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Old 08-24-2004 | 10:52 AM
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Just curious...How long afer you started bowhunting did it take for you to harvest your first buck? I am new to the sport this season (I have gun hunted before) and was just curious...
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:10 AM
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Got shut out my first year and a half...the first one is sweet though. Good luck to ya!
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:18 AM
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Got 2 my first year..... I believe I was 16. My standards werent high then. I think one was a fork, the other a 6. Only been one year I didnt harvest one. I had many opportunites that year but passed up dozens of bucks. I guess a lot depends on your hunting area. We have a ton of deer here in the upper peninsula of MI but they arent bruisers that you would find in other states. A huge buck here is 130 class.
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:20 AM
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first year, but i went through like 2 dozen arrows...... i remember my first bow kill like it was yesterday. It was a big fat doe by her self and i was sitting in a creek bed with my bow in hand and here she come about 40yds away, i drew back and let her fly..............it dropped right beneath her belly!! She just looked down and sniffed my arrow!!! So i knocked another one and aimed a lil higher, and WHACK...........hit her hard and good behind the foreleg, she dropped right behind me when she ran. Great hunt for a doe!
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:25 AM
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My first kill was a buck, I hunted 1 season before that and missed 2 bucks.
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:26 AM
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Doe the first year, buck the second.
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:28 AM
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Second year and counting for me, hopefully i atleast get an opportunity for a shot this year.
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Old 08-24-2004 | 11:47 AM
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I didn't get mine until my third year but it was a doozy. My first two years I shot does early. I could only shoot 1 deer a year and I didn't matter to me if it was a buck or a doe. Brown was down back then
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Old 08-24-2004 | 12:08 PM
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It took two seasons for me. I had several misses those first two years, it really drove home the need to practice,practice,practice.
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Old 08-24-2004 | 12:55 PM
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My third season I arrowed a button. That was my first bowkill and one I'll never forget. Ever since then I've one gone one year where I didn't shoot anything and the bucks have come every year for the past 5. Multiple does in most years too.
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