Your first Trad kill story and pics

[smoke1953]

After flinging my bow from my treestand in 1973 after 4 misses at one doe resulting in my change to a compound, I returned to a longbow in 2007 and shot this doe while walking back to the cabin in 2008. Most exciting day of hunting for me.

 

[reddogge]

Looking pretty dapper there smoke. Congrats on the nice doe.

[mec lineman]

Not much of a story teller but here it goes! I started shooting trad in 2005. It was early October and was leaving on a hunting trip early Thursday morning. So I got off work Wednesday, and headed to the woods to take down a hang on stand for my trip at the last minute. I had my bow and my rubber boots,but no clean clothes in my truck,so before I left work I grabbed a clean uniform shirt. The plan was to run in get stand and get the bleep out as quick as possible. You know you got to carry your bow in case right! I got in took the stand down and didn't even break a sweat. On the way to the truck I could hear deer chasing. I was on an old grown up fence line so I got down got hid and nocked an arrow. And the next thing you know old Jeds a millionare! He came right by in ten minutes and that wensel was on the way. I was telling Nathan Killen that I have never been able to get a desent pic of ANY of the deer I have killed. His response in his southwest va. accent was "get a dang camera man, they are not that expensive!" Anyway the buck was a 7pt. 23" spread. On my hunting trip I managed to miss a 250 lb. bear at 12 steps but I was still on cloud nine!  

[VictoryHunter]

2010 was my first year hunting with traditional equipment and I took this doe on a hunting trip in South Dakota with my Papa.

 

[Jerry Russell]

1980 was the year and I was a completely inept bowhunting teenager. The safest place for a deer in my area was under me, lol. This little guy came by and I flung an arrow in his general area and missed by a mile. As I sat there shaking in the cold, he came back to see what had happened. I slung another arrow in his general area. The arrow would have easily missed him by three feet but the unlucky little buck decided to take off running right into the flight of the arrow.

As I walked up to him laying there, I knew I would be doing this for the rest of my life.

 

[Nathan Killen]

Originally posted by mec lineman:
Not much of a story teller but here it goes! I started shooting trad in 2005. It was early October and was leaving on a hunting trip early Thursday morning. So I got off work Wednesday, and headed to the woods to take down a hang on stand for my trip at the last minute. I had my bow and my rubber boots,but no clean clothes in my truck,so before I left work I grabbed a clean uniform shirt. The plan was to run in get stand and get the bleep out as quick as possible. You know you got to carry your bow in case right! I got in took the stand down and didn't even break a sweat. On the way to the truck I could hear deer chasing. I was on an old grown up fence line so I got down got hid and nocked an arrow. And the next thing you know old Jeds a millionare! He came right by in ten minutes and that wensel was on the way. I was telling Nathan Killen that I have never been able to get a desent pic of ANY of the deer I have killed. His response in his southwest va. accent was "get a dang camera man, they are not that expensive!" Anyway the buck was a 7pt. 23" spread. On my hunting trip I managed to miss a 250 lb. bear at 12 steps but I was still on cloud nine!  

Lol...That's my bro ! And yes you need a camera to take quality picture of those big bucks....and he's got more than that one !    

[johnnyk71]

My first one was a doe, accompanied by her (large) fawn with no spots. It was late in the season, and the guys I hunted with were all shooting rifles. I was hunting a long, narrow food plot, from an elevated platform about 12-15 feet high. They strolled down the middle of the plot at about 18 yards, with momma in the lead (which was kind of surprising, looking back). I drew my 45# Hatfield, and let fly an Easton aluminum with a NAP Thunderhead on the front.

I hit her really high in the lungs, just under the spine, and watched the arrow sling out the other side as she ran off. Most of the blood stayed in her chest cavity due to the high hit. Luckily, she ran straight back up the plot the whole way before peeling off into the woods. I found a single drop of blood at about 50 yards, and started trailing her through some of the thickest, nastiest swamp thicket you could imagine. No help. It was a Sunday evening and everybody else had packed it in and gone home.

She went probably 150 yards through the thicket, but I found her. I'll never forget that I took my contacts out (thank goodness for LASIK, haha), and changed to my glasses. I must have knocked my darn glasses off a dozen times crawling through that thick crap and dragging her out. I was cussing and sweating, but I was happy. And I wouldn't change anything except that I would have like to have been in the hero pic with my bow and the deer, haha! May have to see if I can dig that picture up. I've never sold or traded a single bow I have. That Hatfield is now my bowfishing rig, and I love it!

[Rob W.]

In 2008 I committed to switching to trad. Season opened on Oct.1 and on Oct. 3 I had this nice doe come past my stand about 10 yrds. I was using a Darton Superflite Ranger 45#@28" Legacy arrows and a Snuffers. I never looked back.


 

[Terry Green]

First Trad Kill....First Trad Kill on the ground...First Trad Kill rattling...First Trad Kill on the old family homestead we got back in the family where my great great Grand Father was born....What memories this thread just brought back....