My first deer

[A-5]

Good job!

[ReconLdr]

Good job and great story.... Enjoy those backstraps, the surely will be quite tender and tasty!!!!

[jerkin]

Good job and great story.... Enjoy those backstraps, the surely will be quite tender and tasty!!!!

Not as tasty as those loins marinated in urine, yummy. Just kidding OP, lol.

[mosseater]

Congrats on the first one. May the floodgates be opened, and may the excitement never leave you. One comment, and this isn't necessarily a criticism, just a thought.

You mentioned after several paragraphs you chambered a round and flicked off the scope caps. It's your choice of course how safe you want to be. But as someone who doesn't get to spend as much time in the woods as I'd like, someone who's killed quite a few deer in his life and knows how quickly the opportunity can come and go, I feel confident in saying at some point you will miss a nice deer because you weren't prepared for that 5 seconds of opportunity because your chamber was empty. As I said your choice, but I'm betting most of us have one in the pipe as soon as we're safe and legal in the stand. Again, congrats and very good story.

[Yoder]

Great story. Sounds like you did great for your first deer. Some guys almost puke on thier shoes gutting their first deer. I usually gut the deer and leave the bladder in until I get home. Then I cut the pelvis with a saw and remove the bladder. That way I don't have to worry about accidently cutting it and having it leak all over the meat.

I hope you get another one tomorrow. Good luck.

[staylo]

Not as tasty as those loins marinated in urine, yummy. Just kidding OP, lol.

Don't laugh. That may be exactly what I did. **loser!**

[GrumpyBear]

Hey first deer stuff happens.

Probably will be fine.

[Yoder]

I seen Bear Grylls drink his own urine, how bad could it be?