Well my first Buck was a story. We got this new lease in Alabama and we are from Louisiana. I had gone in and missed a buck with my bow just the week before. So opening morning of gun I am up in a home made climber I built myself and day break comes along and here is the very same deer I just missed a week before walking my way. He was only a spike but hell I never shot a buck before. When he gets about fifty yards away, I take the shot and he runs straight at me and falls right under me at about 10 yards. Well he refused to die and kept trying to get up. Had to shoot again then climb down to get em. It was a bitter/sweet first deer. Since then I consentrate on a clean accurate shot. That was twenty years ago.