Which method would you use?

[cookingfat]

Which method would you use to dispatch?
A very much alive Muntjac buck caught up do 50 mph!
Knife
Shotgun
Pistol
Other

 

[Rory]

Knife. I would not be confident of where the bullet might end up.

 

[palmer_mike]

Probably a captive bolt would be a good option?
Don’t have one though so if most likely use a .410 angled so that most of the shot would miss the car…….

 

[palmer_mike]

Or a lump hammer

 

[Woodsy]

How did it end up in that position? Surely a side on impact would have the legs at least on the right hand side end up outside not inside?

 

[cookingfat]

Just to add that the head was not visible before dispatch, police officers and public looking on!

 

[Jh1986]

When you order venison on Just Eat

 

[StephenToast]

It looks like ypu've used a knife into the atlas joint?

 

[gixer1]

Poor bugger must have been in some pain. Hope they didn’t spend an hour discussing it!

 

[willie_gunn]

Wow! I don't envy you that at all.

As you say the buck was "very much alive" and that the head was not visible, I personally would not be wanting to use a knife with the public gathered round.

So perhaps moderated .410 with sub-sonic loads, aimed at the spine (as close to neck as possible), and with the barrel angled down to avoid excess damage to the engine/car?

A concern would be where any spent shot might end up, which would influence the position from which to take the shot, but TBH when used on roe I've never found much of an exit wound.

 

[Selous]

small shotgun if a captive bolt were not available using as small shot as possible

 

[8x57]

That's an interesting one Tony, do you have any other photographs of the incident such as how the muntjac was obscured prior to dispatch.

As it is in the photograph I would have been thinking on the lines of using a .22 subsonic or a .410 right up close but I suppose it wasn't as accessible as this when you arrived on scene. Was it more visible when you lifted the bonnet perhaps allowing a better view from inside the engine compartment and down the front of the radiator.

I have a short chamber reducer for shooting .410 cartridges out of my 12 bore. The velocity is much reduced (about 550 fps) and I am wondering if that could possibly be a suitable tool for the job in this instance. That is if you could get access to it in the first place.

 

[TheDeerWalker]

Captive bolt if had one to hand, else knife to the atlas joint... Then worry about the cost of damage! Hit a Roe a few months back in the pitch black on a dual carridgeway, had to dispatch it then go looking for the rest of my bumper!

 

[johndeere]

captive bolt or a 6-inch flexible dick.

 

[RCS Deer Management]

Definitely a knife. Easy to kill using a knife, I wouldn’t even consider a firearm

 

[TheDeerWalker]

Definitely a knife. Easy to kill using a knife, I wouldn’t even consider a firearm

Agreed - too risky with a firearm for me!

 

[8x57]

Agreed - too risky with a firearm for me!

I don't know, the secret has to be to use just enough gun so that every thing is contained.

 

[bullet chucker]

Do you deliver?

BC.

 

[palmer_mike]

captive bolt or a 6-inch flexible dick.

Oooer

 

[8x57]

Oooer

He said flexible not soft.