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RE: Your first deer ever....
Congratulations To your wife DOG!
My first deer was about a 70 lb fawn. It was 20 years ago now. At the time we weren't allowed to hunt until we were 15 and I had been introduced to archery yet! We did drives with the shotguns. It was about the 3rd day into the hunt and we started a drive which began at the edge of a gas line right Of way. I took about three steps into the long grass and up jumped a deer to which looked to me as a doe wthe way it jumped. I pulled the shotgun up and hit it with the SSG out of my Ithaca model 37. It happened to be a button buck. To this day I still remember the fever set in while sitting there AL |
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good job. I was 17 hunting with some friends during a drive when a big doe ran past at full speed ,I shouldered my 30-30 marlin and dropped in her tracks. I felt so sorry for her at the time, 20 years later I took it up again and busted 3 last year and the same feeling came back. I have gotten 2 with a bow this year and the largest buck ever 9 points with a 17 inch spread, my wife videoed him in the back yard and 4 days later I got him 1 mile from the house, after seeing him in real life (video) and then seeing him under my stand all the emotions came back, some times I wish I could keep them as pets so I can look at them anytime with out killing them . but they do taste good..
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My first deer was 3 years ago when i was 12 years old. I shot a 130 pound doe with my little remington youth 20 gauge shotgun.
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Mine too was off a drive. A small doe, missed the first shot at her standing 40 yds away. She came running at me to my left and I flattened her with the next shot. Go figure. That was 1986.
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I started out at 16 with a 16 gage bolt action shot gun(still have it) in the adirondacks of ny. never did see any deer.moved to pa and a friend of mine got me started with bow hunting. hunted for 3 years and saw tons of deer. just screwed up too many hunts to get one.
on my very last day to hunt in pa. before moving back to the adirondacks, i went out in the afternoon to my favrite oak tree,but there was no sign. i looked for a while and settled for a tree 50 yds away. now the fun began! i heard a small dog barking for about 20 min.it didn't sound right and it was comming from where i thought the deer would come out.i thought it may have been cought in a trap.so i went over to help it.boy did he take off running and yipping when this camo thing came at him!!! just before dark ,i heard this weird sound. turn out its a hot air baloon right over me and comming down fast. i could see the ladies watch on her wrist, they were that low. they landed two feilds away. my thoughts were , no deer today. but i saw a doe and a fawn comming my way.than an 8 pt commes in as the boss and scares the two away.he comes in so i draw , he sees me and takes off to my left.well some how i shoot through a paper plate size hole in the brush and nail him throgh the heart! 8 pt 205#, first deer! still haven't topped it but its fu trying. |
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It was in 1991 and I was 28 years old. It was my first time deer hunting ever. My father-in-law had decided that it was way too windy and we decided to pack it in for the morning and try our luck with the scheduled diminshing winds in the afternoon. We were almost out of the woods when he whispered "there's a buck." It was a small 6 pointer. I stood there and watched him take aim. He shot and we watched the buck wobble - it was like the deer was dizzy. <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle> He shot again and the deer took off running straight into the woods about 30 yeards away. I decided that he shot enough so I lifted my 12 guage shotgun and pulled the trigger. The deer literally did a summersault. I shot him through the neck. <img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>Later we understood why the deer wobbled. My father-in-law completely shot off one side of the deer's antlers at the base of the head. It must have felt like someone hit it in the head with a sledgehammer.
My absolute favorite time was when I got my first bow kill in 1996. I've been hooked ever since. Deer hunting is a lot of fun with a gun - make no mistake about it. But it doesn't give me the thrill like bow hunting. To me that's deer hunting. |
RE: Your first deer ever....
