Guess I will add mine to the list of firsts. I was injured in a terrible car accident that destroyed my left shoulder. WV finally passed a crossbow permit system for handicapped. I was back in the woods but didn't feel as if I was Bowhunting.

I finally got serious with it and realized it requires the same basic mental shot checklist and followthrough.

Saturday evening I took this WV Forkhorn at dark as he cautiously approached a feeding area. The shot was about 12yds sharp quartering toward me....my favorite shot, but lets not go there again. The Horton Hunter XS 200 completely shattered the shoulder "paddlebone" and continued on to take out both lungs and the liver. He traveled aprox 60yds on a "dead" run (pun intended) complete with the obligatory log crash at the end. He isn't a trophy to some, but to me he is a very important deer. You see since the accident I felt a huge sense of loss in that I was not able to use a bow...my passion in life. Harvesting this buck made me feel like I was bowhunting again and caused my feeling of loss to become one of change. I can handle change.

Thanks for looking and sharing.