I shot my first deer out of a stand I had put up for bow hunting. It was on an old logging trail and the stand actually hung out over the closest rut. The deer came by in the same rut and I may have been hanging out over him. The distance of the shot was vertical not horizontal. Probably about ten feet, all of it down. I felt a little silly shooting him with a scope sighted rifle sighted in for 200 yards when I could have probably killed him with a brick.
