RE: My first Deer
BigBuck - Glad to hear you got your first buck!
I got my first buck after 3 hard years of hunting between both Wi & IL seasons ( and also Iowa my first year! ). It came on the last day of the IL season. Had I shot it in Wi, I would have also won the buck pool, but since it was IL, it did not count.
I've now been hunting for 6 years, and did win the buck pool this year, with many memories, including the thread I posted "Trees - When they don't move" :-p