Congrats on your first.

I found my first the first time out. It was a 5 point side to a 2 year old buck. Thats also the last one I found, I went out 2 times that year and looked field edges and last year I only had time to go out once. This year I' ve looked around the fields around the house and havent finished that yet but I also went to the hedge row that my stand overlooks and there is alot of fresh sign and I walked all through the trails on that thing and all I found was a dead buck. Dead while still in velvet, 2 year it looked like but that would only be a guess, not enough to take of the horns one side about 6" with no tines and the other is about 1" , coyotes had got to it of course but I found one hell of a scrape, I know...too late, it was about 4 ft. across and about 3 ft. front to back. I walked this 200yd.X20yd. hedge row and walked all 4 trails in and out of it and through both thickets with more briar than any sane person would walk through, but I did it, but to no avail horn wise, still came home hornless but got to scout and had fun doin it, guess thats what really counts