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

[celticknot]

4 it was a frog the first night i had my bow.

[Pat B]

I missed 9 and wounding one(he survived)before taking a nice fat doe at 8' from my tree. Don't know if I'd take that shot again.

[House]

First arrow at big game...my first year trad hunting and one homemade cedar arrow with zwickey eskimo shot out of a 52 pound Dwyer Defiant at 17 yards...watched the spike bull elk pile up 30 yards after the hit.  Without a doubt the greatest feeling in my 20 plus years of big game hunting.  That was in 2004.  Not every arrow since then was that perfect, but I'll never forget that feeling of the first...I hope!

Travis

[ECRESS]

first time trad. hunting this year.first day first aarrow at game.spine shot droped her at 15yds.dont believe in luck but GOD did smile on me that day.

[BTW]

I had played around with a compound a few years with no results. I was tired of all the gadgetry and knew a stickbow was my destiny. My friends thought I was nuts, but were really impressed with my new Leon Stewart recurve.

So there I was one evening in October, and a nice doe comes out of a clearcut I had put a stand next to.  She walked to 10 yds., I drew and shot right over her. She ran a few yards uphill. Now eye level at about 18 yds. Picked my spot and released another arrow. Knew I hit her but not sure where so I left her till morning. A short track the next morning into the clearcut and there she lay. What a feeling!  Perfect shot behind the shoulder right into the heart. The cedar arrow and zwickey delta did it's job...........So two shots for my 1st tradkill.

[JCJ]

It took me two shots to make my first kill.

[Overspined]

1

[Walt Francis]

One

[the longbowkid]

so far im 4 for 4 for shots at game. hope to maintain a ratio like that

[BOWMARKS]

Took me 3 to bag my first,wow what a rush!!    

[Bonebuster]

Two. I missed a big doe on a cold morning in October 1978.

That same evening, I redeemed myself, and did the "impossible".

[swampdrummer]

Lets see... Started flinging arrows at critters two years ago.Killed the first hog I shot at. Not where I was aiming but managed to pick up the artery along  the spine just in front of the back legs. Killed a few more hogs over the summer. Missed a few more. Had a BIG boar come in one night and picked a spot low behind the shoulder while, at the same time looking at his tusks. Like 3 yards away. I remember telling myself that I can't screw this one up. I did.... The arrow hit exactly in the middle of where I was looking and stuck him thru the top of his neck. No blood, No trail. He is still around.

Deer? Shot at the same 3 does 5 times over a months time.Some were close. A couple of shots where so far off that the damn deer went over and smelled my arrow!
I finally hit a big doe one evening still picking a spot behind the shoulder. BUT looking at the head at the same time. I felt so sick watching that deer run off with an arrow stuck in her neck just below her jawbone.
Big blood trail straight into a deep swamp. I backed out for an hour then went back in and tracked her with clotted blood in the water. She never laid down till she dropped. Didn't figure she would with a damn arrow slinging around her head as she ran. That was my first trad deer but I wasn't happy about it.

December 2nd, 2009 I had a little 6 pt come in right at dark. Heart shot at 17 yards and ran a little over a hundred yards before dropping. THAT was my first trad kill, done the right way!
   

So, Prolly went 50/50 on hogs that first year. 2 for 7 on deer.

This year I'm 2 for 5. But the 2 were perfect. Less than 50 yard runs and heard them both crash. Then managed to miss 3 more this season.

[fivebears]

I was fortunate enough to kill the first deer I shot at,was able to shoot him twice actually.Since then I've had nothing but character builders but I think I learn a little something from each miss.

[greyghost]

One.

[OutbackMan]

Technically it took three arrows...All three shot from a treestand...First arrow was at a large red fox at about 17 yds...blade just slid under his belly and arrow shaft thumped him in the side...actually had some hair on the shaft from it, but nothing else...Second was a fox squirrel at about 15 yards...Thumped him w/a blunt, he flipped, squirmed off about 5', and stopped...he must have crawled off when I wasn't looking, cause when I got down I couldn't find him anywhere...Third arrow released at an animal was my money shot...it was at a doe at 15-17 yds...Smoked her and she only ran about 20 yds...

I just started shooting a recurve at the beginning of last year, so all these where during my first hunting season w/a recurve...

Thousands....

[bear1336]

3rd shot 2 on Drummond Island Mi were misses and the 3rd shot in WV connected on a doe year 1963...

[ron w]

Started with a recurve in 1968, Had a shot in 1971, haven't had a shot opportunity since. Came close this year 3 times on turkeys but it never came together. Next week I go on a pig hunt and I hope my luck changes.

[imhntn]

I killed the first deer I ever shot at.  Spined him on the first shot.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

First deer taken with trad Bow, Was in 2005 Sept, Opening Day.. I even have it on Video (somewhere). I started shooting My trad bow full time Starting around Dec 2004. I must have shot 50 - 70 arrows a day. You can do that Math...