I saw cars ahead swerving all over the road at night. They were dodging a doe that was hit and dragging itself across the road. By the time I stopped it was off the road, up against a fence. G33/357sig CorBon to the brain stem during a break in the traffic and I got the hell outa there!

Used a 45 Colt SAA (fixed sights, of course) for a deer this year. Mucho fun!

Crap! Evidently I shot her twice.

No, but I was in my friend's truck when he hit a buck. It somehow survived and limped away on a broken leg, so we chased it down (he didn't get too far- he was hurtin') and finished it off with the P89 he kept under his seat. Then we drug it back to his truck and well, a little bit more meat in the freezer. No since letting it go to waste.

Yes. Shot a button buck with the Police present inside of the city limits after hitting it with my truck opening day of gun season about 4-5 years ago. Have pics of wounds and the scene. Cop used my CCW and pumped 2 9mm rounds in it neck first. He turned and handed me my weapon back then the deer jumped up to run away and I shot it in the face to drop it.

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Yes. Deer thrashing along the side of the road. Hit with a car, bleeding pretty bad, not walking. I called the PSP, asked what to do. They told me to dispatch it. I don't wanna shoot something like that close range ever again.

Yes

Road injured elk.  Truck in front of me hit an elk, I stopped to make sure the driver was okay, elk was messed up but still alive so I dispatched him.

Had to shoot a doe that someone had hit with a car.

Ground hog at laser verified 42 yards in the mouth and out the bottom of its chest. Used my ccw HK VP9 dropped to ground prone and shot it wresting off my elbows. Have pictures of it I'll post once I get better service.
Ammo used was that new Sig 124gr v-crown hollow points, very accurate Ammo.

I forgot about the time I shot three pigs with one shot with my 458 socom.  Had to put a finishing shot into the one that I just paralyzed.

Yes, my wife hit a deer (actually straight ran it over like a monster truck over a pile of old cars). It was flopping around and suffering so I put it down with my XDS.

It was the weirdest thing, it actually jumped out of the brush and just flew under the front of the car. There was no running around or darting across the road at the last second. It was in the air as it fell under the front of the jeep.

ETA: I see we're adding round specs: 9mm 124 gr +p Remington Golden Saber. It was pretty gruesome, eyes popped right out of its head.

Last one was a Racoon one of my dgs came out of the woods with.  Had it by the neck in a stalmate. Contact shot to the Racoon's head while holding my dogs head. Blew its eyes out.

Many times lcr 357

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Shot a raccoon that was running up to me one night using my FNS 9. I just missed his head and put the round in his left shoulder. He quickly rethought coming at me and ran off. I stopped using Remington Golden Sabers as my carry rounds that night considering a  coon managed to shake it off. Haven't had the opportunity for another coon testing using Federal HSTs in my G26.

Several rattlesnakes.

Quite common in the TX panhandle.

Cats.
We're a dumping ground for unwanted cats.

Shot an attacking dog with my Glock 26 here in Phoenix.

Yes.

Used to carry a .38 snub S&W 638.
One day a bud wanted to run out and check a hog trap before we went into town.
Sure as shit there was hogs in the trap.
He went to get the rifle and realized he had forgotten the ammo.
So out came the .38. Pow Pow Pow Pow Pow

Used to climb an oak tree with a 1911 to nail hogs rooting for acorns.  200 grain XTPs with a stiff load of VV N350 is Instant lights out.

Glock 21c numerous rabbits from the holster. A couple or three birds.

An armadillo and snake with my CZ-75 compact. I'm tempted to go after the fucking prairie dogs at the Lubbock house but nooooooo you can't shoot on the edge of the city limits blablabla  

Lots of dogs, lots of deer and hogs, , the occasional squirrel or raccoon.  Have put down cattle, goats and a horse.

For honorable mention I did stomp a rattlesnake to death once.

Killed a copperhead many years ago.

I took my deer a couple years ago with my G22. And a horse last year with my G23.

no, but I met a dog that apparently knew what a gun was when he saw it.
he went from showing teeth and growling to walking away as soon as my pistol came level on his head.

neck shot a doe last week, amazingly didnt hit any arteries or anything life ending, just paralyzed her.  walked up and finished her off with my G19.

neck shot a doe last week with my .243, amazingly didnt hit any arteries or anything life ending, just paralyzed her.  walked up and finished her off with my G19.

