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How long have you hunted and not taken your first deer?...................2 year
What are the reasons you haven' t killed one?..........Still learing the do' s and donts
What are you going to do differently this year to be successful?.........Hunt harder
How can we help?...............Send all your deer to Cherokee and Adair counties.

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Not a lot of whitetails up here ;)
Too cheep to fly down and hunt the Milk River. :)
Quit being so cheep [:o]
An all expense paid trip to down south? :D

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Haven' t killed a deer with my bow yet. Why...this will be my first season with a bow. I' ve been practicing a lot and I' m hoping for a little beginner' s luck! ;)

How can you help? Hmmmmmmmm....the list is long but there is one thing.:D

I' m back and forth with my release...I recently switched to more of a back tension release...using a caliper release. Having a little trouble pulling the release arm when I' m at full draw....maybe I could shorten my draw length a 1/2 or so. I recently asked this question in the technical forum.

Any help for the rookie? :(

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Hehe we definetly have alot of whitetails in this area, ill get my chance soon :D good luck on your hog hunt, ive heard of that place i belive, is it archery only? what bow you shooting? Im shooting a new hoyt magnatec with cam.5, so far im in love [8D]

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Calvin and Deanna are really nice people. Im goin back in March with a group of guys that i work with at Oklahoma Archery. Tell us how your trip goes. Post pics also and ill tell yall how mine goes. We' ll see how the OK archery season turns out this year. I think we almost set the record last year in archery harvest.

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How long have you hunted and not taken your first deer? About 10yrs.
What are the reasons you haven' t killed one? Missed a few shots or picked off in my stand
What are you going to do differently this year to be successful? Practice more
How can we help? [/quote]You can' t

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Hunted w/ bow for 3 seasons (for whitetails)
hit a twig on one shot. other shot (first time out, missed over the deer). all other opportunities missed have been because I have spooked the deer.
hopefully wait until the deer has passed my stand to shoot.
you can help if you tell me when to draw my bow, other than when their head is behind a tree...


beej

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Been hunting with a bow now for going on 9 seasons. I have yet to take a shot at a deer. Closest I cam was last year. I drew on a doe, and when the bow hit the wall, the arrow popped out of the arrow rest and bounced off of the riser. All 5 deer left in a hurried manner. I think I haven' t killed a deer yet because I haven' t been putting the effort in. Last year, I hunted hard. And it showed through the deer I saw and also my closest encounter with one. This year, I' ll hunt even harder. Also, I bought a new arrow rest, a bodoodle. No more arrows popping off of the arrow rest. ;)

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Bowdacious, How is Bowsafari for hunting? I have been looking into a Hog/Exotic hunt for next spring and my group would like to know more about them.

Good hunting? looks like good prices. any info would be nice

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last year was my 6th bow season and first deer. my second year i hit a doe too far forward, hitting the shoulder blade and never recovered her. not knowing, i got right out of my stand and tried to track it. after that terrible experience, i was determined not to shoot unless it was a very good shot. last years was a 22 yrd broadside with the deer unaware of me being there, it only went 60 yrds!! i still waited in my stand a while though. i dont live close to where i hunt, and have 2 kids with all kinds of activities, so unfortunately, i only get out 10-15 days per season

what can you all do to help? give me tips on what to look for when hunting a new area. i mostly hunt public land and the area that im most familiar with is usually taken by others. i usually just look for funnel on topo maps, because that is fairly easy to pick out. my real time is getting the biggest bang for the short amount of time i spend in the woods.

