when my daughter was 9 she was too little to hold the gun up so we laid on the ground with the gun on a mound of dirt. it was 18degrees out when she said she saw a buck looking at us from the side. I didn't see anything but told her to shoot it. well she stood up and moved the gun to another mound of dirt and I was pretty sure the buck was gone by then. but then the gun went off in front of my face and I did hear something run off. we looked for a while and didn't find blood till later I saw a white belly on the ground but kept quite about it. I then told her that there probably wasn't a deer at all or she missed and we needed to go home. I let her lead the way but lead her by the deer which she found. It wasn't the monster buck she was telling me it was, but it was a nice tall six pointer.