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A writhing injured animal is very dangerous, and very hard to shoot. A shovel to the head is a good idea. Stun it. And you can't be sure a shot deer is dead. Slitting the throat is an excellent idea. Lots of people have been surprised to find that a deer they shot or hit with a car has come to and attacked.

No matter if we're POSITIVE a deer is dead, we slit the throat.

PETA doesn't know, once again, what it's talking about.

If this was a naval air station, the deer probably hit a fence that was up against a concrete pad. So the deer would wind up falling on the concrete surface. You shoot a deer lying on a concrete pad with a 9mm with solid ammunition, and it's anybody's guess where that bullet is going to go. Never mind the bystanders, you could shoot yourself in the foot.

A few years back we had a deer hit by a car at work. The poor pathetic thing hid in the woods for three days, till finally he was found. We called our local Police Department, who dispatched two officers. Officer #1 stands over the deer, who was pretty immobile at this point, and shoots at him four (4) times, without killing him. Officer #2 steps in and finishes him off with only three (3) more shots.

If it can take as many as seven shots to put down a deer (I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself), can you imagine seven shots ricocheting of that concrete? It wouldn't be a question of if somebody was hit, it would be a question of who was going to be hit, and how many times.