Some time back, I was delivering some bunk beds to deer camp loaded on my trailer, piled high with stuff, including my supplies for the hunt, and the food for the camp.
I left my cottage and headed out early.
As I came around a corner on the highway, I am suddenly surrounded by deer. At least eight. I'm braking and weaving through bounding white tails, and suddenly I'm in the clear. I look in the rear view to see the deer just in time to see one jump against my trailer.
I stop and go back to see if it's Ok, but not to be.
I turned around, so my headlights were on the deer in the ditch as best as I could manage without blocking the road.
s**t, it's Sunday before deer season opens, and I'm alone on a deserted stretch of road with a dying deer.
I dare not get the rifle out (tempting) there's not a mark on the deer, but it's laying in the ditch unable to move. I decide to give it ten minutes to die, and go sit in the Jeep.
Still not dead.
FFS
It seems to be paralyzed in the front quarters. Hind legs move, but can't get up.
I go up close to see if I can spook it to rise, but no go.
Crap
I go back to the jeep, and dig for my knife, this takes a good ten minutes, as it's buried in a very full vehicle.
Deer is still there.
I cut her throat, she gives me a hell of a kick with her hind leg, and I go back to wait.
Ten minutes later, she's still alive! FFS!
I damn near cut her head clean off, and go give her another ten.
She's still alive.
This is ridiculous, it just can't be!
OK, when I shoot a deer, I go for heart lung, and they die quick, so I do the same with my knife.
Ten minutes later, I throw what's left in the trailer under the bunk beds, and drive to Bancroft, (on my way anyway) where I reported the whole thing to a very sleepy OPP officer at the station. He tells me that as long as damage is under X dollars, no report needed. I just wanted a record if the MNR stopped me.
Later I got a possession permit for the deer, and didn't need to use a tag.
Up to now, it's been pretty dark, I must have stepped in the water because my shoes are soaked..... Nope.
When I got out to fill up in Vennachar, I found that my shoes and pants were soaked in blood.
As to the kick, I was lucky, only got a black finger nail out of it. Damage to the trailer, SFA.