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Offline Bear Heart

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How long for your first
« on: March 13, 2009, 09:52:00 PM »
How long did it take you to take your first big game?
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Offline Bjorn

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2009, 09:57:00 PM »
3 years
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Offline Hot Hap

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2009, 09:59:00 PM »
4 years to get a shot. Killed the deer. Hap
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Offline Buckeye Trad Hunter

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2009, 10:12:00 PM »
Missed a nice buck my first year.  Took a beaut of a button buck and a mature doe seven days apart my third year.  The button buck was my first ever trad kill.  Shot at 8 feet from the ground.
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Offline T Folts

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2009, 10:15:00 PM »
With trad gear 2 years.
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Offline BowHuntingFool

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2009, 10:15:00 PM »
I had a few shots on Does that I missed on my first year, I also killed a buck my first year, which was this past season!
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Offline ELKDUDE07

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2009, 10:16:00 PM »
2 Does, first season with tradbow. Bobby
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Offline IronCreekArcher

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 10:28:00 PM »
I was 12 years old (first year allowed to big game hunt) shot my first deer (button buck) on Jan 15, 1996 with 10 minutes of legal shooting light in Montana.  The temp was -15 degrees and dropping.  I shot him with a 55 lb Bighorn Recurve, cedar arrow of my making and a 125 grain Snuffer head.  I shoot the bow to this day and the arrow is on the wall.  In short it took me 4 1/2 months.
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Offline longbow1

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2009, 10:31:00 PM »
4.5 year old spike my first year, that was twenty years ago. Feels like it was yesterday, time sure does go by fast when youre having fun.
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Offline koger

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2009, 10:33:00 PM »
Since going trad fulltime I took a good 8 pt and a doe my first  2 weeks of the 2006 season. My  oldest buck ever, horns going back down in size, weighed 175 in sept, gutted, huge chest, teeth worn down to little brown nubs.
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Offline jrchambers

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 10:36:00 PM »
got a nice black bear and wolverine within a year and a half of hunting, that does not include shooting years.
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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 10:44:00 PM »
3 years
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Offline houseman

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2009, 10:47:00 PM »
My very first day with trad gear.  Now I did live in an area with alot of deer.  I did miss twice that day, had about 10 min. of light left.  Did shoot 4 deer that year.  Now it has been two years of livung out west and have missd a cow elk and shot a bull at ten yards that I never found for 4 days.  That being said, I hunt the way I hunt cause it's what makes me happy.  I could have shot 3 elk with a compound by now.  I would'nt be happy with it.  But that's just me.  It's my choice to hunt this way.  What's gonna be is gonna be.  Would'nt change it for anything.
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Offline VA Bowbender

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2009, 10:56:00 PM »
It took me about 5 yrs.
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Offline Wannabe1

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2009, 11:02:00 PM »
Been hunting since I was 14, now 40 and still waiting!   :biglaugh:
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Offline Recurve50 LBS

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2009, 11:18:00 PM »
Still waiting and still having fun after 5 years
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Offline Friends call me Pac

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2009, 11:52:00 PM »
This was my first year with trad and I got a doe the fourth day i went hunting.  Got another doe a few weeks later.  Passed up a lot of does waiting on a legal buck but it never happened.  Ended the season with the two does.

Made this out of the first doe.  I thought it would be a good way to remember her.

 
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Offline GMMAT

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2009, 12:12:00 AM »
Ive hunted with my trad tackle about 7-8 times in the last two seasons without taking anything.

I've decided to go all trad this fall, and "we'll see".
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Offline David in Hickory

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2009, 12:28:00 AM »
About a 3/4 of a month missed a doe before i shot a nice 8 point at 13 years old

David
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Offline arrowflinger1

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Re: How long for your first
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2009, 12:44:00 AM »
Missed a shot on my first year, killed a doe on my second, killed seven big game animals on my third.....
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