Coup de Grace

[high country]

 if you cut your hand on a broadhead from sliding your hand down 30" of arrow shaft, you deserve to be eliminated from the gene pool.

[Mangy]

Easy decision for me, finish it...stick em again, of course with a legal broadhead.  However, I have been lucky and have only had to do this once. 

You would have to check the regs but you could carry one of those Cold Steel Samburu spears and practice your spear chucking on your wounded game....just an idea.  I think that's the spear they use on that Relentless Pursuit hunting show for pig hunting.

[Annette]

One of the things that comes to mind is you don't know how death works.....When you interupt the circulation or air the lack of that to the brain causes the animal to faint with in secconds.. The other movement is involentary muscle jerking as death takes place, no pain at that point, so walk away and give it a few minunets  to "EXPIRE"

[hillbilli]

I have used the knife on a deer crippled by a car. I have seen someone hesitate to shoot a second arrow at a clearly fatally hit deer only to have the deer get to his feet and dissapear into a swamp- we were not able to track him in there and lost the deer. remember that you cant always tell how good your hit is.. and even when you can- I've seen deer hit correctly run as much as 150 yds.  I highly recommend shooting another arrow (broadhead of course) into the deer. when you hit a deer you will almost always recover and be able to reuse the arrow, and good broadheads can almost always be reused(I use muzzy)-even if it cant the damage to the broadhead is well worth the peace of mind.

[wayner]

I wouldnt recomend cutting its throat. My neighbor and I tried that a couple of years ago with a buck Dont want to thread jack so I wont get into details, but we still get a good laugh over that one. Next time I will just put another arrow in it

[lokidog]

Got the crap kicked out of me trying to finish a doe off with my knife.  Shot her square in the eye with the ML, don't ask....  She had no control but man those legs could kick!   

If it is still alive, my motto is stick another hole in it.  This year's buck (MF) went down with a high, above the spine shot.  Since I was next to the garage, I quick grabbed my bow and heart/lunged him to  bleed him out, nice pink meat.

Many years ago, I shot a bull five times with four arrows...  first one was a lung hit but he just did not want to go down.  Darn tough critters.

[724wd]

I wouldnt recomend cutting its throat. My neighbor and I tried that a couple of years ago with a buck D

that's been my experience, just checking what you all do.