RE: first shot at a deer
 

Smoked my first. It was a doe at 6 yards.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

I was 16. I bought a bow on a Wednesday, practiced Thursday and Friday. (never shot a bow before that) Went on my first bowhunt Saturday and smoked a 5 point at 5 yards. He fell over dead. didn't take one step.
Disclaimer....Don't try this at home. Become very proficient before taking shots at game. You owe the animal a humane kill. This was a rare occurance and I was lucky in all aspects.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

Missed clean at 12 yards. Not sure where the arrow went because I didn't even remember letting it go! Found the arrow, no blood, no hair. Watched the doe eat in a corn field for the next 2 1/2 hours trying to figure out what the hell happened.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

I chose "wound/recovered. My first shot was at a spike @20yds. I spined him, finished him off with my Kershaw. I'd rather miss completely than spine another animal.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

My first shot was last September at a doe. Forgot to look where the arrow hit her. I heard the thwack and she hauled a$$ up the hill. Waited 30 minutes got my arrow and it was partially covered in blood, bone and white hair. Went to camp and waited 2 hours to start tracking. No blood at all down the path she ran and then we jumped her about 100 yds from where she was shot and her guts where hanging out of her side. Let her be for another 2 hours and she expired 2 feet from our ATV trail. I ended up a little high and nipped 1 lung, broke some ribs and liver. Huge exit hole was blocked by her insides therefore not much blood except where she bedded down.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

First day ever hunting with my bow and the biggestbuck I've ever seen in the woods stops dead on the scent trail I drug. Twenty feet from the bottom of my ladder stand in a clearing. I drew back, calmed myself, thaught about what everyone told me aboutaim low from a tree, placed my ten yard pin at the bottom of his armpit, hit the release, and thwack!!!! One Easton with a 100 grain Muzzy straight into the ground below him.Never saw that deer again. He probably laughs everytime I enter the woods.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

Wow it was so long ago? Hmmm let me seehere if i can remember?Yup i sure do. It was a miss like no other my shot was 2ft over its back:DI think i missed 2 or 3 before tagging my first.
I could hit a 16 oz bottle top at 30yrds but i couldn`t hit a deer walking 15yrds from my tree:Dnerves[:'(]

RE: first shot at a deer
 

I was either 13 or 14 when I lobbed a 2117 Easton Treetrunk out of aFred Bear Whitetail Hunter (plastic roundwheels)at an unsuspecting doe my first year bowhunting. The shot was right at 20 yards and I hit her squarely in the paunch. The shot was initially online, but while the arrow was in flight, she took a full step forward, and it entered way back. That was when everybody used those Bear $1.29 cut-on-impact broadheads with the little bleeder blades. You guys who have played with the Bear Whitetail bows - you know how slow they were. Painfully slow.

Anyway, she went about 80 yards and lied down to die. I didn't know how long to wait, so I waited for my uncle to come out to get me (1/2 hr.). He was more concerned about getting out of the woods and to McDonald's for lunch, so we immediately rushed out there and bumped her out of the bed. He never did take me back there to look for her that night or the next day. "It was only a doe, and you made a bad shot." "She'll be fine." "Chalk it up to experience." That's the advice I got.

I'll chalk it up to something allright. Chalk it up to never hunting with you again, so I didn't. Saved up and the following year, I bought a PSE (the modelname escapes me)that was light years ahead of the Whitetail bow from a technological standpoint. By today's standards, that PSE was also molasses slow and behemoth, but back then, it was the apex of technology. Icapitalized onmy first shotthe following year, and all was well in the world.

RE: first shot at a deer
 

1st was an 8pt he was head on to me..I shot him in the neck catching the jugular vein. Spewing blood like a loose hose he went down in 20 yards.. I didn't know better, after a lifetime of rifle hunting. I thought it was a good shot. It worked out great but not a shot I'd readily take today, even though I'm a much better shot now!

RE: first shot at a deer
 

My first shot with my bow at a deer was when I was 15. I was walking to a small food plot way back in the woods. The road was sand and red clay. The wind was in my face and I had my climbing stand on my back. As I approached the food plot I noticed the back of a deer sticking over a little rise in the field. So I backed up eased my stand down and knocked an arrow. I slowly crept back to the field and the deer had moved closer I still couldnt see its head. That didnt matter at the time though. I guessed 25 yards, drew and let er rip. To my suprise the deer fell straight down. I closed the distance and noticed it was a spike. I was to busy doing my happy dance that I didnt notice the deer was still ALIVE! I put another arrow in him from 5 yds. and that was the end of it. The first arrow had penetrated his left shoulder blade and stuck in the opposite shoulder blade. Pinning his legs. I loaded him on the fourwheeler and called everybody I had in my phone book on the way home!!!