Thanks everyone for the comments.

Mike - sometimes it takes several "pills" to help the poor animals out.

Coues - I actually cut my hand too with my trusty leatherman gutting knife (well it did the job as it was the only knife I had). So some of the blood was mine.

Anne - well you do look like the classic profile of a mass-murderer so he people in the diner should have been worried

Especially if they had big hairy coats and a couple of horns.

mickey - "covered in blood and looking like the victim of an assault". You do insist on using those cannons!

bigfive - hope you CAN be there for one this year!

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Now I want some of your deer hunting stories. Or bucks, boks or whatever they are called. This is a wonderful little (cheap) Aussie deer booklet to giveaway.