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CATSKILLHUNTR, if you dont mind driving a little farther then the catskills, i have
a few stands allready set, for someone to kill a deer with the bow, the most
important thing is to brake the ice, and your welcome to hunt my back yard, if
you are confident in your shooting, you will kill a deer, and maybe even a P&Y
buck, but i woulden' t worry about that, just brake the ice, could stand to lose a few does anyhow, send me a PM,:D

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last year was my first year bow hunting....it was an experience.....the first morning, i had a nice spiked buck walk up, waited til he was behind the tree pulled back and my nock came off ...sad day, but i learned...got new nocks:Di passed on a doe and her yearling 2 days in a row...shouldn' t of, the yearling would of made it and i had no meat , i learned not to be overly ethical, meat comes first then i' ll be choosey...there was a poult that came in 9 yards away from me, i thought about it, i admit it, but there was no way, so i sat there and enjoyed her feeding around me, til she fed off.....then the one that hurts real bad.....there i was sitting in a tree that had fallen, actually i was standing...it was almost time to go and i had called Fl. Huntress and she said she' ll be heading up my way in about 30 minutes...a few minutes later i hear splash spash splash, actually startled me, i froze, it was doe and her yearling running, they get 20 yards in front of me and stop, then they walked off , looking behind em , all of a sudden i hear SPLAH SPLASH SPLASH, this beautiful creature comes walking in , stops exactly where the doe stopped and i went to pull back and i see him looking but not at me or the doe...he takes off, then Fl. WHISTLES...he saw her[:' (]and when she whistled , my heart sunk......he was a trophy, i have only seen a couple of bucks that nice personally, his rack just laid down, nice spread....i didnt get to count points because i was told not to count a buck by his rack , rather his age , just find the spot and shoot, they' ll be time after the harvest to count tines.....well that was tough, to this day i can see him crashing through the water chasing her then stopping for the perfect shot , all to be f' ed up...one of my bestest memories to date, bitter sweet for sure...well the following hunt i had this group of turkeys come in, my stand is only 6' , but camoed very well, i thought for sure i' d take one of the turkeys so i waited for the biggest one to stop and i released,my leg wiggling the whole time, lol..i tried to calm myself, and i really did, but my leg would not stop shaking.... the arrow fell about a hands width behind her...i screwed up and thought she was closer than what she was, hens are legal to take by the way, dont want to upset anyone....but i was off about 6 yards, give or take.....but i released:D and it was a clean miss, that did my heart good, i actually got the chance to release finally after all the times i should of or could of or wanted too;)and i got to put another arrow in while continued walking and feeding , but i didn' t get another shot, after missing my confindence level was gone......i' m building that up every day when i shoot, i feel that has to be the one thing you bring in the woods with you ,confindence, i truely do.......while i' m at work , me and my coworker/buddy pick things out and guess the yardage and then he takes the range finder out and checks to see who' s right ..i know i have alot of learning to do, with every hunt comes a learning experience and i know my patience and persistance will be rewarded when God feels they should be......ntilo that time, i must learn all i can , the hard way is just part of it....

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Well I hate to admitt it, but it took me forever to kill one with a bow. But in my defense, I only really bow hunted in the beginning to have an excuse for being in the woods. I was mostly scouting for rifle season. Never had a hunting bow that fit me either, cause I was using hand me downs from my dad. He never bow hunted deer, just carp fishing with a bow. Anyways, after I left home, went to school and then got a job, all the while becoming a father and husband, I forgot about bow hunting. I guess it took 14 years to get one, if you go back to the begining of my archery adventures when I first started as a kid.

Well a little over three years ago I wanted back in. So I started looking at all the new bows at a local shop. And getting feed back from you HuntingNet users. (Thats when I started on this web site) I was about ready to bust out the money for a Hoyt Viper when I went to buy it and the shop was closed down. They moved into a bigger place in the big city. I went up there but they did not have the archery dept. set up yet. So I went looking else where. I went to a place and looked at their line of bows. I got hooked on the Fred Bear Epic Extreme. I bought this one because I have always been a Bear Archery user and fan. My first bow when I was a kid was a Bear Cub. After a ton of practice and with a better knowledge of bow ethics, and tips from the experts at HuntingNet:D I trained my self to Not shoot, if I was' nt 100% sure of my shoot and ability to make it. I may have been to picky, but I think I learned alot that way. During the season I realized I needed a climbing stand. I had been hunting on the ground from the beginning. And when ever I went to draw, I usally got busted or something made the deer to not turn and present a good shoot. So after that year I decided to order a Summit Viper climbing stand. Now I was big time ready to get real serius and commit to perfecting my archery & bowhunting. Well after a few close shoot opertunities, I shot a doe late in the season and lost it in the biggest GA thicket you ever seen. I was heart broken. Of course the fine group of people at HuntingNet encouraged me not to give up. So last year, I went back and tried again. And low and behold, I shot my first deer last year, a nice doe that was the biggest deer in the world:D

