RE: Your first shot at a deer with bow....hit/miss?
It was when I was 13, hunting from the ground, had a buck and two does feeding on acorns right in front of me. The two does go straight and the buck angles right towards me. He is standing about 2-3 yards away crunching acorns and it was over for me by this point. I made the mistake of making direct eye contact with him and to this day I don't which one of us was more startled. Anyway he bails about 20 yards as I draw my bow and he stops broadside looking in my direction. I touch the release and proceed to spear a pine tree directly behind the buck, over his shoulder. This time he leaves for good. So, I missed but one of my most vivid hunting memories to date.