Your first bowkill...when, where and story.

[Whitefeather]

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Post a little story about your first bowkill.

Here's mine...

The year...1990. The place...Beaver County, Pa.

A young doe coming from over the hill at a dead run, halts to a bleat sound I made with my mouth. She looks in my direction (on the ground) and I shoot. The arrow hits a twig and sails over her back near her face. It actually cuts her cheek open, but she had no idea.


She takes off running, but I stop her with a snort sound. She then decides to find out what exactly the noise is coming from behind the bush about 15 yards from her, when I nocked another arrow and double lunged her. I watched her fall about 45 yards away for my first bowkill.


I didn't know the arrow hit her cheek til I flipped her over to field dress her. For her to come back after the first shot, she couldn't have felt it.

What's your story?

JP

[scooter]

My first bow kill was a MONSTER, P & Y doe...Should have seen the ears on her...LOL!. We we're hunting a favorite mule deer area in southern alberta and I hunkered down in the bush and watched her feed down.......Came in at 42 yards broadside and I hit her perfectly...... Perfect double lung shot with Barrie Snyper broadheads. Went about 60 yards and that was that.

Very impressive broadheads and a pretty decent shot if I do say so myself >>>---------------------> .... Was a great hunt and was happy as heck!

Scott

[BlueNorther]

My first bow kill was a bull moose in the last week of the archery season in WMU 326.An hour later I ambushed a white tail while I was walking out to get help with the moose I just killed.Filled the freezer with two arrows :mrgreen:

[Jr.BowmanMI]

Yes, I got my log in to work....

My first deer was with a rifle, so I guess it dont count, but.......

It was the youth deer opener. We were walking and looking in fields, Much like the ones in Jon video, and Howie shoots the doe, Well, Out comes a doe, we scurry behind a tree. She heads into the brush. Then out pops a button buck. He was at around 75 yrds. I squeezed off my 45/70 marlin, next thing I know, is smoke, not sure If i Hit the deer. Iron sights. We stand up and see the deer in the same spot he was standing.... Double lung kill and knocked him on the ground..... Later that night, BACK STRAPS... Josh

[scooter]

Excellent story Josh...Glad ya finally made it in here. :D

[Jr.BowmanMI]

Thanks, I will try and frequent more... Josh

[Mikey]

A Big ol' Fat Muley Doe ...... I was in South Central Alberta on an abandonded Farmstead that we had permission on ..... we come into the yard and park our trucks in the quonset and wait for about 2 hours ...seemed like an eternaty ...... from there I belly crawl about 200 yrds to the north of the quonset then head west about 60yrds ...... Now I am hunkerd in an "L" shaped double row of carrigana bushes ...the up down of the "L" runs north south for about 400yards while the bottom of the "L" runs east for 40 yrds or so .... I am sitting in the NW corner. What I havent said yet ...is that on the north side there is an alfalfa feild where deer just love and on my way in there was a doe with fawn that Busted me crossing the driveway on my 60 yrd west trek so they took off ....... I am waiting for the deer to start feeding down the hill to the west of me(which we have noted happens about 1030 11am and about 4-430 pm) so I am watching west and kinda south .......I shoulda brought a cushion or something cuase my butt was getting sore after about 30 mins sitting in this bush .... I had to adjust ..then I see her ... A Big ole fat Doe sitting at no more than 15 yrds from me .... "oh hello" I thought .... I adjusted around the best I could without making to sudden movements or too much noise .... recall that I was looking west and south ... I am right handed so I set up to shoot south or west ..... this doe is 15 yrds due east of me ...so you can figure that this movement is quite an exercise ...and probally for nothing but I get around to where I could Draw on her anyway ... I hit her high and she dropped Instantly(*cough* SPINE!!!! :twak: ) ... I knew i caught part of lungs as I could hear her sucking chest .... I fired another into her lungs and heart for the quick cleaner death, I said a small thank you to the Bowhunting Gods before i I took my first bite .... Life has been good ever since



I phoned my wife telling her I was Tagged up at 11:15 am .... we still had all day for my huntin partner to get his ...... he was after Buck meat .... he got his the next weekend

[Jr.BowmanMI]

Great story mikey... Josh

[394-NTELK]

My first bow kill was" HUGE" a friend and I where practicing in a old farm stead, saw the beast come out of the grass to the base of a tree and just before it had a chance to attack I placed the easton 2315 camo hunter with a125gr judo point threw its chest the blood trail was emense makeing the tracking job easy he neven went more then 1/2inch.My first bow kill a full grown field mouse :rofl:

[scooter]

My first bow kill was" HUGE" a friend and I where practicing in a old farm stead, saw the beast come out of the grass to the base of a tree and just before it had a chance to attack I placed the easton 2315 camo hunter with a125gr judo point threw its chest the blood trail was emense makeing the tracking job easy he neven went more then 1/2inch.My first bow kill a full grown field mouse :rofl:

:haha:

[Ducker]

My first bow kill was in 1993 on the prairies in Southern Alberta. I had been attempting to stalk large Muley bucks all season, but I could never get a decent shot before they would bust me (I was an amature through and through).

