Really not much of a story to tell. I shot him behind my house (gotta love those land owner tags). He never knew I was there. I had some problems with some small branches in the way that caused the arrow to hit back farther than I wanted, but at less than ten yards even I have a hard time goofing up the shot.

Because he was in the company of another buck I almost waited to long to shoot. My experience has been the smaller animal is usually the first in line when they stop out, so when this one walked out, and I heard another animal in the brush, I waited to see how big the second animal was. As fate would have it, it was a much smaller buck. By this time, the bigger buck had walked past my shooting lane and into a plum thicket not quite ten yards away. He stopped in an area where there was an opening that gave a very small but clear passage to his vitals, no problem. What I didn't consider was the viciousness of the wind. When I let the shot go from twenty feet up, the cross wind caused the arrow to fishtail some, which in turn caused it to catch the edge of the branches hence making the shot impact farther back than I wanted. I was concerned so I gave him plenty of time to expire. Obviously it had a happy ending for everyone except the buck.