Read your post and think you invested a fair amount of time. That's happened to me before. Doesn't take much...miscalculation of yardage, slight flinch, arrow knicks a twig, etc...arrow drops and hits the leg under the near side lung. Hit a nice 8 pt like that one year and got him during gun season. At least you are seeing good bucks. Everything here is nocturnal. Ruts coming though!