Great story,

Congrats on a great first deer. I hope you get some practice in on field dressing though.

One suggestion if you do decide to get a gun for hunting. I'd suggest a combo shotgun. Slug barrel and vented barrel. You can deer hunt and small game as well. Maybe even turkeys eventually. It would save you the money of buying several guns.

BTW sounds like you got a special lady there. Take good care of her my friend.

Jason