Congrats on the kill!! I had a similar situation this Saturday. It was opening day of rifle season. I thought about not taking the rifle out this year and just bow hunting right through the whole season, but since I've only taken one deer with my rifle, I thought I'd at least give it one more year. After sitting several hours in a ground blind and not seeing anything, I decided to go back to the stand I got busted in last week. I figured since I hadn't seen anything in the blind and it had been almost a weeks since I sat in my stand, I'd give it another try. The past week has been rough, I might post the bad luck in a story later. Anyway, I'm in the stand with the rifle and nothing for the first two hours. All the sudden I hear what sounds like a train plowing through the woods. I barely have time to stand up and look behind me when I see this doe trucking right toward me. It all happened so quick, she was running right toward my stand. I kept wondering how the heck am I going to get her to stop. I've seen in some hunting showshowthey make a noise like a mouth grunt to get deer to stop, so I give it a try. I let out this awful "mmmmmaaaaaaaaahhhhhh" that was loud and probably way too long, but she stopped. That was the first time I've tried stopping a deer like that. So I pull the old rifle up and pull the trigger. Dirt goes flying everywhere and she bolts. I wait about 30 minutes get down and see no hair, no blood, nothing. I missed!!![:@] She was only probably 5 yards from my stand. I know I could have hit her with my bow and couldn't figure out how in the heck I missed with the rifle (guess I need to practice a bit more). I've practiced a ton with my bow and know I can hit the target with it (not just the target, I have good groups too, but haven't had the gun out or shot it since I killed my doe last year. I decided to check the sights the next day and they were still on, so I guess it was just me. I pushed the shot or something, but she didn't give me a second chance.