I dont even know if I' m going to take a gun this year;) Only twenty some days left![:o]

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mike, that was a great story, I' m very proud of you, i would hunt with you any time, and you will see, that from here on in, things will be alot easyier, not to say
it' s gonna be a gimmi, but once you brake the ice, your confidance is going to
make all your move' s, alot more natural, hope you nail a good deer this season:D

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I am 16 and this year will be my third year hunting why haven' t i got one? [missed one shot last year i have praticed harder and bought a mathews legacy. You can help by postiong encourageing letters about your success

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10 years without a shot? Wow!! I think I' d try something different. Get out more and sit still. You' re in deer country. It really shouldn' t take that long to run into at least one stupid deer that would make a mistake. Shoot the first deer that walks up that doesn' t have spots. As someone said... break the ice and it' ll all get better. When ever I start someone in bowhunting that' s the first thing I tell them. Shoot something and then get selective. Something wrong in your hunting method I' m sure. Forget all the stinky stuff, rattling, calling etc. Scout, find some food, some trails leading from the thick stuff... set up in the transition zone near the food and you should be in business. Get off the ground and sit still. If you see a deer approaching, start planning the shot immediately. Try to figure out where he' s going to walk and position your body for the shot. When he drops his head, walks behind the tree, licks him/herself or is otherwise distracted ...draw(assuming the deer is within range). If you get nervous as the deer is coming in, just take some deep breaths, close your eyes, breath, watch for other deer.... call for help with the dragging.:D

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10 years and no deer. Well I got to hand it to you...you have sticktoittiveness like I' ve never seen. If you' re ok with just being in the woods and not filling your tags then no big deal but if it is getting old and frustrating then my two cent suggestion would be to hunt with someone who has killed deer and learn from them.

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Great advice from David.He knows alot about dragging deer from hunting with Len:D One more thing,allways pay attention to the wind.That can be tricky in hilly woods.In the am your scent will rise,and fall in the pm.Use some milkweed or cottonball fluff to watch the wind currents.Just relax and enjoy your time outdoors.It will happen.

CB

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How long? - this will be my second year bowhunting, did not get anything last year.

What will I do Differently - get out in the woods more!!!

How can you help me -- Get me more time in the woods & send some deer my way!!!:D

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Bodacious makes another good point. There' s nothing out there in the Catskills that' s going to hurt you. Do some exploring and get off the roads and main trails. Don' t worry about how you' ll get them out until you get one. Then just do it one step at a time. Carry your gear up 40 yards and set it down. Go back and get the deer. Drag him 40 yards past your gear. Get you wind walking back for the gear. If there are a lot of others hunting the area the first quarter to half mile in is dark movement country. Get beyond it in a little neck of thick stuff or or along an edge between pines and hardwoods or brush. Your area is really well populated with deer.

The " Thick Stuff" we talk about doesn' t have to be so nasty you can' t shoot. Just find an area where deer are moving through that offers just a little more cover. All it really takes is just a couple more saplings, underbrush etc. Get out of the deep gullys and on to the hillsides and ridges. Saddles are nice but the wind can be fickle.

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2 seasons(one with compound one with cross bow)
Things just aint come together for me. Got close, but havent got to shoot one.
New spots and hunting by myself. I dont have to be accompionied by an adult this year so if I have time, I can go instead of waiting for my buddy.
Tie a nice shooter up to the base of my tree;):D

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thanks for the tips bowdacious, i will definetly try the thicker stuff