Congratulations to your wife on her first deer, I hope she gets more opportunities in the future. Here's my first:
My first one was a six point. Walking into the woods toward my stand to hunt the afternoon I catch movement in time to watch the rear end of a deer going down to bed. He was only 30-35 yards away then, so I moved in slowly with just a slight breeze rustling the leaves on the trees. At <15 yards I could see antlers and his head was moving side to side. A basket 3x3. As he began to stand, I draw. He spins around and stops looking directly at me and I let the arrow fly. Enters just right of where his neck joined the shoulder and disappeared. He ran just of to my left and crashed through brush for about 5 seconds then silence. I looked at my dads' old Bear Thunderbird recurve and thought of all the arrows I had shot during the past year to get ready for just this experience. I wondered if the hit was good, I had never been in this situation before. It all happened so fast once he stood, I didn't get nervous. But then the reality set in and I began shaking so bad I had to sit down for fear of falling off my feet. I sat for a while, I don't know how long, just trying to get a handle on things. I get up and go to where he was standing. About ten feet behind where his back legs had been laid my arrow. Covered in blood and some brownish-green stuff and some pieces of corn. I begin walking his path watching his tracks, broken brush and after about 20-30 steps begin seeing blood splattered on the brush, ground and sapplings with some blood as high as waist level. After another 60-70 yards I look up to see him down, watched for signs of him breathing and approached with nervous fear. When I prodded him with a nocked arrow and he didn't move, all I could do was kneel beside him and stare. I had seen many deer that season in the woods but most were does and bucks were the only legal deer for harvest. Well I ramble on, but suffice it to say - you never forget the first one. Shoot often - Hunt always |
RE: Your first deer ever....
I started hunting when I was 13 years old and hunting with a barrowed 20 ga. stevens single shot. I was living with my dad in NC at the time and had to go to Georgia to see my mom and step-dad to go hunting. (there wasn't anywhere close to hunt in NC). So I only had a few days to hunt that first year and never saw a deer. The next year my step-dad bought me my first gun, a 30-30 marlin. It was a cannon to me at the time. Me and him hunted a large field edge for two days before I saw a deer that was in range, a little buck that had a mainframe fork horn on one side and a spike on the other. His rack had been all messed up while in velvet and he had 6 points in all. (little tiny deformed points). He stepped out right at 50 yards so I took aim and shot hitting the deer in the spine and dropped him in his tracks. My second deer was my first one with a bow. I little 60 pound doe. I was shooting a 55# compound with fingers and got her at 15 yards. I was so happy with both of them I almost cried.
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last day in buck season my first year...saturday so i being a junior could take a doe...my dad had to work so he asked a buddy if he wanted to take me and he did...driving up the guys driveway that was letting us hunt we seen a buck and a few other deer..the buck was a MONSTER...looked liek a big 12 or so..get ot the spot and set up...about 30 mins later a small yearling doe walked down and im not up and ready...she walks within 12 yds of us and runs off after catching a wind...i got my gun up and sat ready for the rest of the time...i hear something walking down the hill i was watching..figured it was the tukeys we were listening to or the tree rat i was watching play around...i hear a snort..didnt see the deer yet the guy was like devin! a deer! she goes behind a big oak i take the saftey off and she turns around..i didnt know what to do so i was like "should i shoot!" and as soon as i hear the y part of yes i cracked one off with the winchester 88 in 308...watching as the bullet hit i watched her do a flip sideways in the air! it was wild..her legs were n the opposite side of the hill too...i was totally calm until the second i seen her on the ground after the flip..i lost it..i was breathing sooo hard and shaking like a leaf..we sat there for like 5 minutes so i didnt fall or anything on the way over..another deer came running down the same trail and kept running right by her..looked like a yearling doe..right before i went nuts i seen like 25 turkeys take to wind and about 15-20 deer running off...i wonder if i woulda waited if the monster buck would came down..but im still happy...later in the paper or maybe the next year a nice 16pt was shot in the same town i took the doe...im willing to bet its the same deer i seen!...and the guy was going to take me to another spot..and shot on that day was a nice buck in the same area...a nice 12pt i think...im still happy with my nice mature doe!
kinda wish i coulda shared the thrill with my dad...but he gto to see the second deer i took and alots of my firsts...that was definently the biggest rush ive ever had...  |
RE: Your first deer ever....
My first Deer was last year after three years of bowhunting. IT was a 16 pointer i took with a bow at 40 yards. I was 15
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Wow! Good work Jag. What a beautiful animal.