However, I was capable of getting to within 10 yards of the does. I can say this, because it happened atleast once a week. I would be sitting in the brush, waiting for the BIG Boys to come out and play, and I would always have atleast one doe walk by within 10 yards, and not even know I was there.

Finally on the last day of Archery season, I figured I had better fill my tag with whatever sized buck I could. I spotted a couple of smaller bucks and some does on the side of a coulee in the scrub brush. I began my tactful stalk....hunched down to start, then I sleeked half way down the coulee and began to traverse across it, heading toward the muleys. With each step My heart began to pump harder and faster...I thought my heart was going to burst, or at the very least I thought that my heart was going to give me away because it seemed to be 10 times louder than my foot steps.

As I rounded the corner of the nole, there they were. The closest buck a meer spiker, and not more than 25 yards. I slowly hunkered down and put an arrow on my string, and ever so quietly grunted the 80lb bow to full draw, slowly stood up and took careful aim to mark on the bucks broadside and let the arrow fly. The arrow flew true, but the deer flinched and it hit him in a quartering away position, taking out one lung. He gave a couple of bleats and ran down to the river and began to cross to the other side. The arrow and the river proved to be too strong for him and he fell over dead in the river....needless to say, I had to get a little damp to retrieve my first big game kill.

I have been hooked on big game ever since, I hope that this year my wife can get her first big game kill with a bow (last year she shot her first muley with a rifle, this year she wants to do it with a bow).

Deer steak for supper anyone? :p

Happy and safe hunting,
Ken

[bdoa]

My first bow kill was with an old high country sniper, 80lbs draw uuugh.
I was up in the Ram falls, it was about 32 above. I was sleeping on a nice big log in the shade, I was very content to tell the guys I had walked all day and saw nothing... Something woke me, I walked to the ridge to take a leak, and there in the creek bed was a buck and doe walking together(stange to see since it was early sept.) I put the stalk on them walking the ridge. they disappeared into this bluff of trees along the creek, so very slowly I slid down the bank(approx 150feet) took about 1/2 hour to get down inch by inch. I had to manover the creek trying not to make noise or get wet, lets just say I didn't make noise... So with one wet boot I worked my way through the bluff of trees very carefully, I spotted the buck in the grass, could just see his head gear. Without any success I tried to get an angle on him, so I drew my bow, let out a whistle, and boy did that buck move, he shot straight off his a$$ and was going full throttle in three steps. He stopped at 60 yards to look back for the doe, when he stopped I released, caught him square in the chest. I was so excited that I had finialy killed something with my bow, I dressed him, covered him in a coat to keep flies away and headed back to camp to get a quad. I no sooner got to camp when the F&W came around the corner. There I was covered in blood, and had forgotten to tag my deer(bad). The officers where great, they said go back and tag the deer we will check it on the way back.. I tagged it straight away, then buried it it the cool muskeg, as it would have spoiled before long. On the way back the officers stopped to check the deer, and in doing so the head officer, (whom I am somehow friends with now) stepped waist deep in soupy mud..lol
The worst part of this is that I had taken the head to get score for my fish and game club, I left it with the guy, his dog, or another dog ran off with the head never to be seen again. All I have is this picture.. he was not a big buck, but it was my first.

Thanks
Randy
go to this link, it is the first deer
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/thehaak/randy.htm

[scooter]

