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What was your first kill with a bow, and what was your set up.

For me, the first small animal was rabbits and fish shot with a ben person 50lb recurve. It was in 1979. My first big animal was a doe with my 62lb 1978 herters recurve with bear fixed two blade broadhead. The old glue on type. I shot her in 1983. I shot a hog two weeks ago with that same bow. Here is the old girl. I refinished her last year, but she is still a shooter. I wish I had that old pearson. My brother lost it back in 1986. Im still made about it. My first compound kill was in 1986 with a black bear. The loudest bow you will ever shoot. We called it the cricket. You had to shoot def deer with it.:D

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First was a 6pt 16" wide... In fall of '01

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My first was a stingray killed off of Wildcat Point on the northern tip of Chincoteague island, VA with a 40lb Bear Black Bear Recurve when I was around the age of 12.

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Cool, was that the black bear conversion. a warf bow I believe it is called. Where you put the recurve limbs on the old black bear riser. I hear that is a great shooting combo. I wish I had my old black bear so I could build one.

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My firstkill with a bowwasa button buck, double lung, 10yds, he ran 50yds. Shot him in 1995 was a junior in high school. Shot him with a 1993 PSE Polaris Express...still one of the best tasting deer i ever ate.

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My very first kill was a grey squirrel, shot in the head at 30 yards w/ an old XI Legend. It was a luck shot, no doubt. Shoot, at that point in my "career" I hadn't even taken a deer w/ a bow......Hmmm....glad I've rectified that.

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1996, I had just turned 16 when I shot a small doe at 15 yards, double-lunged her and she only made it 50 yards before piling up.

If only they were all that easy! :D

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First was a doe last year, 35 yard spine shot, next day shot another doe as she was sniffing the gut pile! Double lung, she ran 25 yards. Then killed my first bow buck 4 weeks later. What a way to start!!! All were shot with a Bear Whitetail II bow. They were all shot in Maryland before someone gets excited about the number of doe I shot! LOL

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My first kill with a bow was a 6 point buck last year in the first 2 hrs of my second season at 30 yards with my 35# seneca.

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We actually used to go into our neighbors trees/brush and cut us down a nice sized branch and make our own bows. Then we made arrows out of dowels and just sharpened the ends on the concrete. I killed a few rabbits with that setup. It was pretty fun. They only lasted about a week maybe more depending on how far you pulled them back and how long you held them.

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1968, Indian archery recurve, 35#, cedar arrows w/ bear -sharpen with a file- broadheads. 15 yard running shot. I was 12.

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Heres mine, 1st living thing I ever shot at with archery gear, it was last year.

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6 pointer the first 45 minutes in the stand. Sure hasn't been that easy
since.

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No Burnie it is a regular 70's era Bear Black Bear Recurve. I was wrong about the lbs. it is actually 45lbs@28". I still own it. It is pretty scratched up and lots of the finish is worn off from being thrown in the bottom of many boats and thrown in the water while bowfishing for shark and stingrays. Here she is.

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A boar hog last year. 65#. It was a double lung pass through. I was still hunting with an Alpine Impact X-treme. That is now my wifes bow. I changed the limbs from 60-70# to 40-50#. I have since killed 3 deer and another dozen hogs and 1 'yote. I was 44 years old at the time I made my 1st bow kill so, yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks!

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1990, I was 17 years old killed an 8 pt. buck that was harassing a good friend of mines pet does. Used a Martin Lynx buck scored 138 P&Y. From that moment I was addicted, never gun hunted for deer again.

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GregH......That's a great photo. I'd love to sit around your camp and listen to stories, sometime.

My first bowkill was the buck in my avatar......Sept. 30th of this year. I've since taken a Piebald BB and a doe, yesterday. I've been blessed, this season.

Jeff

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My first was a 6 point I shot last Friday. 25 yards after sitting in my stand less then 20 minutes.

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100# doe w/ Hoyt Vipertec. Sure was good eating!

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122 pound doe, first night ever bowhunting. Missed a nice 6pt about 20 minutes before nailing her...

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Here is my first bowkill. I was in 8th grade.

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SMALLBULL MOOSE ABOUT 24 INCHES WIDE,
1980 PSE ? MODEL BRACKET BOW 2117 ARROWS AND ROCKY MTN RAZOR BROADHEADS
HAD TRIED AS TEENAGER IN PA AND LATER HALF HEARTEDLY ONE SEASON IN NE WHEN STATIONED THERE.

