A few years ago..it was on a doe day in Sussex, NJ...it was pouring all morning and my father and i sat about 200 yards apart from each other...we sat until about 9:30 saw nothing and just got absolutely soaked...we heard a few shots off in the distance but nothing around....we went oput for breakfast and went to a laundramat to get all of our clothes dried....then we headed bak to the woods..on the way i saw what looked liek 2 does standing in a field about 30 yards from the road...my dad pulled to the side next to another car when two guys hoppped out....not knowing the deer were standing rite there they started talking and spooked them right into a thicket...turns out they had been sleeping in the car all mornin waiting for the rain to stop and as we pulled in they woke up and teh rain was starting to calm down a bit...so me and my father proceeded down the road about 400 yards...we stopped got our gear together and he went on one side of the road and i went on the other...in spit of all the rain there was still about a half inch of snow on the ground...i walked into the woods about 200 yards and heard a gunsghot from where we had just come from....i figured one of the guys had taken a deer that we had just seen so i continued into the woods...as i walked a littel further i saw a few sets of fresh deer tracks..i could tell they were very fresh becaus eof the mud that was just kicked up on tiop from the creek bed that they just ran through..i then noticed that one had a small blood trail next to it..i saw no human tracks so i decided to follow it...after about a hgundred yards i saw teh deer about 40 yards away i took a shot and hit it but it kept running hard and i couldnt get a second shot off...so i kept following..it crossed teh road so i decided to go get my father...i got him and we tracked the deer for over a mile and a half ...by that time it was gettin late in the afternoon about 3:00-3:30...he then toild me that he would hate to loose the deer but even if we do find it now its gonna be a long drag out ...i was to excited to loose my first deer liek thatr so i talked him into letting me walk about 150 yards further...well sure enough i jumped hte deer that was bedded down on the other side of a rock wall...dropped it on the first shot it hopped bak up and dropped it again (that buckshot sure put a beating on the meat)..needless to say it was a loooong drag out but i didnt mind...would do it any day of the week...as long as i live i think i will never forget that one..