how many shots did it take you to get your first animal?

[$bowhunter$]

its a simple question...

[Bowwild]

October 1, 1970 about 5:30PM -- 1 Cedar arrow from a 45# Ben Pearson Cougar--5pt buck in Brown County, Indiana. The first live deer I saw in my life. I was 16.

Now really, it took thousands of shots in practice for me to make this shot.

[snuffysmith]

Well, to kill the deer it only took 1.
But i probably shot thousands of shots, just like the other guy said above, getting ready for the 1 that mattered.

[rastaman]

i killed the first deer i shot at almost 40 years ago.  She was 35 yards away.  She did a 180 before the arrow got there, but i got lucky.
i wish i could say the same for every arrow i've loosed since then at an animal!  

[Friend]

Took me three attempts on three different occasions before I scored. My first attempt on a whistle pig was at five yards, My second was at ten yards and the 3rd attempt was at 20 yards.  The big snuffer and fletching hit its marked and just vanished. I was ecstatic.

[Rick Butler]

Shot over and under a bunch before I finally connected only to lose that one to Coyotes.

[2 Barrels]

Yep the first year i hunted trad was 03.I had more oppurtunity's and missed more deer than i can remember.I center punched a ground hog at a steped off 13 yds.An hour later a six point was standing there smelling the ground hog.At the same 13 yds and completley missed him.LOL.About the third week of November that year i killed a button buck.When i was shooting compound i would of been out of tags by then.LOL.But i love it and it has got easier.Just not to easy.

[bigbadjon]

I missed two deer before closing it on the third, and it was over a couple of years. It wasn't a panic thing I just didn't know how to aim from a stand.

[greg fields]

8

[Matt Green]

First attempt - Yes, lots of luck (where patience, preparation and maybe some unknowns collide) involved. Good post - i've missed since then and it does good to know others have as well. Not that i expected to never shank a shot or that 'misery loves company' - just nice to stay grounded and motivated to improve.
good question/thread.
mgreen

First shot at an animal was a morning dove, I was five years old and I shot a bokin broadhead straight through it half of the arrow length. I still feel bad about it when I think about it, I am 59 now.  I don't feel that way about the tasty rabbits, geese, pheasants, deer and turkeys, not even the wood cock I shot on the fly that I shot with a 90 pound Big and had mounted and ate the meat.  Wasted game killing is a waste, no matter what age it is done at for me.

[chad graham]

my first deer a doe i missed her 3 times opening day and harvested her the next morning with my 4th shot!

[pruski]

In my compond days i got one my first year,,, when i took up the recurve i missed the first 20 deer clean misses, altho i won many 3d shoots for recurve class, i just couldn't pull it togther on deer.  Then the very last day of my second year with the curve, even after missing many shots that year also, i double lunged one the last day Dec 31st 1994...   I have had many great and succesful hunts since then but If I don't concentrate I will shoot right over them.  Left and right are always good....   cheers

[bobman]

one.....a carp

[joe ashton]

my first archery season I used a compound and missed an two elk and three deer.  The next year I had a Big Horn recurve and killed a mule deer with the first arrow I shot at a live animal... totally surprised me how deadly a broad head is.  Oh it took three more years before I got another animal..!

[SS Snuffer]

I've got 4 deer with 5 arrows with my longbow but I let them get very very very close (feet not yards)!

[Bob Macioch]

Well 1st animal was a Black Bear in NY.....1st time I ever hunted with a recurve and killed it with the 1st shot.....now later that season I missed the same buck 5 times at less then 25 yards in an hour....I grunted and he kept coming back.....if I only had another 5 arrows  LMAO

[elk nailer]

the first year I bow hunted was 1970. Used a lemon wood longbow and had 17 shots at deer and never touched a hair. I was hunting in northern michigan when there was a ton of deer. It was not unusual to see 60 or 70 deer in a weekend.

[Davt]

I shot my first dear, a small buck, my first day of hunting at age 14. It took me about 30 minutes, picked my own blind, had a group of 5 does and the buck come up and stand broadside at about 15 yards. the next one however took longer. I shot a big doe the next morning during a slow drive hunt with freinds, that took about an hour. Things went downhill from there.

[guspup]

The first 3 deer I shot at ducked, the fourth one didn't. I've been working on training them not to duck ever since.