Man, that was close. It's hard to tell stuff with camera angles. I was shoutin', "How the hell is he just walking up the deer?!" until I saw the caption that there was a bush between you. Did the wind swirl? This is my first year with archery too and I'm in Cache. Maybe a belly crawl up to the bush? Then rise up on the side of the bush smoothly where it feels like you're going too slow but you have good control and make a clean swift shot. Easy for me to say watching it from my armchair! Nice job getting that close either way. Good luck.