Got a late start opening morning didn’t even get into my stand until 6:40. I had just gotten settled in when I hear what sounded like a deer getting out of it’s bed. I am over looking a foot plot to the west of me and a main trail to the east going to the back of my 11 acre parcel. I hoped that whatever this deer was that was getting out of it’s bed would head into my food plot for a morning snack. And sure enough he did I saw him come out of the pines to the west of me and could tell by his walk he was a buck. I grabbed my binoculars and could see his rack out past his ears but couldn’t tell much more then that because all of this had happened in the 10 minutes I was in the stand and it was literally first light. I set my binoculars down and grabbed my Remington model 700 VTR .308 and set it up on the shooting rail of my tree stand and looked through my Weaver 3x9x40 scope. He was at about 40 yards at this point and walking towards the end of my foot plot he put his head down and started eating the white clover peeking up through the snow. I was ready but I needed him to turn just a bit so I would have a clean shot. He obliged and I let the .308 bark!!! He started to run but fell as he ended the pines at the end of my foot plot he crashed through them and then silence. He made it just 20 yards and I found him right next to the main trail leading to the back of my property. My shortest opening morning hunt in my 25 years of hunting.