HoytHunter5293 Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 post some pictures or stories about your first deer with a bow. Heres mine 3 years ago at age 13 . She ran about 30 yards and died under my dads tree .... He couldnt of been more proud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom2008 Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 After three seasons of bow hunting I finally connected on my fourth with a nice doe. I made a ground blind out of pine tree branches and used light buck grunts and short calls with my Primos Original Can. A doe and her fawn fed right in to 15 yards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rem308 Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 I had hunted several seasons with my bow, finally connected on a doe back in 2007. Three deer fed around the hillside to me on the opening morning of season and the larger of the 3 came about 15 yards by my stand. I remember when I shot she whirled around and ran about 80 yards. I gave her plenty of time, then climbed down and found good blood on my arrow. The trail was HUGE and I followed right to where she fell. A big doe and I couldn't have been happier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilhnter Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 I unfortunately don't have a picture. But I killed my first deer with a bow on the very first morning that I ever went bowhunting. I was 13 and sitting on the ground with my dad and had a little button buck walk to within 10 yds and I put him down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camoman1 Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 No pic handy but heres the story.. I was 18 and hunting on some public land....about 40yds off a gravel road near a pond. Had a nice little 9point come by and stand broadside at about 12yds from my ground blind. Behind the deer was a mound of dirt (10ft high or so) that was dug out to form the pond. I let an arrow go and watch the deer go up the hill and disappear. I followed the blood trail to the edge of the water....no deer. Then I saw him floating in the pond in about 8ft of water.....I got him out with some help and a pair of waders and a pole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 (edited) About 25 yards as I recall in 2003. My sights had come loose and my arrow went high and right. The arrow hit the buck right below the jaw bone and sliced through the trachea and jugular. He ran about 100 yards. The blood trail led me to my first deer with a bow. I learned a lesson that day and now do everything I can to make sure I make the best shot possible. He weighed about 200 pounds field dressed and only 2 points on one side. Didn't look broken, just grew strange. Edited August 10, 2009 by fly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Shooter Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 I'll have to scan the picture at work to get it posted on here, but mine was a 6 point shot in Alabama on a hunt. I was the only one out of 10 guys that went, who hadn't killed a deer with a bow. Ended up I shot him on our opening morning hunt and killed a big Doe the next morning. I shot at him the first time at 27 yards, hit a branch and went over his back. He just turned and walked straight towards me and I got an 8 yard shot on him, right down between the shoulder blades. Dropped him in his tracks and then I about fell out of the stand from shaking so bad. Had to sit up there in the stand for an extra 30 minutes before I could attempt to get down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 I was twelve, hunting with a Darton. Had a doe walk right under my short ladder stand. I could have spit on her. As I drew back, she of course heard me and ran about 25 yards and stopped. I shot, arrow deflected in some limbs and luckily took out her spine. As I walked up to her, I realized to my horror that the deer had fading spots. I almost cried, walking the long way out with a deer over my shoulder like a rabbit. When I got back to the truck, my cousin just smiled at me and told me that things happen, and to kill a deer with a stick is a milestone, not to beat myself up over it. It took a while for that to sink in, but finally it did, and I dont regret that shot today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 couple does I got, but no pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 (edited) My first deer was a doe that I dont have any pics of but my second was a 130in 10pt buck...will be hard to top for me I was 20, I drove down to a farm that I hadn't scouted and only hunted 2 or 3 time before, I packed in my camera and my climber and spend most of the hour before sunrise trying to find a tall straight tree to hunt from. I was in the stand for 30minuets and grunted and had a small 4pt come under me. I passed and saw very little till 1hr before dark. I had 4 does come out of the neighbors corn field and walk close to me, I looked up and there he stood, just like in the movies. Nothing much happened, The buck walked right to me and stopped at 25yards and gave me a perfect side shot. I hit him and he went 50yds and dropped. Edited August 10, 2009 by MichiganHunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 My first deer was a doe that I dont have any pics of but my second was a 130in 10pt buck...will be hard to top for me I was 20, I drove down to a farm that I hadn't scouted and only hunted 2 or 3 time before, I packed in my camera and my climber and spend most of the hour before sunrise trying to find a tall straight tree to hunt from. I was in the stand for 30minuets and grunted and had a small 4pt come under me. I passed and saw very little till 1hr before dark. I had 4 does come out of the neighbors corn field and walk close to me, I looked up and there he stood, just like in the movies. Nothing much happened, The buck walked right to me and stopped at 25yards and gave me a perfect side shot. I hit him and he went 50yds and dropped. Nice buck and story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Afternoon hunt. Picked the biggest doe out of a group of does. Shot was about 35 yards and I was sitting in our box blind. Hit just a little back. She went through some really nasty thick stuff and had some trouble following the trail. Unfortunately yotes found her before I ever even started tracking her, I heard them but did not realize they were on my deer, the yotes quit after I got to tracking. I found her the next day about roughly 400 yards roundabout ways from where I had shot her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 First deer was a doe. That was a long time ago and I don't have pics. Shot