Lets show the new members our 1st trad game!

[habujohn]

Have to agree that this is a great thread.  Wish I could find a picture of my first deer, a doe in 1969.  Was shooting a Pen Pearson recurve pulling 40#, home made p.o. cedars and MA-3.  Shot her hunting from the ground at ten yards, I was 12 years old.  Ocqueoc river in northern Michigan.

[b.glass]

My first trad kill was either a carp or a ground hog. My first deer was the one in my avatar. I would post a bigger pic if pb would cooperate. I shot him with a Fox longbow 47@26" and home made carbon arrow with a Wensel Woodsman bh. Kentucky late Sept. 2004.

[Goshawkin]

Here's my first deer,must have been  around 1989-'90. Black Widow 67@27" with a xx75 and either a 125gr. Thunderhead or Snuffer. My buddy had just started a taxidermy shop so he mounted it for me for free.
 

[jsweka]

Not too long ago - 2005.  My first deer with trad bow - Great Plains recurve that my Dad baught me for a college graduation present.  It wasn't the best of shots and I recovered her the following morning.

 

[RAU]

[kbetts]

My first traditional hunt.  Lasted about 45 minutes.  The start of something special.
62# MA II, 2018 and a Razorcap.

 

Followed up in the fall by my first trad buck kill.
60# Kimsha Mattawoman II, GT shaft, WW head.

 
(Still need to photoshop the darn tongue)

[Fattony77]

My only bow kill of any kind (so far) was a carp with a flu-flu and field point just a couple feet from where I was fishing off the bank, summer of 2011(?). I'll definitely add to this thread when I finally connect with a mammalian target.  

[MnFn]

 1972, got it with my Shakespeare Wonderbow, 40# @28, Bear broadhead. Two weeks later I was in the Army.

[bondo]

First trad deer. Selfbow, and stone point.

[Overspined]

1991 in the Northern Lower Peninsula of MI.  Second sit with a longbow. My dad hunted with me on that trip, and he's still never taken a shot in all these years.  Nevertheless he still hunts elk with me every year, and shoots the longbow all summer. Just shows You don't have to kill to enjoy traditional archery.  
 
   

[Canadabowyer]

Overspined, what bow is that, looks pretty cool.  Bob

[Overspined]

44# 62" Great Northern Bushbow. All Osage. Uncle bought it for me to get me away from wheels.

[Tsalt]

This crappy cell phone pic makes the photo look older than it is...  2008 - spine-shot doe from a steep 10 yards with an old hand-me-down 48" Ben Pearson recurve 55@28.

 

[Bowwild]

Here is the first recurve kill I've made in 34 years. It was my first year without compounds in 2010.

This was a doe I shot at 21 yards. She dropped in sight, 52 yards from my tree stand. The bow is a Strickland Stick with a 46# draw @26". The arrow was a 416 grain Beman MFX Classic.

Interestingly, neither the arrow or the bow are currently available.

 

[saltwatertom]

My first big game kill was a mule deer doe next to the Gunnison river near Paonia CO, but that was before cameras were invented, so no pics of that.    

Here is the first ram I shot. Last November on the Big Island.

 

       :D    

[Gun]

This is the first I have a pix of. '68 or '69? I shot some Carp before this but no pix. Probably mid 60's.   :D

 

[JParanee]

One of my first big bucks

Posing with my mom

 

[BEN]

First Trad. kill.....and only 'yote with a bow so far....
 

[Deeter]

Man all these are awesome!  I love to look at old hunting trophy photos from years ago.  It reminds me of why I love hunting so much and its because of the heritage and brotherhood.  This is gonna be my first year for trad trust me october cant get here quick enough!