Your First Big Game Animal

[Izzy]

Originally posted by J-dog:
Izzy, we call multi flora rose cat briars down here. Do not know how anything other than a rabbit goes through that stuff! Hope you didn't have to drag her through much of it

WT Doe here for me, don't wanna say how many yrs it took me but worth it, all of it. Just hunting Croatan can be akin to hunting a wasteland. Just got to put miles on the boot leather or in the boat and find that land that holds em.

Yep, same miserable stuff but it sure provides cover for game. Deer, grouse and rabbits all take advantage of it where I hunt and I have thorns in my leg that will be with me til my last day on earth.

[screamin]

My first was a 4x3 mule deer with a Windwalker kit bow in 93. I was hunting with wheels for 8 yrs previous and the year before had blown a shot that I knew in my mind I could have made with a recurve, I've been shooting since I was a kid. So I bought that kit bow and finished it for the next years hunt. It paid off, the shot I made happened so fast that there is no way I could have done it with a wheel bow. 2117 and a Magnus 2.

[overbo]

1979( I was 14 ), Darton 45lbs recurve w/ a 1918 Wasp tipped arrow. Spike whitetail shot at 30yrds. Hit high and back, my german shepherd found him about 100yrds away the next morning.

 I had to come back to the house w/ blood on my hands to convince my older brother to take his truck and load him up.

[Slickhead]

Button buck
24 yds out of a tree
44 pound longbow with a simmons 2 bade

[yeager]

Mine was a black bear with my Bob Lee Classic, CE Heritage 250 tipped with the old Bear razorhead.

[DaveT1963]

Mine was a forkie whitetail I took the first season I picked up a bow and the very first shot I ever took at a deer.  To say I was hooked would be a vast under-statement. I learned quickly that any future successes would not come so easy - its been a great ride and one of the most fulfilling things I have come to love.  I just cannot imagine a Fall passing by without some time on stand with one of my longbows or recurves in hand.

[Hoyt]

Killed a hog one early afternoon in area E-2 in Ft. Stewart, Ga. early 60's. I'll never forget my buddy and myself knew they were coming into a planted millet field back in there..for doves I think.

We got there and eased to the edge of the field to look around and here comes a hog straight towards us. We kneel down and as the hog roots it's was to about 15yds. I heard my buddy's aluminum arrow tapping against his sight window..nerves.

Anyway we both draw and shoot and I got lucky with a Bear broadhead.

Michigan Whitetail.  Snuck up on a bedded spike I watched lay down from another ridge.

I was 16 years old then and hunting with a Browning Nomad Stalker recurve.  It took forever to circle but I was finally able to approach from downwind.  

I took a shot at about 15 yards above him looking downhill which gave me an almost impossible shot...had to be spine or nothing.  I shot low, tucking my arrow between him and the ground....he jumped up and bounced around a bit (funny) but he could not see me.  I don't remember knocking another arrow but do remember the shot....hit him high in the lungs.  
 
That was 46 years ago and remember it in living color.

[mnbwhtr]

Dec 3,1967 Whitetail button buck in Necedah, Wisconsin. 20 yard shot from the ground, Bear Kodiak, #8 microflight arrow tipped with a black panther broadhead.

[Stump73]

Mine was a 7lb hog.which yelled 3.7lbs of very yummy meat. Thanks to BigJim and Preacher.

[Stump73]

Mine was a 7lb hog.which yelled 3.7lbs of very yummy meat. Thanks to BigJim and Preacher.

[Mint]

Small eight point buck. Came by my treestand at around 15 yards and I didn't pick a spot and skimmed his back.

 He jumped a few feet and there was a hole in the brush that showed his kill zone perfectly. Well I picked a spot and shot.

I was using red and orange fletching and I thought I saw the fletching and that my arrow hit to far back. Then I thought I heard the buck being pissed off and racking the brush before running away.

 Well I waited until dark and then walked out with my little Maglite flashlight to come back in the morning to look.

Got in to my treestand and waited for the sun to come up to go look. Come down from my stand to go look for the arrow and there is the buck 20 yards away. I had made a perfect shot taking out the heart and lungs and what I thought was the fletching was blood that spurted out. What I thought was the buck raking the bushes was of course the buck falling over and kicking the leaves dying.

I still laugh at how clueless I was back then.

[dragonheart]

My first deer was with a longbow and wood arrow, on the ground, still hunting in the Hill Country of Texas.

   

And yes, that is a Robin Hood hat on my head...LOL!

[Caleb the bow breaker]

My first was a whitetail spike buck here in Nebraska.  Came right in and after the shot, went down within sight.  There were lots of ups and downs before and have been more since but I still remember it like it was yesterday and could take you to the tree I was in and to the spot where I saw him go down.

[Sixby]

Mine was a blacktail buck that made a bad mistake. I flung an arrow and he looked at it. Right over the eye and instant kill. He went down so fast I did not even see him fall. I remember looking where he had been standing and wondering why my arrow was sticking straight up from the ground and where in the world did that buck go to. He was standing in high grass that completely hid him from me when he hit the ground. It was in 1970. The bow was an old Ben Pearson hunter and was probably the worst bow I have ever owned . But it made meat for my family and working at a job for 2.00 an hour that made me very thankful.

God bless, Steve