ok guys...just outa curiousity...what happend with your FIRST ever shot at a deer with a BOW?? i made this a poll so we could keep it short and keep IDs hidden if you dont wanna admit a miss or wound in public..if youd like fill in the details...your age...number of years with a bow before that..buck/doe..how far..etc...whatever...should be a good interesting poll.

not to be critical..but for this poll i guess ill consider anything NOT a heart or lung hit to be a wound. just cant think of a better way to put it..

Remember it like it was yesterday. 10 years ago I had a doe walk by me at 15 yards.....Shot right over her back. What a bummer. Fast forward 7 years. I missed my 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th within 20 minutes.....4 different deer, by the way. Finally connected on #6, and it was a a smoke job!

Missed my first a couple weeks ago. Last friday, I redeemed myself and smoked a doe. Now I'm out for my first buck. Once you got that first one under your belt, you got all the confidence in the world.

first deer was quartering toward me and smoked it double lung .I hit it a little higher than where i was aiming but she only went 25 yards before
dropping

Put me down for a miss. Well heck, put me down for 3 misses in a couple weeks. I finally connected the last 10 minutes of my first season on a little crotchy. I then went on about a 10 year spree with only one miss. The first years were recurve hunting.

Took my first shot at a doe during my 3rd year bow hunting, smoked her good, but could not find her. I am not ashamed to say that I didnt really have any idea how to trail a wounded deer, (thought I did, but when it came right down to it, I was lost. But I have come a long way since then thanks to this place and the great guys and gals that come on here.) I did end up finding her, but it wasnt for a couple of weeks.[:@]

My first was a six point at 15 yards. I was so nervous that I jerked the shot and hit the liver. It was incapacitated but still breathing when I walked up on it. As I was reaching for my knife to finish it off, it expired on it's own.

I'm not real proud of that shot, but it was my first. I'm glad it was only 15 yards because at that short distance, even a bad shot still managed to hit a vital organ. Had it been 25 yards I probably would have hit the stomach and I might not have found it. That's why I like short shots - greater margin for error. Especially for newbies.

My first shot was my first time out bowhunting, 2 years ago.I was sitting in the tree lounge, and it's too darn comfortable and I had dozed off. Next thing I knew, I heard a crunch, looked up and had a doe coming in. When I saw her, she was only about 10 yards or so, but by the time I got my bearings and grabbed my bow, she had made it to 15 or 20. I only had one opportunity to take the shot because she would have been out of my range after that... I didn't even know if I had hit her because I didn't get a passthru, she took my arrow with her. Couldn't find any blood anywhere, my husband finally found the blood trail about 70 yards away or so. It was a good one, bubbles in the blood, so I figure I musta hit a lung. We tracked forever, and ever, and EVER and never found her.

We went back the next day too, but still no blood, it had rained overnight though, and we tried to pick up where we marked last blood, but couldn't find anything. I ended up shooting my 7 point the next week (muzzleloader)and found the arrow about 10 yards from where we were gutting him out.

I figure she died somewhere, but unfortunately, it wasn't anywhere we were at. I am not ashamed, as I took it as a learning experience, as I do every hunt. The one thing I *am* ashamed of is that the draw length on my bow at the time was too long (figured this out afterward, thanks to the idiots at Gander Mtn. measuring wrong), I had shot just fine at the range, but I guess my nerves got the best of me that time. I have since learned to stay calm and think about everything BEFORE I do it, and I harvested a button buck one week into bow season last year.

Mine was last yr so I remember it yesterday. I had 5deer walk w/in me at 30yds but no shot.... they were just behind some cover. I heard one coming so readied myself again and it came out 5yds away, walking directly towards me. It walked right beneath my stand to the trail that I had blocked.... thinking that the deer would start using the trails that were about 10yds away. It just stood there, dumbfounded. I couldn't get on her and she heard me and blasted off..... I bleated and she came back. Posing 30yds away broadside........ I MISSED. My max range then became 20yds and I smacked the next one, same stand different day. This yr 2 shots 2 kills and I was busted by a nice buck so never got a shot. Set your own limitations and have fun.[8D]

I smoked my first, a doe, walked 30 yards and fell over...made me think i knew it all, it was easy, boy have i been taught a lesson since!