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Long day today. I shot this 10pt at 6:45am. The deer did nothing I wanted it to do except get within shooting range. I was up the chittiest tree in Ohio and he was coming almost straight on and was on me before I could stand up. If I would have stood up the tree stand would have popped or he would have caught my movement. He was almost down wind and I was getting a little excited. So at 13 steps he stopped and acted like he was going to turn to my right and I couldn’t shoot that way and especially sitting down. So I made a bad decision and shot him facing me with his head down through his neck on purpose. I got about 12” of penetration and he ran about 20 yards and stopped. He acted like he wanted to bed down, but continued to walk very slowly and made a complete circle around me out of range till he was out of sight. He eventually went back the way he come from and I lost blood. Total tracking yards was 350 yards and the first 100 yards looked very promising. Here is a picture of the buck and the blood trail. I know what I did wrong and should have known better. I have killed close to 150 deer and still make mistakes.
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