[bleep]!
Probably in a place a real gun would be an issue.
Whatever.
Shut up,
eat the deer,
learn a lesson.
I believe this is a made up story but even if it's not, it's just a deer. Farmers intentionally gut shoot them all the time so that they'll run back into the woods to die and not die in their fields. Have known several here who did this routinely. Carry a rifle on their tractor all the time and gut shoot every deer they see year round. Had one ask me to please do the same to any deer I saw on his property while I was out hunting. He considered them vermin of the worst sort and had no sympathy.
Had hunting rights on 800 acres in a river bottom. When you went to your stand, you never had to ask, "Will I see a deer?" The question was, "Will I see something I want to shoot?"
I was working for the landowner doing plowing and other chores. He would occasionally pay me cash. When he did, I would refuse the cash and just say, "Keep it for letting me hunt."
One day I asked him, "Do you realize how much money you could make selling day hunts?"
His reply to me was, "The only thing I hate worse than deer, is deer hunters!"
At that point, I just shut up and hunted!
