This video perfectly illustrates what NOT to do after taking a shot. Never rush to check the game after a shot. Even if you’ve taken your time, check the game for signs of life before you approach. Any basic hunter education course will let you know to look at the eyes, if they’re closed, it’s alive. This hunter is too eager and almost pays a dire price for his impatience. Luckily for him he only gets a minor wound to his leg, antlers are sharp and getting gored in the gut or groin will end your hunting trip awfully quickly.

Nature show cameraman finds a deadly surprise guest hiding out in his bathroom
While on location in Indonesia, filming deadly reptiles in the wild for the BBC’s second entry into its Planet Earth series, cameraman Mark MacEwen discovered one of the beasts he had just captured on video had holed itself up in his bathroom. Not wanting to risk his own injury or worse at the jaws of...