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I have shot a bow for seven years now...hunted the last three and not a single shot....until today that is!!!

went out this morning and was in my tree stand by 0700..at about 0930 a nice doe showed up about 35 yds and upwind from me, she hung around for about 20 mins and never gave me a shot and then wondered off, I was starting to get disillusioned and almost said $%^& it! I’m done with this! sat in my tree stand for another 20 mins and this doe came out to my left about 30 yds away and down wind, to my surprise she just kept coming moving from left to right, finally stopped to take a sniff of a scent wick I put out about 15 yds away, all the practice, all the advise I got from this site just came to me and I made ,what someone later called, "the perfect shot"
two lungs and nickedthe heart, she went about 40 yds and I heard her crash out of sight, waited 45 mins just in case and got out of my stand packed up and went and got some help...long story not so short.... here she is.

BO

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here are the fellas that showed me how to field dress and helped carry her out.

BO

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How sweet it is!!!

Congrats!!

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May 12th of 2004?That's whats on the picture anyway.

What's the locale? Certainly looks warm for Oct.

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Nice doe. Great accomplishment. I to just shot my first deer last week, it was a doe also. This is my second year bowhunting. Congrats.

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Congratulations, nothing like drawing first blood with a bow!

I don't know if it is really necessary to have a "s.w.a.t. team" along to help with the clean up afterward though...;)

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3 years is all it took you? I'm on 6-7th year and haven't connected yet.

Great deer. Congrats on the bowkill.

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PSEBO,
Way to hang in there brother. Backstraps tonight.!!! What instalation you on?

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Congrats on the deer!!!

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Congrates on the first

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Nicely done, sir. Nicely done.

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congrats

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awesome man. I just ended my dry spell a couple weeks ago with a doe about the same as yours. Thats gonna be some very good eat'n. Congrats

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Congrats on the first. They all get easier after this. Welllllllllll....most of the time.[&:] Again, congrats on a great shot. Where are you stationed?

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Congratulations! The first one is always the hardest! Glad you didn't give up...should be some fine eating...I can smell those backstraps on the grill from here!!! Wrapped in bacon, medium rare, cold beer....doesn't get any better!

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That's what I'm talking about!!!!!

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Thanks all, it was awesome, I’m hooked for life now!

AppleOMH: I guess I better show my partner how to set the time and date on his digital!
Froman: hang in there! Your day will come.
Masterdiver/Davidmil: I am stationed at Robins AFB, GA, that's where I shot this doe.
Springgobbler: just bacon on it? No seasonings? Medium heat?

Thanks again all, I’m going back out Sunday

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I like to cut the backstraps into about 3/4" steaks (or you can leave it whole, then slice later either way) and either roll in crushed peppercorns or soak for just a bit in peppercorn/garlic marinade. Wrap in bacon and sear them on both sides then leave on medium heat until you get it to the doneness you want....mmmmm, good stuff! p.s....your buddies will be glad to help you with the next one after some of these.

Again, congrats...

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Nice!

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Gobbler, thanks for the recepie and you are dead on, as soon as i get the meat back from the processor it's miller time!

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AppleOMH, the location is Robins AFB, GA. the weather is still pretty decent, 70's for high and 40's overnight, if fact our rut doesn't start for another 2-3 weeks!

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Hopefully they leave your tenderloins whole...I remember one of the first one's I took to a butcher...they sliced them into little small thin pieces.[:@] I cut alot of my own up now, but if I ever take it to a butcher I always ask that they leave them whole, cut in half...leaves 4 nice pieces of whole tenderloin. I like to grill them up for friends or family over the holidays...if I have a good season tuck one away for a summer treat.

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Congratulations, as there's no more exciting event than your 1rst bow kill!!! Hopefully you'll have many more!!!

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Congrats on your first deer. You'll never forget that one. Good luck on the next and the next and the next.....:D

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DUDES,
Ya'll making me hungry. I got 1 week left till I get my turn. I as giddy as a kid in a candy store. Best of luck to all the rest of the season.

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Congrats Bo! Nice looking deer. :)

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Congrats dude!

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BBQ venison hind quarter. Bone it off the deer keeping it whole. Skin off the garbage and fat. When you're ready to cook make sure you've skinned off all the junk. Soak the meat overnight in salt water in the fridge. Lots of salt. You may want to change the water once before bedtime. The next day, take it out, drain, skin off the garbage. Prepare a package of McCormicks plain meat marinade according to the package instructions. Poke some holes in the meat all over with a fork. Marinate the meat in it for 20 or 30 minutes. Make some strings to tie it up and lay them out. Lay some strips of bacon across the strings. Lay the meat out across the bacon. Put a couple slices inside and roll it up and tie it into a nice roast. Cook slow on rotisserie over hickory or misquite until done. I like it done. The outside is to die for. We used to have a neighborhood cook out every summer. Everyone brought their own hotdogs and hamburgs. Well, I was on the culdesac where they held the thing so wheeled my grill and a cord for the rotisserie out to the street where we had the grills. Instead of burgers I started the venison about 10 AM. The men, women and children of the neighborhood, most of which were undecided about hunting(I was the only one in the 23 houses that owned a gun or anything. ANYWAY, they all started gravitating by the grill after 12. I had some forks and a couple sharp knives out. They started whittling on my venison around 12:30 or one. I never took it off the rotisserie before they had just about eaten the whole thing. They'd slab off a piece, dunk it in the BBQ sauce and pig out. THAT day they all said I could have venison as often as I wanted just as long as they got to come. It was thereafter a fixture in the neighborhood picnic as long as I lived there. LOts of hotdogs and hamburgers didn't get eaten.

If you don't want to serve a big crowd you can cut the hindquarter in a couple pieces...but it just isn't the same as watching the hind quarter off a 130 pound deer cooking on the rotisserie.

Serve with the following BBQ sauce.

1/4 Cup brown sugar, 1 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 cup catsup, 1/4 tsp pepper, 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 1 tsp. chili powder, 1/4 cup worcestershire, a few drops of tabasco, 1 cup water.

Combine all ingredients in boiler. Bring to a boil and boil hard for 2 min. Store in refrigerator. Keeps forever. Just heat it up when you need it.

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Congrats! Nice to get that first one out of the way.

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congrats on all the hard work paying off!!!

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Congrats! I don't know how you are with fried foods but you can slice the backstrap and wrap it with bacon with a slice of pepper in the middle or a water cheasnut season it a little use a toothpick to hold it together and deep fry it, talk about good!

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It all worked out in the long run. Congrats on sticking it out and you're success. Many more in the future.