Ravin R10 man Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 For me it was Button Buck...hunting in a spruce at field edge trail, he ran a zig zag 100 yrds down the field and piled up into a ravine just as he dove in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) first deer I shot with a bow was a doe close to 140lbs. I was hunting along a hardwood ridge top, not in a stand, on an ATV trail. i came up on the doe, circled around this blown down tree top and ended up within 19 yards, confirmed with a rangefinder after. made a nice centered double lung shot with an Easton aluminum Fall stalker arrow tipped with a Muzzy MX-4 head. backed out to get my dad and brother. we tracked it a short 40 yards. then after a thorough, search i found my arrow. still got it. ....i should add that i found my arrow had pass through the doe and then sailed it's way 120 or so yards down to the bottom of the ridge, laying right on top of the leaves. can't believe i found it and that it made it that far without hitting a tree or something. Edited July 17, 2013 by dbHunterNY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 ....oh yea first buck with a bow was possibly a 3.5 year old 6 pointer. hunted throughout the season and had dozens of close encounters with younger bucks, mostly yearlings. he was 22 yards walking alone down a trail. i watched run off out of sight. called my parent's house phone asking if they were at breakfast (out at a diner) yet and then i went to call my now wife. i was shaking so bad i dropped my cell phone out of the treestand while trying to dial. lol the treestand was in the same spot i shot my first buck with a gun. That arrow was broke and most of it lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowmadness2186 Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 My first deer with a bow was a Doe. i was walking back to the truck after the morning hunt down the edge of a hay field. the doe stepped out of the woods into the field and i lost sight of her in the tall hay. i stepped into the woods and got ready just in case she came back into the woods. i was waiting what seemed to be 30 minutes but was really only 5-10 min when i hurt a stick break behind me in the woods. when i turned there was another doe standing behind a tree about 20 yards away. when she stepped out i had the perfect broadside shot. i hit her a little far back so i let her go for 2 hours and went and got my dad before we went to look for her. we found her 150 yards from where i had shot with my arrow broke off inside her. never found the other half of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowmadness2186 Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Still have yet to get a buck with the Bow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 My first bow kill was a 1 1/2 old 8 pointer, probably back around 1998. It was a very memorable hunt. I missed chip shot at a doe from my treestand. I definitely accredit the miss to buck fever...I know she had to see my knee shaking. I got down around 10:00 because I was cold and under dressed. I climbed down, grabbed my bow, through the old Strongbuilt climber over my shoulder and headed to the truck. About 100 yards from the truck I heard leaves crunching and see 4 deer heading my way. I knelt down, dropped the stand, and knocked an arrow. As they ran closer I could here the bucks grunting. It was the first time I heard a deer grunt. A doe trotted by at 40 yards, followed by two big bucks. They were out of range, so I figured I would call to them. A bleat from my can call and a short grunt and the third buck turned straight towards me. He made it to 15 yards and was broadside when he seen me, but it was too late. I spined him and needed a follow up shot. It was a great feeling to get my first bow deer after 5 or 6 years of bowhunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 For me 1st deer bowhunting was a doe too. My fuzzy memory from that long ago is...it was ~15 yards hunting some oaks near a ridge top. Doe ran S down into a ravine & crashed. Not a fun drag! BTW...2nd, 3rd, 4th, & on till I lost count were does too. 1st buck was a 3.5 year old 10 point on Oct. 4, 1993. That particular bow season MS did an experiment allowing only buck hunting during the 1st 2 weeks of the season. That's the only year they ever did that. If not for that, I probably wouldn't have killed that buck. Why...1st doe in range would have been toast! On to the hunt...I was hunting a ~1 ac. food plot from a natural ground blind my buddy & I made just inside a kudzu thicket off the E side of the plot. I'd seen 4 bucks there, twice during the summer, including that 10 point. We drew straws in the blind to see who would get to shoot the big one if more than one came in. I won the draw. As luck would have it 3 bucks came in from the NW, the 10 point and 2 8 points. When the shots were offered, we both drew, I whispered 1, 2, 3 and we both let fly. I killed mine at ~40 yards, he shot right over his at ~38 yards. My buck crashed in the timber ~40 yards from the field. Nice level drag too. One of those hunts I'll never forget. Doe kill hunts for the most part have become blurs in my memory. BTW...that buddy is the same one I'm hunting with in MO now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 I'll let you know as soon as I kill it. I have shot at one.....a nice 9 pointer.......flung the arrow right over his back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Doe, unfortunately I did not find it the afternoon I shot it, but found it the next day and the yotes beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhunter97 Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Doe. On Aug. 11 2011. I was sitting in a stand at the end of my road where i knew there were deer. The doe came out about 50 yards and got on the trail that went litterally 3 feet from the bottom of my stand. She walked under me and got a little bit further i stood up and drew she stopped and turned a little still a hard quartering away angle and i shot. She was close though. I ranged it after ant it was 13.5 yards. The arrow entered just infront of her back right leg and if it went all the way through it would have came out infront of her front left shoulder. She ran about 20 yards and piled up next to a fourwheeler trail making it an easy pick up. I have yet to kill a buck yet hopefully i can in 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailfreak55 Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Mine was a doe that came into 4 yards. She ran about 60 yards and piled up at a bottom of a ridge. Very fun drag lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 November 5, 1989. Holmes