Spring 1998 - took a wild bore with my Glock 30 firing .45 ball ammo.  :)   It did require two shots though....

Last year I was out bank fishing and my GSD brought an armadillo to me where I was.  I took out my CCW G19 ended his life right there.  The armadillo.

deer, rattlesnake, porcupine, fox, rabbit, cat etc

Several feral hogs have fallen to the S&W 296 in .44 Special.

A few stray dogs with my G17 and G26. When you live in the country it seems everyone thinks it's ok to drop off dogs. Most all of us just shoot them when they start creeping around.

And once when hog hunting a rabbit came out in the field and I shot it in the eye at almost 30 ft. Still one my best ever shots with a pistol. And ate that rabbit. So good.

Yes, a neighbor's Rottweiler, he had been spoken too about his dog's aggressive behavior before but basically said F*** You.  A few weeks later his "baby" attacked me and I drew and fired from the hip hitting the Rot in the shoulder, dog lived and was forever scared of me.  I called 911 and the CSO cited the owner for having a dangerous animal loose and violation of the state lease law.

No, I'm not an LEO but I was an MP once and yes I've been dog bit on three separate occasions and know what a dog looks like just before it attacks.

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Well, my woods CCW Glock 22 w 357 barrel.  Pig down

Plenty of snakes.  One big pissed off hog while out duck hunting with my Les Baer.

so you work in law enforcement?

While I split wood in the fall, I shoot squirrels that run out of the wood pile with my fs mp9.

Coons, possoms, and woodchucks have all been killed by the P3AT

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I just smoked a cottontail with my Glock 19 124gr HST about twenty minutes ago.

Yup.

Seven pointer that I hit too far back.  Wasn't a gut shot but he acted like it.
I was using my new crossbow and misjudged the yardage.  First shot completely missed second was terminal. Post-mortum showed liver bleeding all inside.
He walked slowly away, downhill, toward water, and I left the area.  Planning to come back in a couple of hours and pick up my dead dear.

Except he wasn't dead.

He was laying down looking at the world, had his chin resting on a log (I never seen a deer do that).
As I came closer I saw an ear move.
As I came a bit closer he lifted his head and looked at me.  He might have enough energy to actually get up and run some more.

I did not want to torture him any more so I took out my .45 (nothing special RIA 1911) and shot him in the chest.

The effect was immediate, and strangely anthropomorphic.  He exhaled an, "aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". and rolled over dead.

That was a 230grLRN, one of my reloads (and pretty mild at that).  Don't let anyone say reloads are not deadly, not even mild ones. Post-motum showed trauma to lungs/trachea.  Exited right side after breaking two ribs and causing massive contusion.
Range? probably not more than 30 feet.

Dispatched two wild hogs, after they were trapped, for transport to the butcher, for a friend.
Used the only thing I had on me as it was kinda impromptu.
My shield 9mm with 124 gr gold dots.
Two head shots and two dead hogs. The gold dots going through skull and bone make nasty exit wounds.

Possums and raccoons regularly, also with my duty gun, a Glock 34 with TLR-1. Once, I whacked a coyote at about 45 yards in the dark, using the TLR-1. I was very proud of that.

sadly, I didn't shoot an animal,  however I shot AT an animal, and it saved my ass.



I was taking a walk with my two sons,  5 and 2.  5 year old holding my hand, 2 year old riding on my shoulders.  walked past a storage unit out kinda in the country.  the gate around the unit was slightly cracked....

I am minding traffic to my left,  and not watching the storage unit.   Suddenly I hear a loud growl and a bark, I look to the right and about 50'ish yards away I see a rotweiller and what looks like an Akita, or Akita mix.  looked like a husky but smaller.

Rott is in the lead,  and coming like a missile.  The bigger husky looking dog is trailing and just barking, not serious about it.  

the two year old and the 5 year old see the dog at the same time and both freak out.  two year old tries to climb my head, and starts shrieking and clawing. 5 year old, on the ground turns and tries to run into traffic, I have to hold his hand to keep him out of the road.  

