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I was sitting out in the tree stand around around 4:30 in the afternoon, it was nice out until it started to down pour and as I was just about to leave the stand around 6:15 I looked up and saw a beautiful 5 point staring right at me..I paused..then it looked down towards the grass and I picked my crossbow up and waited for him to turn broadside and that's when I went for the kill. I waited 45 minutes then started to look for my arrow and couldn't find it anywhere, we looked for a couple hours and then decided to call it a night. So we got up the next day to look for it and followed a deer trail and saw some blood on the tree...we kept looking and noticed there wasn't any blood for the longest time until we saw one little droplit of blood on a small green leaf..so we looked around for a couple of hours and we decided to take a break and walk back until my boyfriend saw something brown with antlers sticking out of some tall dead ferns, it was my buck! We were so ecstatic! We were so worried that we wouldn't find my deer. My first hunt by myself and my first buck..until that very moment when I saw the look on my boyfriend's face in disbelief. We found my buck...with no trail of blood...the only blood we saw was on the tree and that little droplit on the leaf...but every little sign helped. I'm so glad we didn't give up!