First buck with a bow (pic included)
 

As some of you know, I've been deer hunting since I was a boy, but just began bowhunting last year. Last November I killed my first ever deer with a bow- a doe-and that was the beginning of the end- I was hooked.

This past Thursday, I worked until 11:00 a.m., came home, packed up the car and drove with my wife and little girl to Ohio to stay with my cousin and his family for a couple of days and do some bowhunting. My cousin lives about a half hour from Cleveland in a small township called Columbia Station, and he has killed three monster bucks over the past four years, including his most recent 29 point non-typical that netted 192 5/8 inches.

I had never hunted anywhere besides my land in western Maryland, so saying that I was excited to hunt in Ohio would be a bit of an understatement. I stayed in the stand for 11 hours on Friday, and saw five deer. The first was a single deer that came out of the corn field and entered my woods just as it started getting light, but it was about 60 yards away and I was never able to see it clearly. An hour later, I had a nice mature doe and two button bucks walk right under my stand, and then I saw a small spike at 4:15.

Yesterday morning was in the mid 50's when we got up, so due to the high temps I didn't have very high hopes about an over-abundance of deer activity. At 7:30, I saw a deer that had come out of the corn field and was quickly working its way up through the woods about 100 yards from my stand. Knowing that I probably wouldn't have much of a chance to get a look at the deer, I quickly grabbed my grunt tube and grunted four or five times. To my surprise, the deer wheeled around, turned 90 degrees into my direction, and came to me on a string. There I was, scrambling to hang my grunt call back on the tree, get my bow, and snap my release onto the string. I soon saw that although he was no "Ohio monster", he was a buck that I would gladly take as my first with a bow... He continued to walk/trot above me and I found a small hole to shoot through at 30 yards. When he stepped into the lane, I let out a mouth bleat, stopped him, and released my arrow.

30 yard shot, caught his heart and one lung. He ran 20 yards, walked 10, stood still for 10 seconds, and fell over about 50 yards from my stand. I was so pumped up I almost fell out of the tree! He would have been an 8 point, but he was a 6 point due to a broken left beam.

This deer is a trophy to me and he'll never be forgotten.

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Great shot, awesome deer.

Vashadowhunter

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congrats on the 1st, ill never forget mine, and good luck from here on out

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You appear to me to be one HAPPY bowhunter!! Well done, but you gotta make some decisions about camo......ASAT and Realtree????

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LOL. No, that's ASAT and Advantage Timber, mobowhuntr. And to answer your question, my choice camo is ASAT. What you're looking at is the clothing I wore underneath my ASAT 3-D Leafy suit! ;)

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Congrats on the first buck/bow kill!! Great story too!

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Congrats on the great deer. Too bad your a Boston fan[:'(]

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Congratulations!! The first one is always special. Keep up the good shooting.

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Cograts on your first and a nice buck to boot.

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Way to go Jimbo!

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Great job on your first buck. Great story as well.

Again congrats!!!

Brian

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Nice job, you may feel like a rookie but it sounds like you played that buck like aseasoned veteran!

Congratulations!

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grats and good job

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Thanks everybody. Oh, and callemin, I'm not a BoSox fan! [8D]

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Ok:DIf not a BoSox fan then why the "Yuck the Fankees" are you a NY Mut (oops NY Met) fan. LOL:(

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I know I don't have much to brag about, but I'm an O's fan! [&:]

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I'll tell you guys if it wasn't for that ASAT 3D suit Jimbo wouldn't have stood a chance, there is only like 5 trees in all of Medina County!

All kidding aside, congrats and I hope you do even better in MD this year :)

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Not a bad way to start, congrats :)

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Great job on your buck ,may not be a 192 class but he's still a trophy .

nubo

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Jimbo, well i'm glad to hear your not a Met or BoSox fan. The O's did start pretty good this year.

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Great job! Congrats on your buck.

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Great job and great deer! I agree with the ASAT leafy suit, it works wonders.

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That's just awesome. Great picture. I've been bowhunting alot of years and still remember every detail of my first buck. You will never forget it.

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Congrats.

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Nice buck! And a darn good shot.

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Well Done!!

I know I'll never get enough of bowhunting, and I'll never forget my first deer/buck. Sounds like you won't either.

Way to go.

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congrats... it's always nice to shoot a deer from another county or even betteranother state... It just adds to experiance.