This will be my first year hunting any tips?

[hill boy]

It's just deer hunting!don't be afraid to hunt from the ground,set up close,keep the wind in your face,pick a spot in the kill zone.make sure your broadhead is sharp.Oh yea, don't forget your gutting knife.  

[Trooper]

My advice:
   - use good two blade broadheads, get them    shaving sharp  
   - Shoot a heavy arrow
   - Get your bow shooting as quiet as you can
   - I get about 18 to 25 feet up a tree with my climber or loc-on; no lower and no higer  
   - I shoot year round but a few weeks before the season starts I'll practice from a tree in my backyard from a loc-on I have 20 ft up and I only shoot at a 3D deer tarket
   - Invest in a good tracking light and a compass

[2Blade]

I went and setup a stand today that is low but ive hunted from it before without deer seeing me. I took my longbow with me and what a diffirent ball game I feel like I have a telephone pole in the stand lol. If all goes as planned theyll come out in front of me and it wont be as hard to shoot. Staight down is pretty tough as is shooting behind me.

[Mike Orton]

When that shot opportunity presents itself don't shoot at the animal, shoot at a spot on that animal.  Shoot the tick that's hanging on just behind the front leg about 1/3 the way up.

Many guys will try to shoot the animal.....

[2Blade]

Can I expect to be a little more on the easy side once I get my first trad kill? As in ill be more relaxed when I get another shot?

[buckeye_hunter]

Personally, I still get wound up every time I make the decision to take a shot on an animal.  I have shot about a dozen deer and many a squirrel with various weapons.  I always get that shaky feeling and adrenalin pumping when I intend to send an arrow at a living creature.

That's just me,
-Charlie

[BRITTMAN]

Id say yes , if your like me you will make some mistakes on that first deer or two but try to learn from them . I have to say the first year I hunted with traditional felt fresh and new kind of like when I first started bowhunting . I guess you would say it made me feel young again and I achived my goals that year by taking and Buck , Doe and even a fox . Its a rush hunting with a stickbow after years of hunting with gun and compound , you will realise that your doing it the way it has been done for thousands of years " totaly instentive " with a stick and string !

Mike

[BRITTMAN]

Oh yea, remember to cut out the heart and eat it on your first kill ( LOL )

[JSimon]

I think it's all about gaining some confidence and I definitely recommend taking the first deer you can get a good shot at. I'm still a newbie, but getting that first one sure took alot of pressure off. Last year I just wanted to get something and I really felt that I would have to get lucky to do so. It seemed like it was going to be 100 times harder than with a compound, but after reading all of the stories on here, practicing a ton, and getting that first deer, using a trad bow no longer feels like a handicap. In fact, I now think that a trad bow has a great deal of advantages over a compound.

[Rico]

I took my first deer a small doe with the first arrow I ever shot using a recurve and a fiber glass arrow years ago and thought it was going to be easy. It was a good many years and a few blown shots before I finaly did connect with a buck.That seemed to break the ice for me and Today success comes regular with a few nice racks
  As far as how to get them close you hunt just like you did with the cb only you may not get as many opportunities. Letting them get in stick bow close is what it is all about for me anyhow.
  Good Luck this fall.

[sweet old bill]

give it up or you will be hunting for a life time.

 To many hours away from the wife, kids, job and other family members.

saving your coins or working a 2nd job to pay for the trips, bows, guns and other hunting items.

now at 66 years young, I wish this had been what my Dad told me, hey guess what he did, but sure has not worked out that way.

 I sure have had a great time with hunting, fishing and the outdoors. As well as still working hard to be a good familiy man and husband.

 Now married for 44 years to the same great women, she has always supported my love of the outdoors.

Bill