I sat in silence. Slowly but surely, I returned into the world. I noticed the cold wind, the soreness in my left hand, the sound of the approaching truck, the sight of the power plant a few miles to the west, the grass and sagebrush twitching in the wind, and the numbness of my foot below my butt. 

"I better move my legs." I whispered as I watched myself place my right hand on barren ground and unfolded my legs. 

Mike steadied my rifle on the tripod, and looked through his binoculars one final time. 

"Ok... Now we can go." Mike whispered as he stood up. 

Mike helped me to my feet, then handed me my rifle. I then followed Mike down to the valley where I saw a little white something laying on the ground. As we got closer, the sight got clearer. My doe was down and still. She only had enough time to get 20 feet before her life drained out of her body. 

I approached her very slowly, laid myself down next to her back, and slowly picked her up by the back of her head. I carefully stuffed her tongue back into her mouth just as the truck approached. Her white hide had been bloodied, but that was ok. I could clean it. The entrance wound was just perfect, which is what the exit wound hinted at on the other side. I placed the shot right behind the shoulder, despite being 225 yards away. I'd give Chris Kyle a run for his money. I ruined absolutely no meat, and the doe was gone before she knew she was. That's why she was stumbling in an odd way. She was never alive. Her nerves were simply responding to the suddenness of it all. 

My grandparents jumped out of the truck with their phones ready to take pictures. Tom, Mike, and my grandparents all stood at four different angles and spent a solid 5 minutes taking almost constant pictures. Mike and Tom positioned my doe a few times for several different types of pictures, before I finally had a chance to fill out my tag. I helped lift the doe into the back of the truck. Tom and Mike determined how far the doe moved by following a light blood trail she left behind. That's how we determined she stumbled 20 feet before falling over.