I think it’s worth mentioning, for the good of the order, that I screwed up with my setup. I really should have known better. I should have expected a deer of that caliber to circle downwind of the decoy… and knowing that, I should have put myself further downwind of the decoy. If I would have been just 20 yards further to my north/northwest, that buck would have been inside bow range when he hit the brakes. That lack of foresight on my part made all the difference in success vs failure. Always something to be learned… oftentimes the hard way.