My first buck came 2 years ago when I was 23. (I' ve been deer hunting off and on since I was in middle school BTW) I had a favorite stand and had been seeing does out of it but was waiting for one of the bucks I knew was around. At about 5:30 I hear something behind me and turn and there he is, walking my way. The first I saw of him was a bright blonde patch between his antlers, he was a nice 8 pointer with an unusual brow tine on the left side. He came down the same trail I had used and I knew he was going to smell me. He stopped just off of my left side at about 27 yards and I drew, aimed and released. The arrow went right through him and into the ground and he took off running. I grabeed my grunt call and blew it as hard as I could and he stopped, looked back in my direction and started walking back. He stopped about 20 yards off to my right and laid down. I was trying to get another shot at him but there was too much brush and I didn' t want to scare him so I waited. About 5 minutes later 3 does came from another direction and started feeding off of my left side. I thought about taking one of them but didn' t want to be greedy so I waited. Another 15 minutes and I thought my buck was done so I grunted just to see if he' d raise his head. The does took off and the buck got up. I could tell he wasn' t doing to well though. He walked around to the front of my stand and laid down about 5 yds from me and he was done. I got down, went and checked and that was it. I was so excited I ran to my truck, grabbed my cell phone and called my buddy who was......out hunting so I called another friend and we went down and got him. It was such a great feeling to finally have gotten a buck!!!!! He was 8 points with a 16" spread. The right side was typical but the left side had a split main beam so it looked like he had a 10" brow tine. He looks great on my wall