i hit the bullz eye everytime from 40 yards but iam 0 for 3 this year, im starting to like rilfe more []

wow guys...this is turning out to be a good poll. just kinda...puts it all intp perspective. shows the new archers not to get too discouraged and just how hard it can be to make a good solid hit...keep the results coming!

I missed and missed again! It took me about three years of hunting before I finally got a deer. I took the doe at 8 yards double lung.

My first shot at a deer was at a little six pointer. He was working a scrape with an overhanging branch. I cut off the overhanging branch. That was 1992 and many deer ago. By the way after more practice my second shot was thru both lungs of a big old doe.

Actually I forgot about my true first shot at a deer. I was 12 and grazed the back of a button buck. I took 20 years off before getting into bowhunting again 3 years ago.

Since starting 3 years ago I'm 5 for 5 (knock on wood).

wow..never forget this sucker..first deer i ever shot at..nice 5X5 that walked 20 yards out from me..i made a really bad shot and still managed to find him the next day all piled up..

right over the back of a 7 point

bow huntings amazing, the shots ive missed were a 10 yard shot, a little branch about half an inch deflect my dubble lung shot on a nice buck, than i missed a 20 yard shot because i used to the wrong pin than a 40 yard shot due to another branch getting in the way.

Set up in a 17 ft. Ladder stand off the side of a logging road through my lease that the deer would walk down. Around 8:30 a.m. a spike walked from my right to left moving from behind me to in front and past me into a quartering away shot. I let the arrow fly with the deer at 27 yards. The arrow went in 2/3 back in the ribs and the deer jumped / kicked and bolted forward literally slamming into a pine tree and climbing it. He then flipped over backwarks in the air, jumped up and ran into another much smaller tree that had been bowed over by a skidder about 5 yards away. After hitting that tree he fell over dead. Distance traveled after the shot was about ten yards forward to one tree and about five yards to the next. I was shaking so bad afteer I shot, I had to sit down for a while to regain my composure before I fell out of my stand.

Then I got stupid.... I remember thinking ( in a funny way )"WOW, that wasn't so hard. What's all this blood trailing and tracking stuff about." I was relatively young, about 25,and stupid. I hit a great shot, that entered 2/3 back on the left side, and just barely exited in front of the shoulder on the right. I had a great damage path. The deer died within 15 seconds of the shot. He may not have died as much from my shot as he did from the way he slammed into the two trees, knocking himself silly.

But I remember it like it was yesterday, even-though it was about 16 years ago. I was shooting a PSE Polaris Express, and Easton 2213's. That was my first compound bow and my first bow deer. And the last time I did not have to worry about a blood trail....LOL

My first shot at a deer with a bow was at a yearling doe. Hit her in the butt. However, the broadhead sliced the femural artery and she didn't go far. It was total luck, but I would rather be lucky than good

Now, my first 4 shots at elk were all misses (some over, some under), and they are only about 3 times as big