My first bow kill was with an old high country sniper, 80lbs draw uuugh.
I was up in the Ram falls, it was about 32 above. I was sleeping on a nice big log in the shade, I was very content to tell the guys I had walked all day and saw nothing... Something woke me, I walked to the ridge to take a leak, and there in the creek bed was a buck and doe walking together(stange to see since it was early sept.) I put the stalk on them walking the ridge. they disappeared into this bluff of trees along the creek, so very slowly I slid down the bank(approx 150feet) took about 1/2 hour to get down inch by inch. I had to manover the creek trying not to make noise or get wet, lets just say I didn't make noise... So with one wet boot I worked my way through the bluff of trees very carefully, I spotted the buck in the grass, could just see his head gear. Without any success I tried to get an angle on him, so I drew my bow, let out a whistle, and boy did that buck move, he shot straight off his a$$ and was going full throttle in three steps. He stopped at 60 yards to look back for the doe, when he stopped I released, caught him square in the chest. I was so excited that I had finialy killed something with my bow, I dressed him, covered him in a coat to keep flies away and headed back to camp to get a quad. I no sooner got to camp when the F&W came around the corner. There I was covered in blood, and had forgotten to tag my deer(bad). The officers where great, they said go back and tag the deer we will check it on the way back.. I tagged it straight away, then buried it it the cool muskeg, as it would have spoiled before long. On the way back the officers stopped to check the deer, and in doing so the head officer, (whom I am somehow friends with now) stepped waist deep in soupy mud..lol
The worst part of this is that I had taken the head to get score for my fish and game club, I left it with the guy, his dog, or another dog ran off with the head never to be seen again. All I have is this picture.. he was not a big buck, but it was my first.

Thanks
Randy
go to this link, it is the first deer
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/thehaak/randy.htm
Great first buck story Randy!

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[alwayshunting]

My first bow hunting Kill was huntimg Black bear.
Sitting in a treestand 15yds from the bait the bear came out , I drew and he gave me no shot stole some donuts and ran back into the bush. 5 min later came back out I drew but he didn't give me a shot ran back into the bush but this time I could still see him . Sat there with the bow drawn for what seemed like 5 min till he came out and gave me a beautiful double lung shot. It ran 30yds after being shot. A nice 200 lb black bear.

[GaryM12]

My story is much like 394-NTELK's except you can insert squirrel instead of mouse.....And since Its only my second year bowhunting, and I live in N.S. where theres a deer behind every July Iceberg, that other part of the story is yet to be told. Hopefully this year.

[Kirby]

First bow kill was a Snow shoe hare. 18 yards, perfect shot, it was dead, but flopping, so my dad decided he should hit it with an arrow.

First large game what a 3x3 white tail. Jennings Titan #60, easton 2117, with thunderhead 100gr, I was still hunting a ridge, and he came out 15 yards aways, stood, I drew, fired, he went 60 yards, and piled up.

Kirby

[20-30-40]

first bow kill was last year.....4x4 Mulie not huge but it had horns. A couple of friends pushing an "island" we have access to south of Carseland. 2 bucks come my way...a big 6X5 and the 4X4. I hunker down behind some bushes with my son behind me and wait....and wait....and wait. Man I hate that part LOL. The 6X5 never came by me but when the 4X4 did it was 12 yards away. Buck fever and trying to impress the boy cause me to shoot to the right and miss it clean! He turns around and walks not runs but walks to about 23 yards and gives me another broad side shot. I anchor my pin behind the shoulder and let fly my carbon aeros with a 100 grain Thunderhead and it goes clean through. Mr.Mulie bolts about 35 yards and dies right there.

My son runs up to it and lets out a big WOO HOO and gives me one of the biggest hugs I have ever received in his 10 years of life and then says to me.." Dad, mom is going to be mad at you. She only lets you hunt because you almost always never get anything". Now my son wants to buy a bow for himself and get ready for the day that he can shoot his first trophy.

[Mikey]

great story 20-30-40 ...... I cant wait till I can take my kid hunting

My son runs up to it and lets out a big WOO HOO and gives me one of the biggest hugs I have ever received in his........

because that is what its all about right there

[Black Bull]

My first bowkill was in 1961,Browning nomad Stalker recurve 60#@28",distance 50yards,the shot ,double lung, the specie" a groundhog"usely called here a "marmot",weight over 15#.First deer was in 1988.at the edge of a field by a old lumber cut.
I install a stand in one huge pine tree and an other for my friend around 150 feet from mine.It was his first bow hunt, I told him the day before to wash with Lifeboy soap,so he did.But he did not tell me that he shaved on morning with lather and lotion,so at 2pm we get to our stand.

At 5pm two big does got out in the field and started coming my way, the biggest one with nose up smelling the air ,it stopped at 5 yards from my tree still humming the air,I could not moove cause the doe would see me ,she pass in front of a small sapling ,I draw and when she clear the saplin I release a2216 with a 142gr Razorback 5 right in between the 2 shoulderblades,it drop right there ,release an other arrow through both lungs and it was over.When I reach my friend , I ask him if he wash as I said ,Yea he said,I told him that he did something wrong cause the doe smelled something,that when he told me about his shaving.That doe field dressed weighed 163#.

Since then I hunt alone,and had a lot of success.
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