Your first deer

[mossyhorn]

Yall remember your first deer. I like to hear the stoy. I know mine is one I will never forget.

It was Nov. 5 the sun had just came up and I heard him walking up the hill. It was just a 5 piont buck but I wanted it so bad. I picked my bow up, watched him walk 10 yards away and I froze. I was to scared to run him off if I moved. Let me remind you that I am 30 feet in a tree and was afraid still yet for him to see me. So he walked off. 10 minutes later he came back and walked right under me so I took my best shot at it and hit him right in the gut. Once i did find him on the other side of the property he was still alive and standing there. I shot again and hit him in the leg, and then shot another and missed. I felt so bad because he was suffering through all my horrible misplaced shot so while he is lying there on the ground with an arrow in his leg I walked 4 yards from him and finally made a good shot on him. After we cleaned him I bet I shot my bow for 2 hours making sure I never missed that bad ever again.

[Guest fourtrax_300]

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well mine was only 6 years ago so i remember.

it was my first shotgun season ever. I was the second day of first season here in IL and me and my grandpa were sitting on the ground in front of a creek. we haddent beent here long when a doe passed beghind us but never came into shooting range so we waited then just across the creek about 30 yards away came a 6 point basket rack buck. he was at a fast trot and he got close to me and my grandpa said shoot ! shoot ! shoot ! and that deer stoped and looked at us and i squezzed the trigger and shot him in the neck and dropped it ! I was so happy. and afterwards my granpa asked me why id idnt shoot when he told me too and i told him i was waiting for the deer to stop. thats before i foudn out some times you dont get a still shot ! lol

[whttlbucksteve]

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Yea that is a good story

[mossyhorn]

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Well it jumped in to some thick brush. I guess it was to tired to run anymore. I just walked up behind it.

what I remember most is that I had to get my mom to take me to my friends house that moring because I wasn't old enough to drive and when I got there nobody wanted to go so they told me the had a stand on the hill I could hunt. If I had go them up my friend would have been in the stand.

[Swamphunter]

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It was a 4 point in Eldred PA. I was hunting with my Uncle, cousins, brother and father. It came down off the hill and ran right in front of me gave me a perfect 30 yard broadside shot. I let em' have it with the .243 and he ran down the hill right in front of my brother who rolled him with a second shot from a .25-06. That was cool because it was the first buck both myself and my brother had ever shot. Man, that had to be like 20 years ago now.

[David_218]

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I bagged my very first Deer (a 130 pound Doe) on 17 December 1977 at Crane N.W.S.C., on a special hunt. Got her at 2:57 pm and it was drizzling rain with a temp of 55 degrees. The 17th of December was my late Granddad's and Great Aunt's Birthday plus my Cousin's Daughter, Jenny, was born around the same time I shot.

[Guest lilcrackshot]

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I got my first one on December 9, 2005. Me and my dad were sitting in a box blind and had been for about 3 hours previously. I saw motion out of the shooting window and what looked like two does ran out of the woods along the corn field we were hunting. I got my rifle ready and the first doe stopped. I saw that the one farthest away was bigger so I switched the sights to her but I it was facing me and I wasn't going to take that shot. So I switched my sights back over to the other deer. It was broadside but there were lots of twigs in the way and I didin't want my bullet to be deflected. So I went back to the other deer and by this time it was broadside and since we were along a property line and I didn't want the deer running back on the neighbors property I aimed for the spine and squeezed the trigger. The old 30.06 roared and my deer dropped. When we were dressing it out. We found that what we thought was a doe was really a button buck. Another good thing about that day was that it was my Grandpa's birthday.

[M00N]

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My first deer was considered a male fawn. I shot it in Huntingdon County, PA in 1998 as a youth hunter at the age of 13. This was my first deer hunt ever and my first deer harvest. I was hunting the rifle season with a Remington Model Seven SS .243 Win (the gun I still use to this day due to it is my most comfortable gun and I'm extremely accurate with it). I had missed a doe a few hours earlier the day that I got my first deer due to deer fever leading to me jerking the gun downward when pulling the trigger. Then had two other deer speed past me when another hunter spooked them and couldn't get a shot at either. Shortly after the two deer came fleeing past me this deer on the opposite ridge came walking slowly by. My father this time got excited instead of me and was saying over and over "shoot it" to me. I held off shooting it at first to tell him I thought the deer looked small. He just wanted me to get my first deer told me to still shoot it that it is big enough. So, I placed my crosshairs behind it's shoulder at about 200yards and left one fly. The deer stumbled off 50 yards before falling over some brush and kicking around until it died.

