Last Saturday I went to stalk chamois. This year shift meant for me a buck 2-3 years old, or older than 8. The age group 4-7 has to be left untouched. In alternative I could shoot a doe or a yearling.
In a pleasant morning, at the beginning my friend and me saw nothing. Then, above a ravine under a small cave we saw a beast. We went closer, discovering that it was a doe, with a young buck 2-3 years old and a yearling.
The doe appeared to be without kid, because the "milk processing device" wasn't visible. Range 300 m, angle of site 30°. I decided to have a go.
While my friend was watching, with the corner of his eye he saw a group of tourists coming toward us. He said he informed me, but I didn't hear (I am rather deaf).
I shot. The rifle jumped, due to high angle and I didn't see the reaction. My friend, who just dropped the bino, saw with naked eye the doe running behind bushes and trees.
What to do? My friend tried to contact his son, hunting not far from us, but the phone doesn'work in that valley.
We decided to go down and call our gamekeeper to come with his Bavarian.
We went down, phoned him, and within one and a half hour the dog began to search.
On the the spot where the doe was standing the dog didn't show any reaction but he moved in the escape direction. After 50 meters some blood drops where visible on the ground. Another 50 meters and the dog started barking near the dead doe.
It was a heart shot.
Had the young hunter helped us searching he wouldn't find any trace and we would have concluded that I missed.
Morale: Whenever possible, use a dog.

To excuse my shot with the mountaineers coming I hasten to say that I saw them but they were quite far from us and when I shot the closest one was 50-60 meters away.
My friend was suggesting not to shoot because he was afraid of the city dweller objection to killing creatures.