Battue, it's not something I would do again (on purpose anyway, grin)... I butchered him myself so I got to deal with the consequences and I was pretty disgusted with the mess I'd made...
I am primarily a meat hunter, so shooting him right in the meat was... regrettable.
Dunno what would have happened with a .223. Would it have smashed the hip joint and gone through the whole deer lengthwise?