We waited 20 minutes and walked up to my deer. Soon as we got close to it I hear my father go. "Oh wow that is a baby deer. Is that a button buck?" He then felt it's head and couldn't feel buttons, but lifted it's back leg up and it was a male. I immediately said to him. "I told you it was little!" I wasn't kidding when I used the term little or dad used the term baby. This deer was classified a late born male fawn. It had no visible button horns, nor can any be felt on it's head under the skin. It's body size was smaller than my German Shepherd and I could pick it up with one hand despite being a 13 year old girl. It even fit in my backpack enough that I could have just carried it out in my backpack with an orange hat put on its head. I had made a good shot on it. Hit it exactly where I aimed. Blew the entrance chest cavity open, then the heart and lungs up, and then the exit chest cavity open. The diaphragm was also blown away from the impact and the deer's guts had started to fall out by themselves. This made gutting easier. Dragging out was even easy to do.

According to most of the hunters that saw my deer they all agreed that I did it a favor by taking him out. That he was so late born, so little, and motherless that once the weather got harsher he'd never make it. They also agreed that hitting that small of a target at 200+yards with a .243 was something to be proud of considering before that shot I had only shot my gun 5 times, one of which was the miss shot at the doe earlier that day. The hide on my deer was too damaged from my shot and in generally poor condition to start with that I didn't have it tanned. The meat from my deer when sat next to the other kid that hunted with us's doe was extremely pink in color and very tender. Despite having other deer meat in our freezer at home from my father, we still ate up all of my deer's meat first before even touching the other deer meat in the freezer.

[Stinger-Hunter]

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Western Virginia in 2000 (George Washington National Forest). I camped out on my hunting spot all night. Woke up, took my tent down and froze for an hour. I started to make Ramen Noodles and hear comes a doe with a beautiful 8 pointer behind her.

The both walked within 30 yards of me and the buck wouldn't come out behind a tree - only his head and neck. I took the neck shot with my 7mm Rem Mag, 180 grain bullet.

Couldn't drag it out myself, so i solicited some help from a great bunch of guys. I got the mount done two years later and gave it to the guy who helped me out.

Here's a pic of the deer mount and the rest of my big deer since my first.

Louie's Bucks

[Randyman]

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My first deer ever was taken on Nov. 18th, 1988 at 4:50 in the afternoon. I was hunting in the Shawnee National Forest in Hardin County, Il. and it was my 3rd season as a deer hunter. It was opening day of the first segment of firearms season and had been raining off and on all day. I had spent most of the day on stand without seeing much and had decided to get down a little early and still hunt my way back to my truck. Back in those days the National Forest Service kept Wildlife openings of 1 or 2 acres mowed down to allow forage to sprout for the Deer and Turkeys. I had to pass through several of these openings to get back to my truck and thought i might catch deer feeding in one of them. Sure enough, in the first opening i approached, i spotted what i thought was a lone deer feeding about 65 yards away. I quickly took a rest on a tree and shot. At the shot, a deer ran off and i assumed i had missed. To be sure, i started towards the spot where the deer had been standing when i shot, and to my surprise, a deer slowly materialized on the ground where it had been standing when i shot. Apparently there had been another deer standing directly behind it that was blocked from my view and that is the one i saw run off. I had hit her right on the point of the shoulder and it ended up being a mature doe that field dressed at 135 lbs. and was aged at 4 1/2 years old at the check station. To this day it is still the biggest doe i have ever harvested and one of my best and most vivid deer hunting memories!

[arrow32]

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I got my first deer with my bow. I had asked my uncle if i could use his climber and he didnt care so i took it. I had sat there for about 45 mins and here came this button buck im no dont shoot it but after watching it for 10 mins it had changed my mind. So i shot him at about 10 yards. Waited for about 30 mins then went to get my dad on the other side of the holler. Well my shot on the deer was a high and the first time we found it my dad thought it was dead and walked about 5 yards from it and it got up real slow and walked off. He laid his bow down already darn. Then we decided to let it go all night. And found it that morning after we were done hunting. Yotes had got it thought they might. Not a good way to get your first deer is it.

