Having said that I've always enjoyed the helpful and friendly nature of this site and should have joined long ago. The time has come and I can't put off joining any longer 
Yesterday morning I went out alone to a spot we have been using a couple times per week. We've never been there without seeing deer. So yesterdays forecast was to be a nice day and I wasn't able to convince my friend to join me for the morning...instead he wanted to clean out evethroughs etc first thing. I arrived at my ladder stand in the dark only to hear deer departing. Climbed up and waited for first light. Saw a beautiful sunrise emerge in the east. Once the sun appeared over the horizon I felt myself comfortably snoozing...of all things
. Much to my surprise I realized a doe had walked under my stand 
and was now beyond my shooting lane. Watched her proceed and eat at an apple tree then she later disappeared from view. About 5 minutes afterward when I'm no longer snoozing a large buck with "antlers out to here" walks by. Long story short...27 yard shot, donkey kick, 60 yard recovery and a pass thru hitting both lungs. There's 9 points total and rather fair mass to the rack. Inside measures 17.5" teeth look to be 3.5 years of age. I would never have imagined seeing such a deer from my stand let alone having it come so close and it's far more deer than I ever though of tangling with. My bow is all factory, nothing changed or modified in any way and I can't say enough good things about how straight forward and well designed these are and they literally shoot like a dream.
I stopped off at my friends house on the way home and surprisingly he had the yard work completed. He was inquisitive and wanted to know what I had seen while gone... so I showed him
then he wished he had changed his mind and joined me.I'm hoping these pics will show properly.
