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Author Topic: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???  (Read 2287 times)

Offline split arrow

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #80 on: October 26, 2009, 10:08:00 PM »
Third times a charm. I missed two, clean over the back before i placed a good shot on this one.


 
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Offline DoubleJ1929

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #81 on: October 26, 2009, 10:08:00 PM »
Yes, got the first deer I ever shot at....  with the second shot.  It was two weeks ago and the first time I ever took my long bow to the stand.  Missed her at 12yds then drilled her at 22yds??
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Offline adkmountainken

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #82 on: October 27, 2009, 11:29:00 AM »
Split Arrow,
     great picture man! looks like a pretty heavy doe.
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Offline Wary Buck

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #83 on: October 27, 2009, 11:47:00 AM »
No, but the one I missed in late September I later killed in late October.   :)   Pretty nice 4x5 taken on a Platte River Island and the article appeared in the TBM issue that had the late Paul Schafer on the cover.  But I think I also missed two other deer in between.  

Man, I was pretty green with the stickbow back in '88.  And now I shoot a pretty green stickbow.   :)
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Offline Lone archer

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #84 on: October 27, 2009, 06:18:00 PM »
Shot six arrows emptying my quiver at my first doe at less than 10 yards. Took the hair off her twice. My arrows were sticking in the ground all around her and she never moved. Either did the 10 or so other does near by! From that day on I was hooked! Try that with a compound!
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Offline Michael Arnette

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #85 on: October 27, 2009, 06:26:00 PM »
I missed my first, right over the back of the biggest buck I have ever shot at.

Oh, did I mention the distance was about 5 yards.

Of course I also missed the first deer I shot at with a compound and several more after the first.
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Offline Mike Gibbs

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #86 on: October 27, 2009, 07:03:00 PM »
Not only did I miss the first one, but I missed all of 'em for years and years until I learned to pick a spot. I could kill squirrels and groundhogs and rabbits, but when it came to deer, I ALWAYS shot way the heck over their backs. Once I understood that the animal coming toward me was not a deer, but only a spot, I started connecting.
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Offline Fletcher

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #87 on: October 27, 2009, 10:34:00 PM »
I have no idea how many deer I've missed over the years, but I know for sure I missed several before I finally connected.
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Offline ed burgholzer

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #88 on: October 29, 2009, 07:48:00 PM »
1967.catskills. first day. climbed into an old apple tree,with my hoyt pro hunter. in about thirty minutes two does walked down the mountain. right to me. i shot the bigger one. it took me 4 hours to find her. she didn't go more then 100 yards. but in my excitment i got off the blood trail and got lost.. remember it like it was yesterday.. Ed
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Offline JEFF B

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #89 on: October 29, 2009, 08:04:00 PM »
hell no i missed about 10- maybe 12 before i started to get meat on the table. and i still miss every now and then. LOL!!! but hey its all fun if i miss or if i get one. i love it.  :archer:
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Offline wapitimike1

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #90 on: October 29, 2009, 10:01:00 PM »
Yes, oh how I long for those days!!!
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Offline LITTLEBIGMAN

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Re: did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???
« Reply #91 on: October 29, 2009, 10:05:00 PM »
ha! good one!
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