The last two years haven't gone well for me deer hunting, just a small doe each year, I've gotten to where I don't seem to take deer hunting as seriously as I used to, but we still like to eat them. Anyway, I did a little better prepping and having a plan on my own place this year, we've had this 18 acre tract we live on five years now and this is the first one I've killed of of it. Almost didn't go out, haven't seen the rut activity we usually do by now and I'm not real fond of the crossbow. It was 60 degrees when I walked out this morning, set up in a natual blind I made buy brushing in a big cedar tree on a ridge overlooking a movement trail, plan worked like I figured it would. Always amazes me even after all these years how stealthy they can be and just suddenly materialize, I was being quite and alert and still didn't see him until I knew I only had a second or two to shoot before he was gone. Either my son or I will have to kill a couple more to fill the freezer back up, but it's a start.