So it's deer opener. Cold morning, beautiful scenery, lovely snow. We even saw an otter on the road when we came in for lunch! But no deer. Until about 5 pm. I was in my stand and everything was so quite and I kinda zoned out. Either my head was down or I was staring off into the trees, whatever it was, I wasn't really paying any attention. And it was so quiet too! I looked down for a second and my heart started pounding. I was so excited! There, only about 25 yards from me, was this big o' deer! All I registered was that he was close, had long antlers (I'm almost certain it was a spike though), and that I needed to grab my gun. I took just a