Six Five, yea I got one, but it was more of a "mercy killing" than anything. The weather sucked opening weekend with it being cloudy and misty and the deer were not moving. I saw nothing in the morning and when we were driving draws midday, all we got up were a few does and one small buck. I went out in the afternoon and sat in a stand that is in a tree line overlooking a marsh and CRP field we set up. I was out there about an hour and was looking over my right shoulder checking out a field behind me and thought I heard something to my left. I looked to the south and didn't see anything, and then looked down and right below my stand, right next to the ladder was a buck staring straight up at me. It had a decent rack, but nothing like the one I got last year, so I was going to let it go because we have a rule on our farm that if we shoot a buck, we mount it or pay $300 (trying to keep everyone from shooting small ones so we can hopefullly have many big ones in the future). Once it saw me, it took off running and I noticed it had an arrow sticking out of the opposite side of it. I thought it was in its neck, so I knew it wouldn't live very much longer and decided to try and bag it. I had to wait until it got out a ways as it got behind some branches in the tree next to me, I shot once and missed, it stopped, I shot again and bilogical termination (that is what a prosecutor who is one of the other owners calls it) had been achieved. Turns out the arrow was in his head, not the neck like I thought, so it probably would have died in the near future anyway. There weren't any feathers left on the arrow, so he had been trying to rid himself of it for a while. Someone on the neighboring farm probably took a pot shot at because it wasn't in very far. I think I still have your email and will send you a picture. Good Luck the rest of the season.
