not far from Delta, CO, I was flashed by an oncoming truck. In our neck of the woods, that means there is either a cop, or a deer/elk near the road. We come around the corner, and sure enough, there's a doe in the road...only she's not dead. This is the first live one I've seen...for...yeesh...lotsa dead ones. So I pull over and get out, and ironically a buddy of mine had pulled over behind me. The deer was not struggling, just sitting there with her legs all busted up. She seemed to know she was done for, but still very much alive. I asked my buddy if he was packing, but all he had was a .22 rifle. I had my new Sig P228 with hollowpoints, my wife's Christmas present .380, and my 10/22. However there was a TON of holiday traffic on this little 2-lane highway, and the LAST thing I wanted to do was pull out a handgun and pop this thing in the head. The OTHER last thing I wanted to do was drive away and leave it suffering...I'm no animal rights freak, I'll pop prairie dogs with the next guy, but I hate that kind of suffering. Well fortunately, I didn't have to decide, a State Patrol pulls up lights and all, and hollers if she's still alive. I holler back that she was. So he gets out and ...pulls out a shotgun. My buddy and I get some cars out of the way, and the officer walks to about 8 feet in front of her and shoots her...in the boiler room. She doesn't hardly twitch, she just sits there...breathing as if nothing had happened.
At this point we packed up and left...not much more we could have done.
My question is: Should the officer have used that shotgun, and why the boiler room? I was going to slip my barrel round back of her neck right at the top vertebrae and pop her, knowing she'd go down instantly. I'm not sure if the officer was using buckshot or slugs, but...I don't know. Isn't the head a much better option?
I might add, the areas BEHIND the deer where the bullet would end up weren't the best, but they certainly weren't the worst. This was fairly rural.
thanks,
GP