Two good friends of mine shot does in the morning.

In a diff part of the state, my boss, his best friend, and my bosses son all scored sat afternoon.

I bounced work at noon and headed for the woods. In the tree by about 3pm and stuck a big doe at 445pm. Her shoulder was behind a sapling about 4" in diameter... I had plenty of space but got a bit tree shy and the shot went about 3" further back than I would have liked. Looked at the arrow through the binos and the ground looked like I'd shot her with a rifle... blood sprayed 7 or 8 feet back... arrow totally coated in blood. Made me feel better, at first I thought the shot was pure guts. I figured I at least had all of the liver and possibly a lung.

Waited til after dark and got myself lost as a mo-fo not 15 yards from where I shot her.... spent 45 minutes wandering around lost and came back in the AM with my best friend and found her less than half an hour... she didn't go 60 yards. I got all of the liver and one lung... it was in the upper 40s overnight.... no meat loss at all.

Saw several does and fawns in addition to the one I shot that night and called a group of young deer in to right under the stand... could have caught a fawn in a cast net.... pretty neat watching them play around and butt heads and box each other.... awfully cute little things.

Shot a squirrel with the bow as well, and missed another. Pretty good opener.