Manhunt on Big Island

[MarkP]

I was told this story by a co-worker who supposedly witnessed the event first hand:

Co-worker and fellow hunter were walking through the woods looking for whitetail deer. Fellow hunter was in front.
They step into a small clearing and low and behold there is a deer standing there like 5 to 10 yards away, basically point blank range if you have a modern firearm. Fellow hunter had a pump action shotgun that he was holding across his chest with barrel pointed up. Fellow hunter commenced firing and emptied shotgun.....into the air (fortunately), shooting branch off tree.

Co-worker berated fellow hunter for missing deer. Fellow hunter just stood there repeating "I got him. I shot right at him." Fellow hunter insisted he had lowered the gun and shot the deer several times despite co-worker's testimony and physical evidence of shot-up foliage raining down on them.

So not surprised at all that nobody shot out the tires, which is Hollywood bull**** anyway. Depending on caliber and hotness of load, bullet can bounce back and injure or kill shooter, too.