How to humanely kill deer that have been hit by a car

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
I expect many on here knew Arthur Duckett, he had a revolver, that had more than 1 round, this, is highly illegal, and you have to get special license, the story he told was, that on being asked, why he wanted more than 1 round, which is the usual, he replied, very often required to put down dangerous stock, why do you need more than 1 round ? What happens if I miss the bugger first time? and was granted !!
 

unlacedgecko

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Fife
I expect many on here knew Arthur Duckett, he had a revolver, that had more than 1 round, this, is highly illegal, and you have to get special license, the story he told was, that on being asked, why he wanted more than 1 round, which is the usual, he replied, very often required to put down dangerous stock, why do you need more than 1 round ? What happens if I miss the bugger first time? and was granted !!

Most humane despatch pistols have at least 2 chambers available, with the others being blanked off.

There’s a stalker somewhere near a wild boar population who has a .357 magnum with all 6 chambers available. It’s for following up wounded pigs in thick cover.
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
Seems a bit undergunned for following wild boar!!!

Just need a good dog (with armour) and a knife.

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My team in Hungary a few years ago.
 

A1an

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Ironic I should read this just now, I'm just back from dispatching a Red Hind that had been hit by a car driven by our local GP.

I maybe get a dozen call outs a year.

Dispatched with whatever firearm is closest at hand.
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Doesn't where you put the charge make a significant difference? Chop a chicken's head off and apparently it will run around the garden, headless. Never done it but that seems to be one of those common rural legends. "Running around like a headless chicken".

I've stalked and shot a lot of deer and anything clean shot in the neck or rear of the brain drops like a pricked balloon. The first is the major communications centre and the second the control centre. On the other hand, the recommended lung or heart shot can result in the animal running a fair way. But that is the traditional target when stalking as it is a larger area to aim for and less likely to result in non-fatal injury.

I found the web site below which gives wise practical advice. Aiming at the front of the skull makes perfect sense in their illustration as a bullet will pass through the brain and down the vertebral column, but how often will a wounded deer lie conveniently facing you? I think I'd rather put a bullet in the back of the brain.

I always put down my own dogs and horses as I know then it will be done properly. With a horse, I sit quietly in the field waiting until the horse is grazing peacefully and facing me full on. A bullet from the .222 at where two lines from ears to eyes would cross has them dropping without a twitch. But there is always another bullet up the spout, just in case. I would never ever consider a heart shot or side on shot to the head in that situation.

Yeah! It was (I was only very young then) a matter of angles, they probably smacked it in the right "place" but because they were nervous they got the angle all wrong. Standing on the back of a ute meant they almost completely missed the brain because of shooting downwards

Dad grabbed it (gun) off them and killed it while they all blithered their nerves out, amateurs
 
I've had to dispatch a wide variety of critters over the years.
Pretty much every mammal whose skull I've peaked into has the brain right at the top, so .22 round, or at need a blunt instrument, wants to come in from the top.
Certainly don't aim anything like 'between the eyes', as said above. you'll only p*ss em off.
An osses brain box is a long way up from there..and not very big either.

If you've really nothing to hand, and the critter is small enough, just close off their nostrils/mouth.
It is an unhappy minute or so, but that's got to be better than watching something suffer.

On firearms on the highway.
It'll be a level headed copper that lets it pass nowadays.
A neighbour was called out to a mare hit on a moorland road backalong.
She arrived to find it flailing about with 2 broken legs....in about as much stress as you can imagine.
The cops who were already on hand were told she'd got hold of her lad, and he was minutes away with the rifle.
'Oh no' the declared, 'you can't discharge a firearm on the highway'.
'we've called a knackerman/vet with a boltgun.' (I forget which)

I believe the boltgun operative took an hour or so to rock up.
Poor frickin mare.
(no-one had the gumption to do it, but it would have been easy to send a copper off in either direction and close the road...but hey ho)
How awful for the poor horse.
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Yeah but you're Crocodile Dundee. Im Bear stay-behind Grylls who would rather eat burgers.
I do (very quietly) have a handgun for self defence, have never had to use it in anger luckily

If you grab piggy in the flank HARD, then it puts his back legs out of gear - this saves them escaping and turning on you if you don't get the knife in quick-smart, which sometimes happens

I hide up a tree and drop on them, this helps loads as if you think he's too big then you wait for the next, our bush here is so thick that it's basically impenetrable unless you follow a pig or deer track in. So that counts against carbines

It's also quite heavily hunted in places so they are a bit gun-shy, some guys blaze away but it kinda wrecks other people's day, I like my bayonet
 
I do (very quietly) have a handgun for self defence, have never had to use it in anger luckily

If you grab piggy in the flank HARD, then it puts his back legs out of gear - this saves them escaping and turning on you if you don't get the knife in quick-smart, which sometimes happens

I hide up a tree and drop on them, this helps loads as if you think he's too big then you wait for the next, our bush here is so thick that it's basically impenetrable unless you follow a pig or deer track in. So that counts against carbines

It's also quite heavily hunted in places so they are a bit gun-shy, some guys blaze away but it kinda wrecks other people's day, I like my bayonet

Ah you use the trees and prefer blades. So you aren't Crocodile Dundee. You're the Predator instead.
 

brigadoon

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Galloway
Its one of the things that makes me REALLY uneasy, its amazing how all of your senses come alive when tracking a pee'd off pig.
I read once about a forest and game officer in the states who had things go badly wrong when releasing a grizzly from a trap and he emptied a 44 Magnus into it. He said he never heard any of the 5 rounds go off but the click on the empty chamber sounded like thunder.
 

tinsheet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Somerset
I expect many on here knew Arthur Duckett, he had a revolver, that had more than 1 round, this, is highly illegal, and you have to get special license, the story he told was, that on being asked, why he wanted more than 1 round, which is the usual, he replied, very often required to put down dangerous stock, why do you need more than 1 round ? What happens if I miss the bugger first time? and was granted !!
Legend!
Seriously tooled up he was!
 

exmoor dave

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exmoor, uk
I expect many on here knew Arthur Duckett, he had a revolver, that had more than 1 round, this, is highly illegal, and you have to get special license, the story he told was, that on being asked, why he wanted more than 1 round, which is the usual, he replied, very often required to put down dangerous stock, why do you need more than 1 round ? What happens if I miss the bugger first time? and was granted !!


He was a total SW legend ?
 

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