Me too, but when I did it, I was running across the yard, pumping and shooting the rifle on the run, chasing a raccoon that had chased off the cat and started eating from her bowl inside the cat house I had built for her.
When we got to the end of the yard, he hit the tree at full bore, and clambered up without missing a beat.
I ran back across the yard, reached in the door and grabbed the spotlight. When I shined it up into the tree to get another shot at him, I saw 8 pairs of green beady eyes peering down at me... Boy was I glad the tube was full.
I ended up getting 5 of them before the rest ran down the tree and off into the grass on the hill behind.
Another time, I heard some rustling in the waist high weeds up on the hill, and shined the spot up and around, coming to rest on a pair of greenish/white eyes peering back at me above the weeds.
I never had people up there, and there was no light being used as it finally ran off into the darkness, so I can only figure it was a deer.
I always had the neighbors giving me gifts, and complimenting my marksmanship, and saying that they didn't have to go out and buy more fish for the pond every week, another told me her cat could now sleep on the porch again, another said she was only buying cat and dog food about half as often............