[HitRmisS]

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I remember it like it was yesterday, it was 8 years ago when i was 10 on the friday after thanksgiving. I had been hunting all week and not seen anything at all and so that evening my uncle told me i could hunt his stand where i was sure to see some does and i could get a shot at one, he only gave me one rule and that was that shortly after his feeder went off everyday a doe and her yearling would come out and he didn't want me to shoot her. So i got on the stand and about 30 minutes later the feeder went off and on cue about out popped a doe about 10 minutes after, she was all alone at first so i was getting ready to shoot her then out came the yearling so i out my gun down, sat there for about 5 minutes (seemed like forever) then i said to myself welll nothing else is coming so i raised up and made a perect shot but she just stood there and stumbled around then turned and faced me and strecthed her had way up in the air so i shot her again right through the chest because i was so afraid she was gonna run off. So my uncle came and i confessed that i shot that doe but he didn't care since it was my first deer and i was hunting alone as well

[MUDRUNNER]

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It was a chilly November morning about 14 years ago.I was hunting in a permanant tree stand that the guys built a few years earlier.It was the second day of Illinois first shotgun season and after about 2 hours a doe walked right across the trail I used to get to the stand at about 60 yards.I was using my dads Remington 1100 with a modified barrel and took the shot.I thought I missed,but got down to look and found some blood so I took up the trail.After about 100 yards it jumped up about 10 yards from me and I finished it off.The first shot busted the shoulder,but didn't hit no vitals so she bedded down.It was a 1 1/2 old doe.I guess I would have been about 15 years old or so and it was my second year of deer hunting.

[NYBUCK]

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I too remember it like it was yesterday. I was 19 and was on my first ever deer hunt with my brother-n-law, a couple of relatives and another friend. We decide to do a couple drives and I got placed on this spot as I had no idea what to expect. I din't like the spot and moved about 50 yds so I could see better. A little while later I was looking one way and just had this feeling something was watching me. I turned around and there was a small buck looking right at me. I slowly brought the old single shot 20 gauge that I had traded 6 bags of corn for and held the ball right on his kneck. He dropped in his tracks. I let out a scream that was probablly heard in Texas. I was hooked and have hunted ever since.

[Tominator]

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Funny, my first deer was November 5th also. 1989. My girlfriend basically dumped me the night before so I was kind of depressed and decided not to go hunting the next day as I headed home that night, but when I woke up in the morning, I said "heck, I'm not going to let her ruin my hunt....I'm going." I got into the woods about an hour late, but around 9 that morning, a fat doe with two fawns came down the trail, I drew back, and luckily she stopped right in my shooting lane. I shot and got both lungs, but not a pass through. I found her about 2 hours later.

[Missed160]

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Mine was Nov 9, 1979. My first time ever on a deer stand. I was on stand with my dad. Saw a cuple of does, then the buck crossed the meadow about 200 yards out. Even though it was just a 5 point, I remberm the antlers looked HUGE.. My dad would let me shoot, because I just had an open sighted

30-30. It took him about 45 minutes to work his way around the meadow, then he stepped out 20 yards from us. I shopt him, he went straight down. Then I got nervous, couldn't stop shaking!

The thing I really remember is going outside the cabin about every 20 minutes, just to look at him..

I can't wait to experience that with my boys.

[Cutter]

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It was Sept. 30th (my birthday) 88 I was set up in a ground blind along a wooded fence line near a beaver pond the weather was actually pretty crappy for hunting but something was telling me that I had to be out. About an hour after getting settled the wind stopped and the sun broke threw and the deer started moving . A big doe and a smallish 4x4 were feeding towards me. I decided that Id shoot the first one to give me a good shot . Before long the doe had fed to within 10yrds but quartering towards me then she turned, WHACK! I hit her in the spine ,down she went I was so excited that I missed my next shot but the 3rd was on the mark to finish the job.

[double_drop]

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It was thanksgiving morning in 1992. I was sitting in a deer stand called hair pile. I had an old darton bow shooting easton xx75's 2117's. A button buck came through at 6:51am and i shot it. I watched it run 60 yards through the woods and drop. It was a double lung shot. Got me hooked from there.

[rockefeller66]

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I was 14 and hunting on my brother's birthday, with him, my dad, and me. It was Oct 8 and I was setup along the edge of the timber and a newly harvested corn field. About 2 hours before dark 3 does came running by my stand and I stood up, they stopped, I picked out the biggest one, and at 8 yards I spined her! I was pumped!!! It all happened so quick and I was so young and dumb when it camed to hunting I look back and laugh on how I even shot a deer! We never worried about the wind, why we were hunting that early in the season I don't know, and I thought a 20 yard shot was long, we always just screwed on our broadheads and hunted, never shot them to see how they shot, we could hardly judge ranges, but somehow some way I got my first deer, a nice big doe! I have learned so much since then it is unreal, but hey, ya gotta start somewhere!!!!!