Right on target with this.
All I have stated in my posts is to be sure of your target, surroundings and background, as well as patterning your gun and knowing what it will do with a particular load. All of those things are fundamentals that ANYONE should have learned BEFORE they go into the field.
If this was my kid I would have been happy it got his first deer but then we would have had a little conversation about shot selection. Because if the buck shot hadn't luckily hit that second deer in the spine a long track job would have started and most likely ended with a wounded lost deer.
Redkid, What choke you using that's pretty big spread of pellets especially if it was 00 buck.There are 9 pellets in a load.
One question redkid, Would you take that same shot again?