stupid to take the shot when he did. Anyone worth a flip could tell that deer knew the gig was up and was moving on out. Just plain ignorant shooter IMHO.
Edited to add, I watched it again. Deer was slightly moving forward at shot. All shooter had to do was wait and he'd stop again. Boom.
As an aside, I've seen this scenario a few times now with shots below the spine and in the meat. I was lectured on here a while back that there is no location below the spine that isn't fatal. Those folks care to explain this video then that obviously didn't take his spine out?
Yes, I agree he probably would have stopped again. OTOH once they are edgy like that it generally takes some amount of time or even regroup and find them once they've moved some and settled again, rather than risk an alert deer taking a step. Though time of flight is not long, I just wouldn't risk it.
IMHO, the body language on that deer is totally wrong to pull the trigger. Even if he was 200 yards away it wouldn't have worked for me. But then most folks say I"m a bit to picky...
