last year through the binos I watched a young kid shoot a tiny whitetail spike. He hit it but the deer ran off. I hiked over to them to find out it was the local fish and game guy and his son. My cousins had given him permission to shoot one off of their alfalfa field. His boy, maybe 12 years old, shot that deer with a .223. That bugged me a little. The warden had his kid shoot a deer with a .223? (right now i'm hoping your son didn't shoot that with a 223 hahaha).
We looked for several hours and never found it.