Mauser way to go, Nice eating deer and one to be proud over with it being your first with the flinter. You will remember this deer more than any others thru your years of hunting. Those close up shots can be fun.

To many others put to much on what one chooses to shoot. They need to remember meat is meat weather it come from a young deer or an older one. I would of done the same as you and would of been whooping it up so every one could here me. Shooting a deer with a flinter is something that not every hunter does in there life time. once again congrats on a fine deer.