re: Spinoff: Do you carry a sidearm while gun deer hunting?

No matter what you're hunting with, if the deer ain't dead, you put another round right where the first one should have been. Arrow, bullet, shotgun, doesn't matter... Put the damned thing down if you're gonna kill it.

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If a deer has to be finished off when you get close, what is the plan?

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No. If he/she is still able to move and is possibly going to get away I'll just shoot with whatever I used the first time. If the deer is just flopping and bellowing on the ground I'll just walk over and stab it in the lungs with my pocket knife, maybe giving it a little wiggle while it's in there.

Before someone says that's cruel and the deer suffer, do you shoot your fish before you throw them in the ice chest to become hypothermic and suffocate?

I always assumed that picture was just a finish shot. Was that 10mm all you used or did you knock her down with something else first?

I don't like to carry much on me at all when hunting.
Rifle, bullets, flashlight, knife.....
If it ain't totally necessary I probably don't have it, so I don't need two guns on me.

I had to walk up and finish off my deer Saturday, the 270 can hit him behind the shoulder and not damage good meat from mere steps away.

As far as bear or pig defense, I would feel much better using my rifle, close range be damned.

Probably hearing that from people that hunt WMAs if I had to guess, but all that is a mute point if you have your CCL.