How long before your first archery deer?
Moderator: Excalibur Marketing Dude
- chicotrout
- Posts: 80
- Joined: Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:33 pm
- Location: Mission, TX
How long before your first archery deer?
I was just thinking that it took me four looong seasons of hunting with archery tackle before I learned enough from my mistakes to bag my first deer--a big doe. I started bow hunting in the late 80's and we didn't have all of the media available to us hunters that we do nowadays back then; I also didn't know anyone else that bow hunted at the time so I had to learn on my own. So, I thought it would be neat to hear how long it took others to bag their first archery deer and whether it was a buck or a doe.
Happy Hunting!!!
Matrix 380 Blackout
Matrix 380 Blackout
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
2yrs 30-40 posts and counting, my posts are on average from 40min to 2-3hrs max
- onebigskittle
- Posts: 2041
- Joined: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:08 am
- Location: Keysville Virginia
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
I got my first crossbow and put it together shot it a few times to dial it in even out to 50 yards went hunting about a week later and killed a doe while sitting next to a trail (20 yard shot)
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
5 posts on stand.. purchased an 18 year old darton compound bow.. shot and practiced with it over the summer... 5th time on stand, shot a nice big 9 point buck...
Excalibur Matrix 330 Bulldog Suppressed, 18" Diablo bolts, 100 grain Rage Crossbow X blade
-
- Posts: 202
- Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:16 pm
- Location: Washington, Pennsylvania
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Twelve years and one week of hunting
We weren't allowed to hunt in pa before you were twelve years old...but one week into my first archery hunt I got my first doe with a 35 lb bear compound bow.
We weren't allowed to hunt in pa before you were twelve years old...but one week into my first archery hunt I got my first doe with a 35 lb bear compound bow.
Super Vixen - AKA Matrix 355 with Vixen II Stock
Buggy Bumpers
Gold Tip Laser 4 Arrows with Swhacker 125 Heads
Miller Quiver Mount
Leupold Shotgun Scope (Miller)
Flemish String
Micro 355 Tact-zone Package, soon to be modded.
Buggy Bumpers
Gold Tip Laser 4 Arrows with Swhacker 125 Heads
Miller Quiver Mount
Leupold Shotgun Scope (Miller)
Flemish String
Micro 355 Tact-zone Package, soon to be modded.
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
started hunting with archery in 1981 and after 2 hours on stand took a nice little 9 pointer ....
Last edited by bob1961 on Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
exocet 200. STS dampers.
boo string and trigger work.
munch mount quiver mount.
125 gr slick trick magums.
2" blazers on 2117 XX75 w/ brass inserts.
boo string and trigger work.
munch mount quiver mount.
125 gr slick trick magums.
2" blazers on 2117 XX75 w/ brass inserts.
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Been hunting 25+ yrs but this season will be only my second time bow hunting, so am hoping I get one this year, last year I did not even see a deer during bow
Exocet 200
S5 System
Shadowzone
S5 System
Shadowzone
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Back in 68 I shot my first bow kill with a 42 pound Ben Pearson Recurve. I shot a fork horn buck on a deer drive my friends parents were making to us. He came in behind me on the drive I do not even think he was aware that folks were coming the other way as they had just started the drive. It as more of a sneak hunt then a drive for the parents that were doing it and the mother did not bow hunt she was just walking to keep the deer in the right direction. That would have been my second year of bow hunting. We used to practice shooting ground squirrels with bows at the fair grounds. That was good practice.
A gun is like a parachute: If you need one and don't have one, you won't be needing one again.
-
- Posts: 252
- Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:50 am
- Location: Northern Alabama
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
My first year of bow hunting 1997 I had hunted for 9 or 10 afternoons in a row on a White Oak flat before harvesting a doe as the sun began to fall on a Hallowen hunt. First deer I ever drew on, I shot straight down with a old Golden Eagle compound striking her directly in the spine and exiting through the bottom of the chest with a 100 grain 3 blade Satelite Broadhead. Zero distance travelled. I will never forget that hunt very magical for me
2014 Vixen II
2006 Exomax
2006 Exomax
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
I started bow hunting in 1998. Killed my first deer in 2000. 8 point buck, not huge, 16 inches inside, short tines. Saw him come into the field 200 yards away, as he walked across the field he hit my scent drag, put his nose to the ground and fallowed it right too me. I shot him at 7 yards broadside. This was also the first year I was in a tree stand. I'll never forget that day.
Sean
Sean
I Hunt, I Fish, I Am
-
- Posts: 4805
- Joined: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:06 pm
- Location: Ft. Worth, Texas
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Will let you know when it happens.
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Several years before shooting and recovering one with a compound bow.
Bought my first Xcal two years ago. Killed a doe on the first trip out. Second trip out killed another doe and my first 10 point after 32 years of deer hunting. It's been a match made in heaven.
Bought my first Xcal two years ago. Killed a doe on the first trip out. Second trip out killed another doe and my first 10 point after 32 years of deer hunting. It's been a match made in heaven.
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
took me about 3 years before i got my first with a xbow,it was a doe! now Kathy got her license about 3 years ago and shot a buck about the fifth time in the stand and shot her second last year!
vixen 11
exocet 175 with Aging custom stock #27
Exocet 175
exocet 200
matrix 355
Micro Camo 335
Micro Nightmare 335
380 Lynx
BJ custom arrows
Boo string on vixen
exocet 175 with Aging custom stock #27
Exocet 175
exocet 200
matrix 355
Micro Camo 335
Micro Nightmare 335
380 Lynx
BJ custom arrows
Boo string on vixen
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
7 years until I got my first chance at a shot with my xbow.
________________
Sent from a mobile device - So spelling and grammar may be questionable!
---
"Team DryFire"
Vixen, Micro 315, HHA Optimizer, Boo & VixenMaster strings, Munch Mounts, Dr. Stirrup accessories.
Sent from a mobile device - So spelling and grammar may be questionable!
---
"Team DryFire"
Vixen, Micro 315, HHA Optimizer, Boo & VixenMaster strings, Munch Mounts, Dr. Stirrup accessories.
- Doe Master
- Site Admin
- Posts: 4741
- Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:57 am
- Location: Baden , Ontario
Re: How long before your first archery deer?
Two years before success .
Prone est ut nos es plurimus periculosus