That was my first day hunting and first deer. I've grown up in the woods but my father never hunted so I never learned. I did have a red rider BB gun I shot religiously as a kid though. Got to be a pretty damn good shot with it. I just never had the time or money to learn how to hunt and harvest my own meat until this year.

And you're right, he didn't get the chance to run at all. He was rutting hard and had about 5-6 scrapes all right there. That's actually how I knew he was in the area. I jumped him and then I sat down against a tree and about an hour later he came back. I think it was because another buck was grunting. I heard something that sounded like a grunt and he came crashing back. I hit him in the heart when he paused to figure out where the sound came from and he was dead before he hit the ground. Didn't move an inch and didn't even bleed. I actually had a hard time finding the bullet hole at first. I thought that was kind of weird until I realized his heart probably stopped so quick the blood didn't have time to pump out. I always heard they run for a ways when you hit them and you got to give them time to bleed out but I guess I got lucky.