Tips on getting my first deer.
11-12-2006, 06:46 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Taberg N.Y
Posts: 47
Tips on getting my first deer.
I am 17 and i am still trying to get my first deer. I have missed a spike horn about 25 yards away and a doe at about 100 yards away. what am I doing wrong!?!?!? I have been really mad latley because I can't get one, to the point where I wanna give up but I tell my self not to.
11-12-2006, 06:52 AM
#2
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: naper nebraska
Posts: 458
RE: Tips on getting my first deer.
go shoot a lot of targets so you have total conifindence that you can hit a deer mabey your guns off a little or mabey you jerk when you pull the trigger or you arnt shooting a big enough gun
11-12-2006, 08:05 AM
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
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RE: Tips on getting my first deer.
Definately go to the range. Practice will help. try shooting free hand as well as on a rest. If you can I suggest trying toshoot shots that you would be likely to take when your out in the feild.
Alsotrydifferent types of ammo for your gun. When I was just starting I used a smooth bore 12 ga. single shot H and R Shot gun, which i tried to shoot sabots out of and couldn't get any predictable shot with but then i switched to rifled slugs and they were very good in that gun. I guess my point is that different types of ammo shoot better than others out of different guns. Find what works best for your gun when at the range and practice with that.
Good Luck. Hope that helps
INDY
Alsotrydifferent types of ammo for your gun. When I was just starting I used a smooth bore 12 ga. single shot H and R Shot gun, which i tried to shoot sabots out of and couldn't get any predictable shot with but then i switched to rifled slugs and they were very good in that gun. I guess my point is that different types of ammo shoot better than others out of different guns. Find what works best for your gun when at the range and practice with that.
Good Luck. Hope that helps
INDY
11-12-2006, 08:23 AM
#8
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 159
RE: Tips on getting my first deer.
The advixe above is correct, one more tip that has helped me is that I spend a lot of time afield doing the spring/summer just observing deer. I still have my full camo, etc on and I just sit there, if have encounters as close as 10 yards!!!! This way, when hunting season comes along, I don't get as tense, I still get excited, but not to the degree that I would call it buck fever, which I've had many times in the past before observing. Just my .02 cents worth. Good luck, and I mean it, you will get one and it will feel so freaking awesome!!!!
