Hey...thanks for all of the fun replys. It kind of shows why bowhunting is so fun...and also a fun process. I thought I would give you a little bit more info than probablly any of you want about me...but it also shows where I've come from in this fun game. I'm in my mid 40's and grew up in Indiana in a section of the state where I literally saw my first deer close to home in a picked corn field after I had went to college. I worked a minimum wage job during high school and baled hay and bought a Bear Blacktail hunter for $65.00 when I was 16. At 17 a buddy and I went to Michigan, bought non-resident tags, (our parents let us drive the 6hrs. and say its still better than video games!) with money we had saved (75 bucks at the time on 3.15/hr jobs), and set out to be bowhunters. My blacktail would shoot a whopping 158/sec. and that was before I stuck 145 gr. broadhead on it. None of our parents bow hunted...so it was all new. And somehow...I set up a ground blind behind some brush and shot a doe that very first morning. That was almost 30 years ago, and I'm still enjoying it. Fast forward those 27 years...and there I was sitting in a tree with a beautiful deer less than 12 yards away. I've had the privalege of shooting two deer in the lower 170s, and I own less than 30 acres of land. And so...I watched him walk, and I can still see him, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I don't begrudge anyone who shoots whatever they enjoy...as long as it is ethical, and done with a deep sense of thankfulness that we can all enjoy being out this fall. And by the way, if someone shoots him who has never had the privalege of shooting a mature deer, and it makes a lifetime memory...then I'm glad I let him walk. Enjoy this fall...be thankful to the good Lord above for our freedoms and His bounty...and do it the right way!