Got my first ever this year.... and it was with bow! Very small doe, but I dont care! I saw two giant bucks but one just caught me up in the tree and the other was quading back after i shot her...
I woke up at 530 in the morning at the cabin and it was raining.. When I got back up at 630 it was drizzling, some I said to myself "You cant get anything sitting here in the cabin" So I quaded down till I was a couple hundred yards away from my climber, climbed up and was testing my gear-pulling back my bow etc.... As Im doing this I look over into the thick brush and see something... Im like "No way, that must be some plant or something blowing in the wind. I looked closer and noticed it was a doe.. So I stood up and slowly drew back my bow hoping she would walk out in front of me soon.. Well, she didnt. I held my bow back for about a minute and a half, which seemed like forever. So I was forced to draw back down.She saw me doing this and ran about 15 yards. Im thinking "Damnit, Im not going to get her", thats when she turned right back around and walked 10 yards right in front of me. I drew back put the pin on her chest and let the arrow fly. I was so excited, I called my dad and told him I already shot a deer. I was in the stand for about 3 minutes. I climbed down, grabbed my bloody arrow (passed threw and stuck right into the ground behind her!) and quaded back up to the cabin. We waited about an hour and a half and went back down.. Since it was drizziling it was very hard to find a blood trail, and I knew the general direction she ran in, so we walked around for a bit. About 30 minutes later I found her about 250 yards behind the stand! I was so excited and did the gutting myself for the first time. Perfect Lung shot