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What make of bow did you kill your first deer with? or What was your favorite hunting bow (pre single cam revolution.

Every year I think back on all the bows that I have owned and one keeps sticking out in my mind. It was a HoytPro Force Cam in the tan camo. It was smooth by standards of the day and deadly accurate. I sold it to keep up with the jones's. I took my first doe with it and hindsight being what it is I wish I would have saved that one bow.

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My first deer was killed by a Browning Timber wolf, that was back when browning was still browning not PSE. If i remember correctly easton alluminum arrows, rocky mountain heads and i was pulling about 50 lbs. I was 12.

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I killed my first deer with a bow when i was 14 with a Golden Eeagle Sparrowhawk 50# 29"draw(i have long arms thats why i am pitchin' in college):DEaston 2213 arrow tipped with a 100gr. Thunderhead. It was a great day!:)

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My first bow kill was with a Bear Polar LTD. I was shooting instinctively with fingers in the mid '70s, it was a small doe in Bradford Co. Pa. I remember like it was yesterday.:)

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Mathews Ultra Max

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bowtech liberty vft...last fall

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Congrates Uncballers45

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Jennings Fork Lighting many moons ago

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Going way back now, 1st bow- BEAR Whitetail ll,Easton aluminum arrows, razorback broadheadswas so disgusted with it I threw it rightin the swamp.Next was a BROWNING XCaliber ll(wooden) Beeman arrows, anderson broadheads. I killed plenty of deer with it, but lost plenty too. The wooden Browningversion was far too noisy. The anderson broadheads did major damage to deer, but do to their size, they flew aweful.

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Man Pigiron, that sure sounds like a 70's or early 80's set up to me lol.

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Same bow as pigiron, that old bear whitetail 2. I think it was in 1988. It was a doe at 20 yards.
killed 2 others with that bow before getting a Hoyt.
DW

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A 1964 Shakespear bow, with a wooden arrow and a crimped on "Hilbrew" broadhead.

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Yes it was, early 80's. My friends and I didn't know what the hellwe were doing. We would shoot into a pile of gravel, then wonderwhy we couldn't shoot strait. Wish I could re-live those days. I'd a done a few things different. One thing i do missare my tree climbers, I had a pair from the phone co., they would use-em to climb telephone poles. I could shimmy up any tree in seconds. I'd wear them things to school if they'd let me :D

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PSE Pulsar express

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Old Bear Tigercat. Old pair of my BDUs and a pair of tree climbers and a wooden tree stand.

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Wow, First bow..My Dad gave me his old Allen Compound for Christmas 1973, shot it for3 years before he would let me go in the woods with it, killed my first deer that year..:)

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Browning Bushmaster.
About 1975.

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Browning Mirage Hunter dual cam.

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hope to get my first this year with my brownin micro adrenaline

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Hoyt Ram Hunter.[:o]

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Last year isnt too hard to recall but I was using a Bowtech Mighty Mite.

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HCA sky force dual cam with 2315 easton arrow and 125 gr 3 blade muzzy.

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PSE Spirit - 1990'ish. Here's a picture of the bow - mine wasn't setup quite so nice - I had the Gamegetter II arrows, which were a little more ghetto than the XX75's pictured. My release was also ghetto fabulous - Bear Crackshot, if my memory is right - little T Handled job with a thumb button. My broadheads were those el-cheapo Bear ones that were $1.29 each. Mine didn't have a stabilizer either. Star Hunter rest instead of the TM shown. I actually got a lot of deer with that little bow. Mine maxxed out at 60 pounds and had the tube-style peep.

Memories....

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ghetto, dont make me get out my clearwater mag..I'll showyaghetto..


still have it, killed my first, elk, deer and bear with it.

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A 1966 model Indian Archery Recurve, cedar shafts and a bear (sharpen with a file) broadhead.6 point buck taken in 1968.

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I had a Bear Whitetail Hunter, XX75's. No sights, shot with fingers and took a basket 6 my first year with it. Only deer taken at camp that year and all the grown, experienced hunters were mad :D. That was 1985.

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Bear Whitetail .... yaknow, 4 wheels on her, aluminuim arrows, bear broadheads, shot fingers ... prolly about 120 fps .... a real smoker! [8D]

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1980's ? It was with my new bow at that time a Bear/Jennings bow Bear Bruin and I still hunt with it today. I figure if it works don't fix it. As i have enjoyed some great sucess with my bow.

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First 4 deer killed with a Mathews Switchback......last Fall.....and the last one with my '07 Allegiance.

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Browning whitetail II or something like that

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I think you meant BEAR Whitetail ll, I started with the same bow.(80's) ;)

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Blackhawk Bee recurve and Microflite fiberglass arrows tipped with a Bear razorhead. And, yeah, it was a few years ago;)

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a doe at 22 yards with my PSE and muzzy's

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My first deer, a yearling that was delicious, was killed with an XI Myles Keller drawing 53#. I ended up killing 14 deer with that bow before I got rid of it. Should have NEVER sold it..I miss that bow alot!

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Got the first with an Indian stalker

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I had a recurve and a Whitetail II hand-me-down, but my first deer came with the PSE Spirit that I posted a picture of on Page 3.First deer wasfawn doe at about 20 yards in 90 or 91. The next year,91 or 92I think, I got this spike. Sorry about the graphic pic - I had to cut its throat. Looking back, I totally had no idea what I was doing out there - just huntin'. I was happier than a pig in mud with that deer.

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Right-on man, sounds like your telling my story. Had a whitetail ll, first buck was a spike.(I didn't have to gaff his throat though, but you gotta do what you gotta do) :D

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Man this puts a smile on my face and a tear in my I. In 1988 I had just started a new job and one of my future best friends offered to let me hunt his farm. First day there I was wearing old Air Force jungle camo and grunted a spike in at first light and drove a Thunderhead 125 on a Easton XX75 out of my Clearwater Power Mag (or as I call it now Powerless Mag) through the deer jaw and down through it neck. Not pretty but he only ran 50 yards. I drug him to my buddies house and hung him up and went back up and grunted a 10 point into ten yards and double lunged him and he's on my wall today Sad to say that my buddy died of cancer almost two years ago but everytime that I looke at that deer head on my wall I think of that day.

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That's some serious killin for 1 day. Sounds like hell of a memory. Were those bucks your first deer?

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First deer kill, 7pt buck browning summit Easton XX75's and the thunderhead 125g 60lbs 28in dl. Shot him right in the ass. Just as I shot he turned and I hit the main artery that goes back there and he ran about 40 yrds. It was a sunday afternoon about 75 80 degrees out he was following a doe. Just like it happened yesterday. (15 years ago)