I am tilting left clamping my 2 year old's leg with my neck and shoulder trying to keep him from falling off. I'm fighting the 5 year old with my left and and trying to get through a coat, a sweatshirt and a tshirt with my right.

finally, after what seems like a week of trying get ahold of my G23 and yank it clear of my pants and snap fire at the dog just as it gets to me and is jumping to bite me.  I didn't have a chance to aim, straighten the gun, NOTHING. I completely gangster shot at the dog tipped to the left, gun canted, not even thinking of the sights, but the dog was 3 feet from me.  

I shot right at it's face,  but somehow,  impossibly, missed.  I think what happened was it was head down, and the second I shot,  the dog had lifted it's head to jump,  I must have literally shot right under it's face, missing by inches,

it somehow crumpled and rolled past my leg,  I was still trying to keep balance and keep the 5 year old from getting hit by a car.  The dog let out this mighty WELP! when I shot, and I thought I hit it, but as soon as it stopped it got it's feet under it and hauled ass for the fence like a raped ape, tail between it's legs and moving just as fast as when it came out. apparently a .40 SW going off in your face is a pretty effective deterrent.

the husky stood there for a second kind of  bewildered till the rott went hauling ass past it,  and it gave one last bark and followed the rott back into the fence.  

there was a guy coming out of the storage unit main office who saw the whole thing, he came running over and grabbed my 5 year old who was still FREAKING out while I got the gun holstered and got the 2 year old settled down.  

He said the same thing I was thinking, without a gun, I and at least one of the boys and probably both gets seriously mauled.  badly.   We got all sorted out and he actually wound up taking us back home, we were all shaken up bad.


he called animal control and reported the dogs,  they called me for a statement.  

it was EXTREMELY lucky I had the gun, I wasn't in habit of carrying much, but figured that since I had the boys with me, better safe than sorry.  and it was literally the FIRST time I'd ever carried with a bullet in the chamber.  First time ever. And I'm still not sure why I did that day.  Just got a feeling before I left to carry chambered. I still remember that,  cause I was not very comfortable with chambered carry in a glock.  I had never done it before and wasn't comfortable with it.   But did.

there was NO way to get a bullet in the chamber if I hadn't been already. My boy was tied up with my left hand and arm, and I was using my whole body to clamp my 2 year old to my neck and try and get through all the clothes and get to the gun in the couple seconds I had till the dog got to us.  

Truly a blessing, or incredible luck if you feel that way.  I have never carried without a bullet in chamber ever since.


that gun saved me and my boys from a severe mauling.   I have dealt with dogs my whole life, that dog was not putting on a show, he was not threatening, he was attacking.  He was jumping to bite us when I shot at him.

shooting under pressure is a BILLION times harder than it seems. it was worse than any competition I've ever been in.  I was in very good shape at the time, it was a year after I'd finished playing football and was still in great shape, and my heart was beating so fast after I had to sit down and get ahold of myself,  my pulse was off the charts, north of 150 easily and probably closer to 170 for a minute or so after I got sorted out.

it was that incident that will make me fight gun control tooth and nail forever. You don't always need to live in a big city and have crime around you to need protection. NOTHING would have done as effective of a job.  Even bear spray requires a couple hands to orient, get the safety latch off etc.


I have had to use my CCW 2 other times to shoot animals as well, but nothing nearly so dramatic.

once a fox literally ran into US in our car.  driving along, ten pm'ish,  a fox streaks out of the bushes and BASH right into the drivers side door. scared shit out of me.  I back up to see what it was and this poor fox is ass dragging itself in the road,  broken back. Only the front legs work.

I shot it to put it out of it's misery.


2nd time, my bowhunting partner and I were going bowhunting and saw a deer laying by the road,  head up but just laying there. we got out to see what was up and it just laid there. we walked right up to it.

it was also hurt bad,  looked like broken back,  it was just making this sad mewling noise and it'd keep dropping it's head.  We called Fish and Game and they said they were coming out.  but after 20 mintues they called back and said they couldn't get out there,  we were clear out by Nephi utah, and could we put it down.


so I had to shoot that deer.   it was sad, it looked like it had been there a couple days. I twas kinda off the side of the road in the grass, eyes all sunk in, tongue dry.  I was happy to put that poor thing down.

Those work parties are awful but shooting coworkers is bad. A Boar would have been a better target.

I finished off a pig with my Glock 19.

I shoot several deer a year along the side of roads with my G17.

Anchor shots on an aoudad (heart) and couple of hogs (middle of the X) with my sig p229 in .357 sig.

deer, dog, rabbit fox