Shooting a deer is like shooting a can off a fence post for me. I'm a meat hunter and my number one concern is bullet placement so I don't ruin meat, gut shoot, or have to try and recover a deer from God knows where! The other side to that, is that in this area, if one runs more than a hundred yards there's a good chance you'll be trespassing to try and recover it! My preferred method is a neck shot to drop them in their tracks!
I will admit that as a teenager I was susceptible to buck feaver but it faded with time. A big mistake that causes a bunch of wounded deer is not realizing its a 3D target! You've got to imagine your projectiles path of travel through the animal. I'm amazed at the number of people that put hair in the scope and pull the trigger with no thought about where the bullet will go. Do you hold in the same spot if the deer is quartering twards you as away? If your not very careful you can tear up a bunch of meat without hitting any vitals! Then you get to see just how far a three legged deer can run!
The OP reminds my of "Escanaba in the Moonlight", with the "buckless UPer"!