whats your best advice for a beginner
09-02-2004, 12:14 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fairfield Ohio USA
Posts: 341
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
My best advise...as mentioned NUMEROUS times...PRACTICE!!!!! You should practice enough to where everything is 2nd nature when shooting. Make sure your equipment is properly tuned, waxed, silenced, etc... Someone mentioned keeping your shooting distances short. That is a great idea. If you can be consistent at 10-25 yards, you can kill a deer in the woods. There is no need to shoot at 50-60 yards right now. Save that for a couple of years down the road. Welcome to the greatest sport ever......DEER HUNTING!!!!!! Good luck.
09-02-2004, 12:42 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Houston, Texas. Member since 04/05/2
Posts: 766
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
Other than the obvious of course...PRACTICE...I would really stress the importance of preparing for the Bowhunter,s "Quickening"...The rush of adrenaline rushing through you at the sight of seeing a deer at 20 yards or less. prepare your mind for it and controll your breathing...easier said than done 
I lost what should have been my first three deer to "Buck Fever"
I lost what should have been my first three deer to "Buck Fever"
09-02-2004, 03:14 PM
#14
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,862
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
Learn the realities of bowhunting whatever game you intend to hunt, the actual tools that are necessary not just want you want, and put the emphasis on what you consider is the priority for you.
09-02-2004, 04:05 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 1,672
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
if possible i would try to practice from an elevated postition. like a roof or from a ladder. either way practice as much as you can before the season.
09-02-2004, 06:31 PM
#18
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: mont belvieu,texas
Posts: 106
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
Find a buddy,get involved in 3d shoots and practice.By going and watching guys shoot you will learn alot,you will also probably make some lifelong friends.Prepare for failure so you wont give up, you may not get a deer for several years and if you do,keep doing what you did,cuz something went right.
09-02-2004, 07:30 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
Posts: 2,051
RE: whats your best advice for a beginner
IMO the best advice I can give you is follow the K.I.S.S. princable . (keep it simple stupid) To much tec can make bow hunting no fun .