did you kill the FIRST trad deer you shot at???

[Kenneth]

killed the first hog I shot at, but there's 4 mule deer in WA and 2 blacktails in CA that know what an arrow sounds like when it zips over their back.     I haven't gotten the chance for a shot at a whitetail yet, but I hope when I do it meets with the same fate as the hog.  :D

[luv2bowhunt]

LOL!! Nope  :D

Took a few misses for me to finally start calming down and making my self pick a spot and let the subconscious do its work. I still have misses now and then, just gotta figure out the mind game!

[JSimon]

Yes, two years ago I shot the buck in my avatar, which was my first shot at a deer with a stickbow. Never shot last year and I've missed twice this year. I ended up getting the first deer I missed this year with a second followup shot. I missed what would have been my second biggest buck on Sat. Perfect 15 yard broadside shot and fired right under him. I need to work harder at calming down, picking a spot, and keeping my bow arm up.

[Jason Jelinek]

Yes I did, it took a few more years before I got another one though!

[dagwood64]

I'll let you know, when I get a shot at one...    

Duane

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I was gong to say that I never shot a at a deer yet with trad equiptment but realized it's a lie.

My first shot at a deer with a bow was when I was 15.  45# Bear recurve.  Didn't think of it as Trad back then.

The basket rack with a lot of points (stickers everywhere) was trotting in. I found a hole in the brush at about 18 yards where he was going to pass.  I picked that spot in the brush and right before the deer entered the hole I released.

He stopped dead in his tracks and I missed just in front of him when he heard the twang of the string.  Perfect shot through the hole in the brush, right where I was aiming just no deer in the hole.LOL

Great memory for me.

Charlie

[trapperDave]

nope

[ishiwannabe]

I missed the same deer twice last year, got the first deer I shot at this year.

[bear1336]

Missed a FEW before I connected and have missed a FEW more since than.  LOL

[centaur]

I have never missed anything, but I sure have scared several dozen on purpose. If you believe that, I have a nice bridge that I am selling in Brooklyn.

[fountain]

yep!  

back in 98.  i was bout 15 with a kodiak magnum.  i had been playing/practicing a long while and finally figured i would go with the recurve.  i remember sharpening the buck pole patriot head almost all day the day before!  i was usung a 2117 out of the bow.
i was hunting an old hardwood ridge loaded with oaks.  i was sitting in a 12'ladder.  i had a little spike come in.  as he got closer to the big oak i decided that i would draw when he went behind it.  i did and at the shot i saw it burry tigh in the creasr behind the shoulder and as if in slow motion, the arrow passed though the deer, stopped in mid air and fell to the ground.  i jumped down and we to get my dad to recover him.
on the way back in a group of hogs had came in and my dad shot one of the hogs.  the sad part of the hunt is that both animals went downt the same trail.  i really didnt get to trail my deer like i wanted but the hog and deer only went about 30 yards and were piled up pretty close together.  
a great hunt and my first time out eith trad gear.  i would go on back to the compound until last deer season came in and have been carrying it ever since.

[razorsharptokill]

Yes. Missed my second though.

[katie]

My 1st trad deer was a very nice 8 pointer at 10 yards.  Right over his back.  Almost cried.  I decided it was my heart jumping out of my chest that hit my arrow and sent it high:)
Missed a doe on my 2nd.  Shot low.
Have beem dead on with the next 2 deer(buck and doe).
Let you know how the rest of this season goes!
When I miss I got back to the spot and re-do it.  Same stance, same draw.  Go over t in my head.  It helps me to see why I missed and remember not to do the same next time.  I missed a doe once because she was on edge and jumped.  Now I just don't take that kind of shot.  Not worth it if they jump and your arrow wounds and not kills.  That is a hard rule for me sometimes.  Just don't want the heartbreak of a lack luster blod trail!
Got out and get you another shot Ken!

[Mint]

Nope, I hit a doe in the shoulder and needless to say no pentration. I was really feeling bad about it a long time too. Then about a month later I shot at a small 8pt and made a perfect shot.

[Eric Krewson]

When I started bowhunting, before wheels were invented, I missed the first three then killed one.

On my return to Trad in 89 I killed the first two I shot at and missed the next 11, all my shots went over their backs.

I got into 3D and became deadly after I learned to pick a spot.

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Yes, I was 12. I missed the second, third and fourth. #4 was the first buck that I had offer me a shot. I missed him FIVE times!Emptied my quiver.(Can you say "Buck Fever?")
I was so mad at myself I could have spit nickles.
I went home and practiced everyday in every weather, in every possible position I could imagine might happen from 3 feet to 110 yards. Went to every broadhead shoot I could.
Killed my first buck the next season.

[buckshot95]

well i killed my first buck with a compound. then the next year i went to trad and i missed 2 bucks and i still waiting this year i hope i can get one this year.

[adkmountainken]

thanks everyone for sharing your stories! i see i am in good company, i don't feel as bad and learned a few things from everyone's misstakes, PICK A SPOT if the theme, think i am also going write that on my bow!

[adkmountainken]

little paint for a slow learner!
 

[leatherneck]

Heavens no!!!!! I think I missed about ten before I finally hooked up. I hunted a stand back in the mid 90's in WvA and I missed the same doe 4 times. Yes,4 times in the same sitting. I thought the tree was bad luck so I moved the stand. Well I ended up missing 6 more times that week. I ended up connecting on a doe later that season. I was having fun though.