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Old 09-06-2010 | 07:14 AM
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My first time hunting (anything, with anything), I shot at a button buck (being a greenhorn, I thought it was a doe) at about 15 yards. He ran off about 10 yards and stopped behind a small pine tree and looked back at where he had been standing. My heart was racing about a million miles an hour. I was sure I had hit him, but then why did he stop and look back, apprently unharmed? Then I looked down, where he was staring, where he had been standing, and I saw my arrow sticking in the ground. I cursed myself for missing completely at such close range and reached for another arrow, since the deer was focused on the ground. Just as my hand reached my quiver, the deer stumbled downhill about 10 yards and dropped. It was a perfect double-lung shot, and the young deer just didn't know what hit it or what happened. And I thought I completely missed it!
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