Mine was a 6 point buck taken with a bow at 39 yards. I had practiced at that distance, during the preseason for about four months, had placed ribbons at 20, 30 and 40 yards, and the buck was calm, standing just near the 40 yard ribbon. He went about 40 yards. |
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It was the last day of my first year of my hunting. A doe and a fawn came up and my dad missed the doe so I swung around and shot the fawn with a .222. I now use a 30-06. That was so exciting, I'm hooked for life.
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My first deer was when i was 12 years old. I was at deer camp with the guys for the first time. After a first day with no luck we went to the town's " BIG BUCK CONTEST" and after seeing other youths my age with buck i was determined to get one the next day . I woke up just at day break , shook my dad and told him to get up . I quickly threw on my camo , grabbed my browning A bolt .270 and off we went. I got up to the 3rd or 4th bench on the mountain and sat down. 5 or 10 minutes later i heard BOOM!!!!! and got ready. Soon after 3 doe ( or what i thought were doe ) came up and bedded down. i got up to peek over the noll at them and maye get a shot when my dad said " Joe do you want a spike "? i quickly said heck yea and shouldered my gun to see a deer laying down . It took me 5 shots to get him down , as i missed at him bedded down with the first 4 . When he stod up i cracked him in the head . I guess i never took the cross hairs off his head . Needless to say my first was a spike.
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My first deer was 8 years ago, when I was 12. At 7 a.m. on opening day my dad saw a small doe, and I proceeded to miss with 4 shots out of my 20 gauge, and dropped her with my last shot. It was real cool because I got my picture on the front page of the local paper. My first bow kill was when I was 16, a nice mature doe and 31 yards. Even though I have shot 8 deer, I still get very nervous when I get a shot. That's the real thrill in hunting.
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Hey congrat's to your wife,My first deer was a spike I was 12 and bow hunting with my grandma,we had set up a ground blind in a stand of pine's the spike came in not even 15 minute's after we sat down,she handed me the bow and asked if i would like to try the shot,I did my grandma's teaching's justice and hit the spike behind the shoulder and it ran off 20 yard's and fell over dead,I still have the photo and the antler's and that was over 28 years ago
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The first time i ever went i was fortunate enough to take a ten pointer within about three hours, Everybody told me i would shoot the first deer that walked by and i said you just watch i wont shoot nothing under 15 inches and to this day that 15 inch ten point has been my smallest buck lol i guess i like getting even
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My first deer was taken when I was 14. I had just seen a buck and missed an opportunity to get a shot as he ran over the hill. When I got over the crest of the hill, there was a buck just standing up from being bedding down in a blowdown. I pulled up and squeezed the trigger hitting him in the neck and dropping him on the spot. He was a 4 point. 3 on the right and a single 12" spike running down the side of his head on the left. Very odd looking but very cool. That was 16 years ago, but still remember every detail.
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i dont think i will forget my first deer, and i know i havent already because its the only one ive gotten so far and it only happened sunday. hunting is one intense sport, people that dont hunt just will never know that anticipation, wear start shaking a little. its great
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I remember it like it was yesterday. I had hunted about 3 years and never gotten anything. Then finally one winter day at 7:30 am, I got a shot at a big doe(with my marlin .30-30). I hit her low...had to trail her a long ways. I kept jumping her and couldn't get a shot. She was heading down the mountain. After a couple hours of following her, I caught up with her and finished her off. Wow...was I excited!!! ...until I realized I had no idea where I was other than WAY down the mountain. After field dressing her...I began the drag...all I knew was I had to go uphill. I started uphill and eventually ran into a logging road that I knew went to the top. Well, after 8....yes 8, long hours of dragging....I ended up within 200 yards of the truck...and some guys came and finished the drag for me. It was 5:30 pm. I was 17, she weighed 100 lbs...and I earned her with all I had....I was just about dead.
I learned quite a few things that day <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> and THANK GOD for the tiny bit of snow on the ground that I used to track her with, and to eat while dragging her. Been hooked ever since..<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> |
RE: Your first deer ever....
My first deer was a typical PA 5 point taken 21 years ago when I was 14 with an open sight 30-30.........
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