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while a senior in high school I sat in an oak dropping acorns with by Ben Pearson Hunter. I had never taken a deer with a bow. A bobcat stalked in on a doe and two fawns of the year and I hit it in the shoulder with the Bear Razor Head tipped MicroFlight.

After retrieving the cat I climbed the tree again. 30 minutes later a big 10 point buck came by in front of me on the same trail the bobcat had used. I don't know if it dropped at the sound or what but the arrow went right over its back.

It was many years later before archery videos would show how often deer duck an arrow, but the misery of missing that shot had already stabbed at me for ages.