One of the first head shots I made I was about 9 years old still hunting with my dad in a box stand in the middle of a cutover. Small doe walks out and after asking my dad for 30 minutes to let me shoot it, he finally gives in. But says gotta be a head shot cause we are in the middle of this cutover. I shoot and the deer crumbles. My dad tells me to go look and make sure it isn't a button buck. I get about 3-4 steps from it and it jumps up and is looking at me. I had hit it in the nose and blew its whole face off. Jaws and everything. It was a terrible sight. I still feel bad to this day. Then to top it off my dad walks up and tries to cut its throat but it was young and had a lot of flabby skin and he couldn't cut through it. He tried to just stab it in the neck and it kicked him in the hand splitting his hand wide open. He had to get stitches. Last time I have tried to cut the throat on a deer.
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