First buck I ever shot, I was 11 or 12 and out squirrel hunting alone. I was sitting behind a big log and he was running straight at me, shot him in the neck as he jumped the log, maybe 3 feet from the end of the barrel of my 20ga Ithaca single shot.
The paper wadding from the low brass #8 was in his neck, he was a little forked horn Whitetail.
