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Thanks guys, I hope the rest of have some good luck in your seasons also. I learned the hard way, persistence does pay off!

MQ1shooter, I'll have a bigger pic posted on monday, my computer at home is limping on one leg, I gotta try it at work.

This was without a doubt the hunt that caused the biggest adrenaline rush of my career. I heard him grunting LOUDLY while chasing does around in the creek bottom 100 yards away. Never saw a deer down there, to many leaves on the trees. I heard his grunt, stood up on my summit viper and grunted with my voice, and less than 10 seconds later he was on me! He came to my left at a fast pace, grunting like a pig; I drew,anchored, bent over the stand rail, and grunted again lower with my own voice and he stopped at 12 yards.............behind a dead limb. The only gap I had was in the center of the body, so I pinned him in the liver, and he took 3 leaps across the creek and started the death walk right away. I watched him for about 30 seconds and then thought to myself, "dummy, 4 holes are better than 2!" I knew he was 35 yards dead on, and I 12 ringed his airbags. I swear, it took 5 minutes for that second arrow to hit home, I could see thered and white fletchings spinning on the way there!But I knew when the release went off, it wasahome run. He trucked up the creek bank another 50 yards, stumbled over a fence, and then it was sleepy time. He expired 70 yards from my tree. It was the longest climb down a tree I ever had with my summit. I wanted to jump out! I took enough pics to fill a magazine when I got home. Now I usually don't shoot deer again unless necessary, but I know that liver shot deer can either die right away, or lay down close to you and look at you for 2 hours.I've had it go both ways for me. I just felt at that moment, with the size of he animal I was dealing with, a second arrow would make it easier on my tracking, and speed up his expiration date.
Mikey