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Offline kasey

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shot at first deer with trad gear
« on: October 03, 2009, 08:01:00 PM »
and missed.if you don't pick a spot you will miss i found out.i shot at the whole deer.i shot a tree rat 5 min later in the head.
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Offline longbowben

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 08:04:00 PM »
Been thier done that.  :banghead:
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Offline swampdrummer

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 08:14:00 PM »
yep, for sure. I've done it five times so far this season!!You keep at it and so will I.
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Offline David Lewis

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2009, 09:07:00 PM »
I missed more then a couple before I got my first deer with Trad gear.
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Offline sendero25

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2009, 09:35:00 PM »
I can't remember where I read this but I like it, and I do it -
"I did pick a spot, it was 4 feet long, 2 feet high, and brown"
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Offline ishiwannabe

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2009, 09:40:00 PM »
I did it twice on the same buck last year. Im hoping for my first trad deer this year...
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Offline vtmtnman

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2009, 06:45:00 AM »
I think all 21,000 of us have been there at some time.I KNOW I have.
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Offline mcgroundstalker

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 06:49:00 AM »
Me Too.......
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Offline straitera

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2009, 09:57:00 AM »
Experience 101.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2009, 10:16:00 AM »
In 74 I missed my first shot at a deer from 5 yards, on the ground. She was standing behind a boulder with her vitals exposed, I hit the boulder. I followed this bad shot with by sticking a razorhead in a tree about 1" from a squirrels head at 50yds.

When I came back to trad in 89, I killed the first 2 deer I shot at and missed the next 11. I then got interested in 3D shoots which train you to pick a spot.

If I draw on a deer now it is going to the freezer. I pick my shots carefully and let everything walk that is further away than 20yds or isn't either broadside or slightly quartering away. I also pass on a deer looking at me, also a very low percentage shot.
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Online trad_bowhunter1965

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2009, 10:31:00 AM »
Kasey we all miss it all part of the fun hang in there.Blake
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Offline Michael Arnette

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2009, 04:59:00 PM »
Kasey,
Don't let it get you down. Missing is part of the begining experience. The first time I went out with my stickbow I missed the biggest buck I had ever had a chance at: at the great distance of 5 yards!
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Offline stickbow2442

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2009, 05:09:00 PM »
Yep..me to.
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Offline Biggie Hoffman

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2009, 05:13:00 PM »
I mmmmmmissed once...I remember it.
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Offline Kenneth

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2009, 08:23:00 PM »
yep I've educated a lot of critters by not picking a spot!
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Offline hill boy

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2009, 09:51:00 PM »
Kasey!It's called catch and release.I practice this annually in order to preserve tags.Nothing worse then running out of tags.  :thumbsup:
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Offline razorback

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2009, 10:33:00 AM »
can't say I've ever missed a shot at a deer. Can't say I've hit any either. Probably should let go of the string sometime.
 :D    :knothead:    :D
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Offline **DONOTDELETE**

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2009, 03:43:00 PM »
Can't say I've missed a deer either. I HAVE, just can't say it.....  :banghead:
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Offline E. Texas HillBilly

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2009, 04:37:00 PM »
A couple of years ago I missed a doe three times at 15yrds before she got bored and walked to the other side of the tree, she never even knew I was shooting at her...it happens...the next day I shot her through the heart and 30yrds, through the fork of a tree. Go figure. There are days when you just have to set the bow down and walk away. I was practicing once and I missed a round bale...from 10 yards, now thats embarrassing. We all have those days. Keep after it and you will know success.
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Offline twitchstick

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Re: shot at first deer with trad gear
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2009, 05:10:00 PM »
Missed a few too........
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