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10-04-2008 | 09:14 AM

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From: Berwyn,IL.

First deer!

Not what I was hoping for. To be honest I would have taken a pass on her if I had a chance to size her up, but I don’t feel bad about taking the shot. Everything happened so fast. I had positioned myself between two trees in some brush. There was tall grass in front of me about fifteen feet away, and a little clearing to the right. I was concentrating on the area surrounding the clearing, when the rustle of brush and grass caught my attention. I looked over and could see the tail of the deer running and fast, coming my way. I fumbled around to get my release hooked up and drew back. When the fawn came out of the grass fifteen feet away all I could see is her head in my peep, I must have come down just a little when I released the arrow. The arrow entered the base of her neck and came out her back, she was about seven feet from me. Only after the shot did I realize she was a fawn, she tried to run but only got about twenty feet and fell. Holy sh*t! she was running right at me. I said that about a dozen times before getting control of myself. This is not how I pictured my first kill, everything was different. At first I felt a little ashamed[&o] for taking a fawn, but after a successful field dress,(another first) and thinking about how everything went down, I’m glad I took the shot. I did’nt choke, and it was a good learning experience.

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