well this was my first year bowhunting and i think im in love. after seeing my buddies go bowhunting in the fall before we would go coon hunting i wanted something to do during the day while we waited for night to come so i decided i would buy a bow and see how i can do. well i got out to my farm and was talkin to our renter if he saw any deer around lately and he said that he has been seein a smaller buck and i thought he was talkin about the small fork that i have been seening all year long. but he said that it was a small 8 pt that would come pretty close to the buildings during the night. well i have been hunting the back part of my farm all year so i decided to move to about the middle of the farm and see if i can see something else besides the small forker. well i get up a tree and am sitting there i rattled about 4 times throughout the after noon and after my last series of callin i started to get bored. so i was staring out in the middle of no where and then all of a sudden a small 8 pt comes walkin to my left. he comes to a tree and starts licking a tree overhead so it gave me a chance to stand up. i pull back and shoot and i went right over his back. so close in fact that i hit his back. he circles around me and i have to re arrow and turn around 180 degrees. he sees me pull back and this time i hit him hard. complete pass through and blood all over the place. i see him run out into the corn field and he falls. i couldnt believe it. it happend so fast. i couldnt believe i didnt get buck fever that bad. i mean i had it but i thought the first deer i would draw at i would be all over the place with the pins. but it was a nice 8 pt for my first deer. it was a big bodied deer and the neck was large as well. i want to thank everyone on here for giving tips and tricks to this new great way of hunting. i might now go and buy a turkey tag and see how i do there. thanks again. Peter.

ill get my pics up here once i get the camera developed.