My best hunt to date was watching my dad's '05 opening weekend buck expire in front of me...

I had been watching a couple of does milling around my stand for the first 15 minutes of shooting light when I pick up a deer moving from my right. I quickly realize it is a shooter buck and he is closing quickly.

In one motion I stand and begin to draw... He's at 25 yds quartering towards me, I'm waiting for him to give me a better shot... He's now at 20yds...

Wait... Did he just do what I think he just did???

Yep... the buck just pile drived head first into the ground and paused there for a second, and then ploped over dead as a doornail.

At this point I'm stillatfulldraw, unable to believe what just happened. I give my dad a call and it turns out he had shot the buck about 150 yds away in his tree. My heart was pounding as if I had shot the buck himself.

To this date that is the most exciting hunt I have ever been on.