The short version:
Car vs deer MVA. Hard enough impact that airbags deployed. Deer survived but not mobile, just sitting there suffering.
LEO on scene asks if there is a unit available with a rifle, or can we get animal control to respond.
I'm wondering, in this situation, why not use his 9MM sidearm to dispatch the deer? Range is what, 3 yards? Can 9MM not penetrate the skull of a deer?
9mm can easily kill a deer thru heart/lungs or brain. Heart/Lung would take longer obviously
Could be a variety of reasons,
A) Cop doesn't have a clue about kill shots on wildlife/doesn't feel confident
B) Cop feels it's a Wildlife officers issue
C) Cop doesn't want to deal with department paperwork on discharge of weapon
I ran into situation A once...with a DEP cop down in CT, on a deer I shot thru the liver and one lung (bow), that unluckily ended up on an Anti hunters property. Deer was down.. but not out...took me 3-4 minutes to get down out of stand and by that time, the Anti called town cops, Regular town cop got there, and did not feel comfortable. Told him I could have dispatched the deer easily with another arrow thru the lungs, and if I was in a normal situation, that would be the end game. Instead we had to sit there and wait for DEP cop, because the town cop asked me too. Landowner bxtching at me the whole time waiting.
Now it gets even funnier.....2 DEP cops show up, the Top guy (not being racist, he was black and obviously not chosen for his knowledge of wildlife) ....shoots deer thru the middle snout, nasal cavity with his 9mm. I politely tell him, that is not going to kill the deer, but he goes over to it and tries to touch it, it bucks and flops and scares the crap out of him. (Im nearly pissing my pants laughing at this shxt show) His partner who was second in command (and smiling back at me) grabs the shotgun and puts it thru base of his neck. Done.
They put deer on rack and go to drive it over to my landowner's driveway and give deer to me after first verifying the Anti doesn't want the animal. Anti bxtching the whole time, Top guy goes back to truck and ignores the whole thing.
His partner being polite at first asks landowner to quiet down, landowner gets huffy, and DEP cop chews him a new ahole, telling him the deer is the states property, I'm a good guy fixing the excess deer issue, etc, etc...reams him. Pretty funny but that guy must have pissed the DEP cop off...cause when he brought the deer over, he gave me his card and told me to hunt that spot as much as I wanted, and he'd be glad to go over there and scoop up every deer that I shot. LOL.