Well the opening weekend of the season is here and gone. My better half got her one Sunday morning. She thought she was shooting a doe, but when she tracked it down it was a he with 1 inch spikes. He was a 1 1/2 old buck just had tiny spikes. She shot him at 50 yards with her optima using 240gr xtp's and 80grs of T7. She shot through both shoulders and it did some awesome damage. I told her I couldnt believe it ran anywhere, but it did manage to run about 40 yards. She was happy with him and she got her first deer of the season. Sorry but we didnt get any pics of him before we skinned him out. Me on the other hand never got to fire a shot. I saw 5 in a thicket but had no shot. Were headed back tomorrow to hunt the rest of the week. Good luck to all