Dead deer

My husband loves "Hunting shooting and fishing". Yesterday he had arranged a days stalking. This involves paying and then if you are lucky shooting a deer after hours crawling around in the wet heather and bog. It is something I would pay not to do but , we are all different. Most people stalk earlier in the year when you can shoot stags (with antlers). This is expensive because it is popular. But the hinds (no antlers) still have to be culled every year. They can be shot now and it is much cheaper. It is all  very closely controlled and beforehand you have to have your shooting skills and your gun's accuracy checked by the keeper. He tells you what to shoot and when. The most important thing is safety, the next is humanity ie to kill the deer outright if possible, so that it does not suffer.
So my husband set off in the car at daybreak. Suddenly a deer jumped in front of the car from trees on one side. He didn't even have time to brake before it hit. Luckily he was going slowly or he might have been killed. He pulled in to find the deer but there was no sign of it, it had managed to run away. However, it must have had fatal injuries. It would have gone on to die a horrible slow death.
What strikes me here is the irony. A gun is considered to be such a dangerous machine BUT so is a car.
The deer he shot later in the day after several hours stalking would never have known it was shot, it died instantly. The animal hit by the car would have suffered badly for some time before it died.