Even though I hadn't killed any deer, I was on my 4 deer rifle by then, which was a Remington 700 BDL in 270 win topped off with a Weaver 2x7 widefield scope and a Canjar Trigger. My first deer was killed at around 200yds with an offhand shot, I hit it in the top of the back and it went down right there. When my grandfather asked me where the deer was and where I was when I shot, and I showed him, he didn't hardly believe it. I can still remember him saying " you shot that deer from all the way up there?"

Admittedly, I wasn't much of a deer hunter back then, and I had blown a few shots in the past, usually at running deer. So I had spent quite at bit of time practicing and tuning my rifle, which was a good lesson for me. Because for several years after that, and before, I learned the hardway that usually I would get maybe one decent chance at a buck during a whole deer season and if I blew it, I usually blew my year. It seems like lately, nothing much has changed, although the deer are more plentiful then back then.