RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

Wasn't a buck but a doe was standing 20 feet from my stand i was going to in the afternoon nocked an arrow stepped over 5 feet to get a clear shot and double lunged her . She ran 30 yards stopped looked back then dropped . took only a minute or two






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RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

PA rifle season this past (2006) year ..I was done by 7:15

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

about six years back, you could only take one deer in MN.Opening morning,30 minutes in harvested a 9 pt. about 120'. following year, openingmorning of season, 45 minutes in harvested another 9 pt. about 130 in. My two fastest archery seasons.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

i have never taken a deer with a bow.. so with a bow i couldnt say.. with a gun.. about 10 minutes.. and ACTUALLY i have never killed a deer at a stand after about the 30 minute mark.. have taken all of my deer within 30 minutes of being on spot.. most within 15 - 20 minutes.. tho i have seen a FEW within an hour on spot

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

My FIRST archery buck was a big 6 pt. opening morning at 8:30.
I almost didn't take the shot because he was almost straight down,
but we just bought a new home and I had a ton of things to do.
I should have waited , a nicehigh 8 came in lessthan a minute after I shot. I was still gathering my nerves. I couldn't believe it.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

30 minutes.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

This last year my brother was hunting in one of my stands hes 13 and my dad was hunting about 80 yrds away so he could keep an eye on him its only his second yr. But they over slept and went in at 9 am my brother shot a 4 pnt. buck 10 yrds from his stand in the spine droping it in its tracks and my dad had just climbed into his stand still had his bow on the ground and had yet to put his camo coat on. Fastest for me personally was about one hour.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

It's always been at least an hour. The last few deer have been within five minutes of closing light.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

My quickest was about 45 seconds... literally. I walked to where I was hunting on the ground and I set my pack down and pulled an arrow from my quiver when I heard "the crunch." Quickly there after my arrow zipped through the buck and it was game over. Pretty sweet if I do say so myself.

RE: Shortest length of time to harvest buck.
 

In 1978 or 79, I shot an 8pt no more than 10 minutes into opening day of bow season!