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just the other day i shot a button buck. I am happy i shot my first deer with bow but i wish it was a doe instead of a button buck.

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Now that is an awsome pic Greg.

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119" whitetail
pse spyder s4
PSE sight
Easton 2117's
100 grn thunderheads
October 21 2001

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Nice old bow. Does it still shoot? I just love the old bows.

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A doe at age 13 with a shakespeare recurve.

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What was my first?? Well, the year was 1978, I was 16 and it was summer, her name was Chrissy .... lol

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As a matter of fact Burnie it does. I managed to straighten out the limbs when I got it off of my dad earlier this year, She's just not all that pretty with all the scratches and finish worn off of her. My dad bought it in the mid 70's sometime. It has killed a lot of stingrays over the years. I also have a 46# 1968 Bear Kodiak Magnum that my dad picked up at a yard sale for like 15 bucks that had been painted all black. We used to use that for Stingray hunting also. Until last year I decided to see if I could clean the paint off of it and see what was underneath. Well it turned out to be beautiful underneath. And to think that Kodiak Magnum got the same abuse as the Bear Black Bear. The only thing that saved the finish was that black paint. I wish I knew who he bought it off of, because I want to thank that guy for painting that bow black and saving the finish.

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1997, shot a doe with my used Golden Eagle, with an overdraw. 2018 easton arrows and muzzy 100gr 3 blade heads. That was my 10th year of bowhunting before I killed one, talk about getting the monkey off your back lol.

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PA Hardwoods
Have you considered refinishing it? I refinished my 1978 Herters last year and it came out great. I carefully removed the old finish with sand paper, being real careful not to get into the laminate, and resprayed it with Minwax helmans laquire. It made a world of difference. Ive hunted with that bow most of this season.

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I shot this spike last year to be my first bowkill deer. I used my Bowtech Mightymite. Before this one I took 2 hogs in Texas. Since then i have taken 2 more deer with it.

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My first bow kill was this year. I killed a 150 pound doe. I shot it at 20 yards with my Browning Rage One set at 60 pounds and I was using Thunderhead broadheads. I double lunged her and she went like 80 yards and died in minutes. She dropped no blood and I just went to where I last saw her.

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Here's my first post about my first kill. Been bowhunting for 6 years and it took3 years of bowhuntingto shot a spike at 35 yards, double lung and liver (quartering away). This was also my first year of deer camp.

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Burnie the thought did cross my mind of refinishing it. It is just one of the 5 recurves I own. (Chek-Mate Hunter II, Bear Black Bear, Bear Kodiak Magnum, Locksley Puma(This was my grandfathers) and the bow that started me down the archery path, a Ben Pearson Super Jet that was my dads when he was a kid.) It will probably always be used for bowfishing. That may be a winter project this year. The one that I love to shoot is my Chek-Mate Hunter II. That is my baby! Probably followed by the Kodiak Magnum.

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A check mate is an awsome bow.

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My first was a doe 4-5 years ago with an old Pearson Buckmaster (bushmaster) not sure on the name. I wasn't into bowhunting that much back then.

I'm in love now though. I have taken 5 deer with a bow in my hunting career so far.

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I believe that would be a bushmaster. I had two back in the 80s. In the mid 80s person made a round wheel version and a double cam version. Both were decent bows for the time. I shot a few animals with a bushmaster.

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I think it was '92. A five point with an old Whitetail II an older gentleman had loaned me to see if archery would interest me. I returned the bow to him after killing that deer and went and ordered my own bow. That Whitetail II was a nightmare to tune and I couldn't get it to group better than 6" but it got the job done.

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My 1st year of Bowhunting I took some Rabbits (1956) & 2 years later (1958) took my 1st Deer (Doe) with a 45# Eddings Recurve & wood arrows & MA3 blade. 35 yard shot-double lung & she went 30 yards.
This is the ANNIVERSAY of my FIFTIETH year of Bowhunting.
I took a hog in Oklahoma earlier this year & this is my 1st Deer in Iowa on one of my antlerless tags (Nov. 12th) Me & my 2 youngest girls.. I have traveled many states & Canada Bowhunting & have been blessed with a great variety-Whitetail, Mule Deer, Elk, Caribou, Black Bears, Wild Hogs, Rams, & a few Exotic Deer plus a Buffalo