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Hi my name is Joey I'm 16 and this was my first year hunting. I hunt here in Bloomington right by the causeway. On opening day i counted 68 shot from right when it was getting light out side till the sun was just hitting me in the face in my tree stand.

I was sitting up there for a while, probably around 9 or 9:30 I was like there aren't going to be any deer come by here so i was looking around and then i looked right behind me and there was a spike. I turned and shot it dropped it right there. I was shaking so bad it was crazy. I know it was just a spike but hey it was the first i had a chance at so i had to shoot it. My step dad and his son was back in the woods to they didn't see anything besides cyoties. The good thing about that spike was that they tagged it as a doe so i could still get a buck!

Well it was the following Monday of opening Muzzle loader, I was just heading in the woods behind my house and i was walking through this little field when I thought I would stop and see if anything was in there. I was looking around didn't see anything but I could hear something scrapping the ground, I looked down by where I heard the sound and i seen a deer I thought it was a doe so I got my Binoculars out and i seen one antler couldn't see anymore from all the tall grass so i just hoped it was a big buck it had a big body so I shot. Now the deer was kinda facing towards me so the best shot i had was the shoulder couldn't get behind it. You know how it is when you first start hunting you don't wait you just shot it, well thats how I was anyways, well anyways I shot, the smoke cleared the deer was running away from me then all of a sudden he turns around running right towards to I stand really still he gets closer I mean like 20ft so I start running backwards then he cuts off to the left of me running towards the house. I thought he was an 8 or 10 pointer. So I reload breaking the ramrod cause I so shaky I radio'd back home and told em' about it, went to look for blood well i didn't see any blood. The longer I stood the more mad I got so I said screw I was just going to go home. Well about 30 to 35 yards from the field right at the top off the trail there was dead so I stopped I didn't walk up to him I just counted the points, he was an 8 pointer so hurried back home we got the truck and went back and got him. I've got pictures but I don't have them developed yet I'll put them on here when I get them. So now I'm saving to get him mounted. The only bad thing about him was he wasn't ruttin yet but oh well my first Buck!

So now i can't wait till next years gun season I'll be out there!!:)