How many years to get to 20?
 

I know a lot of you guys have taken a number of deer. How many years did it take you to reach the 10 mark? 20?

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5 to the ten mark so far.

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I'll let you know.;)

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With this states unlimited Doe tags, it certainly didn't take long to add up the numbers. Those numbers canbe put on the board aftera good season of "product testing" ;):D

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It'll be a while for me, unless Washington decides to up our limit.

But its like I always tell my friend when he complains that I don't "get enough chicks;"

I prefer quality over quantity. ;)

:D

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Don't worry, Wash. I understand location has a lot to do with how quickly hunters reach those numbers.

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I need to make a trip back east and see about whacking some does one of these years.

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You can shoot all you want, here.....and you have an invitation.;)

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Let me do the math:

3 years w/bow - 1 deer (buck)
If they let me shoot does I'm confident it would be 3deer/3years.

So,
current laws 20 deer will take 60years (a bit less as I learn the game)
with doe tags I'm still looking at over a decade[:@]

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Still sittin at 0 with the bow...I think I am too picky...I am just gonna lay it to em this year;)

With gun I don't know how many deer I have killed in the 10 years I have hunted....I suppose around 12 or so..the first 2 years I hunted I didnt get anything, and I have gotten 2 or 3 a couple years, and last year I got skunked again. After shooting my big buck, I thought for sure if I just waited I could get a shot at another whopper.....didn't ever happen. And with my gun getting stolen 1 week before season, I didn't get used to my new shotgun by the time season rolled around so I missed the 3 shots I did take on does.

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It took me 5 years to kill my first ten deer.

That was before i started thinning the herd. I plan on taking around 10 deer this fall.

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For me,

1 year hunting with a bow = 1 deer (not to bad i guess :))

6 years hunting with a gun = 1 deer (not pround of that [:@])

In my area of Ohio, i can only kill 2 deer. If i got down south i can kill an adittional 1 more. Only 1 may be a buck, and if i want to kill more than 3 i have to go to aurban area.

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7 years for the 1st 10, 12 years to get to 20.

I have opportunities to shoot more but 3 or 4 per year is about right for my family. Anything above that I give away.

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I have 11 Grandchildern and cant remember their full names all the time, this question makes my head hurt!

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11 seasons to get to 12 with a bow.

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I'd have to check my records to see how long the 1st10 took me. But the last 10 only took 2 years:D
For a long time we were only allowed 1 deer/year. But now I'm up to unlimited as long as I keep buying the tags.

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I average betweenthree to five deerper year and about twenty critters overall (Last year I hit 36. I really think it had a lot to do with the Enigma camo. Being exposed to the woods and yet invisible to wildlife made a huge difference. At this point, it's just a theory. But I think this camo is incredible. I look forward to gathering more solid evidence throughout '07. Results pending...)

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Geez well since I mainly hunted PA (rifle) only, when I started and there was a1Buck a year limit. It took me 16 years to get 10. Then I hunted a couple other States and seasons and got to 20 in 22 years.

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If i remembercorrectly 6 yrs, (during rifle and muz. seasons)
but you have to look at variables like season length, bag limits, management practices, etc.
as it will likely depend on that also.

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Sorry for the lack of clarity.....but I'm mainly just interested in Bowkills. Nothing against gun kills ....I'm just not a gun hunter.

Sorry, again.

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I think I reached the 10 mark by age 12. So that woulda been about 4 years.

Honestly I couldnt tell you how long it took me to get to 20, probably another 4 years. I do alot of management hunting locally so its not uncommon for me to kill 3 does in a 1/2 hour.

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One season I reached 12. Of course in my county I can bag 3 nannies a day for all of archery and muzzle loader season without any special tags.

I gave most of them to a nearby "soup kitchen" for the homeless and poor, they were very appreciative.

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OK-I have my log
9 years to get my 1st 10 @ 1 buck 1 doe per year limit.
Over the next 4 years I killed 12. So that's 13 years to reach 22.

