RE: What you do before the shot!
Looks like a good checklist. The first one I actually shot at went something like this I believe:
1. Holy crap that thing is close enough to shoot at
2. Draw the bow while shaking uncontrolably and trying to swallow your heart which is now beating in your mouth.
3.This thing is gonna hear my heart beating I better shoot.
4. Look through the peep site and as soon as all the pins are on the deer jerk the release with the uncontrolable shaking.
5. See the miss as you jerk your head to the side to watch and see if you hit it.
6. Sit down so you don't fall out of the tree as everything is going in and out of focus.
7. Try to figure out what the heck went wrong as you are still shaking uncontrolably and the world is still out of focus. Try to convince yourself you are just excited and your heart can't possibly have moved up your chest and into the back of your throat.
Hope you have better luck/control than I did but it was still one of my fondest memories, that first shot at a deer.