Three shots on the biggest whitetail I had ever seen at that point, 152” ten point.
But it was with a muzzleloader. Back when shooting hours in Illinois ended at sunset, saw the buck 70 yards away with 10 minutes left for legal shooting. First shot slightly quartering to me broke the left shoulder. Buck ran/stumbled toward me and laid down 12 yards off the base of the tree I was in. Waited a couple minutes for him to expire then looked at my watch and only had 5 minutes left on shooting hours. Didn’t want him to get up and stumble off after hours. Reloaded and fired a steep angle shot to anchor him. He jumped up, ran 40 yards and laid down again with his head up looking around. I fired shot three with 2 minutes on the clock and he tipped over for good. Every shot was fatal but the clock pressured me to keep shooting. I hated shooting hours ending when you still had a good 30 minutes of daylight left. They changed that rule a few years later.