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It took me 6 years to get 10 with a bow.

It took 10 years to get 20 with a bow.

Hunted 2 states, West "By God" Virginia and my home state of Pennsylvania

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I'm talking bowhunting only, Ed.;)

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Delete....Wrong thread :eek:

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Well in the beginning for us old timers it was a one tag deal... so it took almost 10 years. I say almost because I sneaked in a couple out of state hunts. It's only been the past15 years or so we could take multiple deer. Now depending on where you live.... 10 can be done real quick if you just try to chalk up some numbers. Take Len in Maryland for example. He's totally a meat first/ horns second. He has friends, friends with special diets etc etc that love deer meat and can't hunt. For the past 3 or 4 yearsLen typically shoots 15-20 a year with the bow. I was personnally on the dragging end of one of his forays where he decided to shoot a couple bucks and a big fat doe. That was 3 in about 25 seconds. LOL I would have had Vietnam flashbacks if I had to reload that fast.:)

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im at 10. but they are all rifle kills. only 2 buck. confident i could be over 20...if i wanted to whipe out all the doe..and take shots on bucks that i wasnt totally sure were legal etc etc...

i aint afraid to eat tag soup..i think 2 years of my 8 years i didnt take any deer....one being last year. so in 6 seasons i took 10 deer and could have taken many more. im starting to change from being a deer hunter to being a bit more selective. my doe kills now will only be bow and flintlock only. no more shooting them with the rifle. just lost the flame...antlers arent the reason i hunt...but they sure look good on the wall. thats what im after.

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I've been hunting with a bow for 22 years, and haven't hit the 10 mark(9). In Minnesota you could only shoot one with a bow or a gun until a few years ago, so I always went for the big boys with my bow, and if I failed I filled the freezer with my gun! So8 out of the9, I've shot with my bow,were mature deer, the 9th(a doe)I shot last year in CT! Ive never shot more than 2 deer a year(5 times)and in 27 total years of deer hunting I've shot 29 deer!! I've only been skunked 3 times since I started deerhunting! When I was 12, 13, and 22!! I actually hunted the last weekend of rifle season when I was 10 and 11, but that was just following my dad around, so I don't really count those years!

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It took about 10 years for me to reach 20 with a bow--and I would say about 2-1 does to bucks. I have maintained that ratio pretty closely since then as well, with about the same average.

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in WV i can take 3 deer during bow season. I hunt with bow during rifle as well, and I'm up to 32 deer in 11 years.

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I can’t say that I have been keeping count.

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I'm at 10 deer after pursuing them off an on since 1966.Kinda picky - don't like to shoot does . . . or lessthan maturebucks for that matter.For elk, though, I killed my 34th this year :).

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RESPECT!!!!;)

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25 in 7 years with the bow.

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I've got 3 in 5 years.

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Ive been hunting for 28 years now and have shot 30 with my bow...

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If we are counting does, then this past season I shot my tenth deer in seven full seasons of hunting.6 of which have been bucks. I didn't practice great management until about three years ago when I promised myself to take at least one doe per buck. Last year I blanked on does for some reason I couldn't connect. Two shots on does and two misses. I guess better miss on the does than the buck I connected on. In my defense (excuses) I hit a branch on one and was attempting at using traditional gear on the second. I have great respect for traditional archers these days.

Kel

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I'd say once I broke the code. 3 seasons for 10 and I guess 2 more after that till I killed 20... I was averaging around 5-9 deer a year just with the bow then add another 1 or 2 with the rifle then another 1 or 2 with the muzzle loader... Some years I've killed 9 or 10 deer in a season... Most of these being does...

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This will be my 26th season after starting at age 15. I took my first deer with a bow at age 23 so in the last 17 seasons I've taken roughly 25 deer with my bow. Not large numbers but I'm betting I can remeber every single one of them.