county Ohio, sitting on a rock above a trail. Momma doe and 2 fawns came by, stopped just out of range, then came in, perfect broadside shot, double lunged her, but I was so inexperienced at deer hunting it took me 3 hours to find her and she only went about 500 yards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 hopefully this fall I get my first deer or buck with not just a bow but a recurve bow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 A fat old lead doe. 20 yards, in a Summit climber. My bow had too long of a draw for me. Bought from a guy at work for $100. Practiced for 2 months in my yard with a pendulum site. Watched her go down within 20 yards. That was the moment in time when I became hooked on bowhunting! Here in suburban NY. 40 miles from NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WStreblo Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 What was your first deer you shot with a bow? Basket rack six point with a borrowed percussion cap muzzle loader last day of season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WStreblo Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 What was your first deer you shot with a bow? With a bow it was a busted up 8 point that tore up every tree and bush on its way in to a grunt I laid on him. 15yrd shot and he didn't go more than 20 before hitting the dirt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scbasshunter Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 What was your first deer you shot with a bow? First deer with a bow was a 3pt last season. He came right behind a doe that I missed. He was close enough that he had to have seen what happened. He came in anyways. I missed the first shot at him. He ran about 10 ft and stopped. I gut shot him on the next shot. We trailed him a couple hours that night but never found him. I went back the next am and searched for hours but lost blood and never found him. I was on the way out of the woods and my father in laws dog stopped to lick a puddle of blood about 100-150 yds away from where I lost blood. I found him about 20 yds from that blood spot lying in a ditch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimPic Posted July 19, 2013 Report Share Posted July 19, 2013 (edited) Big-bodied 6pt..2nd to the last day of the season. Got to my property at 12:00 noon on a Friday, was in my stand and shot him at 12:15 following a rub line. I used a 65# Jennings Sonic XL compound with 2216's tipped with a 140gr 4-blade Wasp Cam-Lok broadhead that busted thru both shoulders...dropped within 30yds Edited July 19, 2013 by JimPic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowtech_archer07 Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 My first deer was a yearling doe. I was actually walking to my stand and she and her mama were drinking from a pond. I actually shot her without a release on! Haha. And I was lucky enough to tag out that year, killing a basket rack 8 point about 3 weeks later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNY_Whitetailer Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 It was 1997, I was 25 years old and heading out in the woods for the first time with a bow and arrow. I was in a wooden tree stand that the property owner had built overlooking a ravine. a yearling doe walked up the ravine toward the stand and angled to my right. she was approximately 25 yards away standing broadside. As I released the arrow, she took a step forward and my four bladed Muzzy struck her in the femoral artery. She ambled approximately 15 yards and then piled up and that was it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 What was your first deer you shot with a bow? My first bow deer came at 5:08pm after football practice. I climbed in the stand at 5:00pm and looked over to see a 1.5 6 point at 90 yards coming in through our grown up area. He walked right under me. I drew three times. The last time he spooked to 32 yards and stood broadside. I had an eagle bow with easton aluminum arrows and a thunderhead 5 blade. Double lung and he ran about 125 yards and piled up. He knew I was there but he just didn't know enough to steer clear. He couldn't wind me and his curiosity got him a ride home. I'm not for sure but I think it was around 1996-7 that I got him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Last day of archery 1984. I was staying with a buddy in a dorm on the Penn State campus. We still-hunted up over a mountain about 300-400 yards apart........... him with a shotgun for turkeys and me with my Browning X-Cellerator compound for deer. It was right around 80 degrees that day. About 3/4 of the way to the top of the mountain I heard a deer coming around a laurel thicket to my left. It was a little PA mountain 5-pointer. Drew and poked him right through the ribs. IIRC it was like 14 yards. He ran about 75 yards & piled up. Gutted him and dragged him back to the car and hauled him back to State College in the trunk of a '67 Impala. Found a back road and hanged him in a tree (coincidentally RIGHT across the road from the back of Penn State's deer research fence) and skinned him because the processor wouldn't take it unless it was skinned. Picked up the meat the next day and it all fit in a dorm refrigerator !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Must have been around 1987 I guess. I was about fifteen and hunting a ladder stand about seven feet tall lol. Little doe walked about two feet from the stand, I swear I could have slapped her. I tried to draw but she was less than five get from me so of course she ran at first movement. She stopped at thirty steps and I spine shot her. I was so happy until I got to her and saw her fading spots. I had to cut her throat while she bleated! I was so disgusted, I carried her out one handed over my shoulder, she may have weighed forty pounds. But when I got to the camp my uncle told me to shake it off and that I should be proud of killing one with stick and string. He was right. I only went up from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzk8790 Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 Little button buck wish I hadn't of shot him after I realized what he was but him nd his mom came in quick nd I shot him cause his mom left so quick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 My first bow deer was a nice 8 point. One thing I won't forget was that I forgot my gloves that day and sun was shining directly on me. I was worried any deer would make me. I was texting and not paying attention when a spike came through and woke me up. I almost missed the opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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