Congratulations To your wife DOG!
My first deer was about a 70 lb fawn. It was 20 years ago now. At the time we weren't allowed to hunt until we were 15 and I had been introduced to archery yet! We did drives with the shotguns.
It was about the 3rd day into the hunt and we started a drive which began at the edge of a gas line right Of way. I took about three steps into the long grass and up jumped a deer to which looked to me as a doe wthe way it jumped. I pulled the shotgun up and hit it with the SSG out of my Ithaca model 37. It happened to be a button buck.
To this day I still remember the fever set in while sitting there
AL