her at ~15 yards when she came in to feed on acorns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Last day of bow season 1984...............Diamondback Mt. near State College, PA. It was also the first day of fall turkey. I was staying with a buddy in his Penn State dorm room. It was like 85 or 90 degrees that day. We decided to stillhunt straight up over the mountain with a few hundred yards between us. Maybe I'd bump a turkey to him or he'd bump a deer my way. 2/3 of the way up the mountain I heard something coming through the dry leaves to my left but couldn't see because of all the laurel. I thought it was turkeys. Ended up being a little 5-pointer. I shot him at 11 yards with a Browning X-Cellerator, an Autumn Orange XX-75 Easton and a Sattelite broadhead. Dressed him and took him back to the dorms in the trunk of my old Impala. Called around and found a shop that would cut him up...........if he was skinned. So we started driving back roads looking for a handy tree to hang him and do the skinning. Ended up skinning him right across a dirt road form the Penn State deer propogation area fence. :hammer1: Got it delivered and cut & wrapped. The whole of the meat fit in the dorm refrigerator's freezer. Them PA mountain bucks are huge. :clown: There are a couple Polaroids of it somewhere................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Never took a picture of my first deer. The story was that I had a big fight with my girl friend the night before, she basically dumped me when I moved away to finish my undergrad. Anyway, was pretty depressed that night, but said to myself "dang, she's not going to ruin my deer season..." Got to my spot about an hour late, but sat down and about an hour later a doe and her 2 fawns came along on a trail about 20 yards away. About 3 hours later I was dragging my first deer. That was November 5, 1989. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sskybnd Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 my first deer with a bow was a doe, on the chickahomny wma in va. never thought i would ever kill one the way my luck kept running, i would pratice all week but when time came to shot one i never seemed to shot straight, to hi to low to the left or right, i missed something like 12 the first few weeks of bow season, wont get into how close they were, than one day a doe came out of nowhere and came within 20 yards, when i shot it seemed prefect but i told my self that i had missed another, but than realized i realy made a good shot, at that time i started to hypreventalate, than i started to puke guess i had got to much air in me, all the way to her,was stop and go,but was one happy hunter when i put my hands on her . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Just as the sky barely started to turn gray I did a few turns of the Primos can call and continued to do that about every 15-20 mins. This can call had spent some time on my dashboard and that had changed the pitch of it to sound more like a fawn bleat. It had been daylight for about an hour when she walked out @ 26 yards away...then she turned and started walking in my direction on a small logging road. First deer was a Doe @ 5 yds...she looked up at me in my 10ft ladderstand and I sent the arrow through the snuff can right down along her neck into the heart. She dropped right there with alot of blood flowing out along the arrow shaft. She did about 3/4 of a turn before I had another arrow through her up to the fletching right behind the shoulder. I almost did not get there that morning as on my way out of town at 4:30am I smacked a 150+lb Wild Hog with the right bumper of my truck. I stopped to see how bad it was all the time telling myself my day is over I have a Hog to skin out now. I backed up and found where I had knocked a bunch of mud off the Hog but no blood anywhere. I thought for a second about going after the Hog with my flashlight then realized how much sense that made. Chasing a possibly injured Hog through the swamps....not me. When I got back in the truck to continue heading towards where my ladderstand was the thermometer in the truck said it was 84 degrees...@ 4:45 am!!! When I got my first Bow Deer out to the truck and loaded up just after 9AM the temperature had risen to 93 degrees! Florida can get hot quick....My 4-1/2yr old Doe weighed 97lbs before field dressing at home after a few really quick pictures in the back of my truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterwebb Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 i cant tell you how many deer i killed with a gun alot ever thing from a spike to 8 point nothing no bigger my biggest score 146 5 year ago i bought my 1st Mathew took a Nanny i though i was going to die could not talk or stand had to set heart was pounding never felt like that before love it now hook for life dont care if i dont ever pick up a gun again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 First one with a bow was a 7 point buck. Killed him on some public land around lake Fort Gibson here in Oklahoma. A buddy and I were going out on opening day, and Eric hadn't put up a stand yet. As I settled in, I could hear him clanking around fighting to get his stand set up. About the time he got quiet, the buck stepped out into a little clearing headed towards a persimmon tree. He was at about 10 yards. First shot, clean miss. The buck whirled around and ran right under my tree, stopped, turned around, and looked the clearing over real good. Then he followed the brush around the edge of the clearing and stepped out again at about 30 yards. Second shot, nailed him! Double lunger. I was shaking like a leaf in a tornado. Sat for a while and gathered my senses then climbed down. I walked over to where Eric was hunting, and he was still wiping the sweat off of his forehead. The buck only ran about 50 yards, and died in the ditch right next to the road. I've never had an easier drag job since. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Bought my 1st bow off the job from a co worker for $100. Bear Whitetail Legend, shooting the aluminum telephone pole sized shafts:clown: It was and inch too long on the draw, but what the heck did I know. I just wanted to bowhunt. I practiced with it until I could hit the bulleseye and keep the arrows tight. Very 1st morning bowhunting in 1999, at sunrise I shot a big doe at 25 yards out of my Summit climber here in our backyard. I hunted 2 seasons with that bow, killed 5 deer with it too, until I got serious and bought a Mathews Outback that actually fit me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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