your first deer
04-20-2004, 09:14 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere in Michigan
Posts: 5,702
RE: your first deer
My first deer was with my bow, it was approximately an 150 lb. doe and I am still as proud of that deer as the day I took her. Made one of the best bowshots on her that I have ever made. Had an amazing blood trail and everything was just perfect. Dad was there for the recovery and trail along with my uncle and cousin, was just an awesome experience!!!!
04-20-2004, 11:29 AM
#13
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 330
RE: your first deer
33 years ago, my Dad took me deep back into one of his stands (a huge boulder the size of a house). He sat two ridges over. The very first morning I ever stepped into the woods with a high power rifel in my hands and I took a nice plump four point with a 30-30 bolt action (wish I still had that neat little weapon).
To this day, I still hunt the same general area and fire lanes....several nice ones on the wall, next to an old narly looking non-typical that my Dad shot on that same stand 20 years before I hunted!! Love it....RIP to my favorite hunting bud - DAD!!
To this day, I still hunt the same general area and fire lanes....several nice ones on the wall, next to an old narly looking non-typical that my Dad shot on that same stand 20 years before I hunted!! Love it....RIP to my favorite hunting bud - DAD!!
04-20-2004, 12:16 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 450
RE: your first deer
I was in kindergarden, crawled up in my dads lap he helped me aim and i pulled the trigger on a nice fat doe. Those were the days.
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04-20-2004, 01:51 PM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Posts: 1,964
RE: your first deer
Mulie stag when I was 14. Used a then brand new Rem 700 in .270Win on about a 170 yard shot. My dad helped me gut it out and load it in the back of the pick up. We were headed out of the deer patch and back into town by 9:00 a.m. Not particularly memorable, almost seemed too easy.
Good Luck and Good Hunting,
EKM
Good Luck and Good Hunting,
EKM
04-20-2004, 04:38 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,476
RE: your first deer
My first was a smallish doe from the tip of the mitt in Michigan. I was 17 and it was 1970. About a 70 yard shot with my Steyr 7 x 57, it ran about 70 yards in and through a cedar swamp with a great blood trail. at first I couldn't find any blood but finally noticed that the tall light brown marsh grass had a little blood up high...around deer-chest-high. By getting my eyes down to the blood level and looking horizontally I could make out the escape route where it entered the swamp. My shot was off, but I had severed both neck arteries and the doe actually drowned as it ran...lungs were ballooned with blood when I found her. I'll never forget coming up on her as I was bent over at the waist the entire time through the cedar swamp...and all of a sudden she was right below my eyes. Not a great shot but I was still pleased with myself.
It was a tough drag...and a memorable day.
It was a tough drag...and a memorable day.
04-20-2004, 08:36 PM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Blue Eye, MO.
Posts: 173
RE: your first deer
Long time ago, Nov. 12, 1962, 12 years old. It was a fork horn at Menard, Texas. I'll never forget finding my dad to tell him the news. I think he was prouder than I was. He taught me well.
04-21-2004, 10:51 AM
#20
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 17
RE: your first deer
My first deer was a small 8pt buck taken with a bow in 1986. I still have the rack hanging on the wall. It is now accompanied by my first P&Y buck I harvested this past fall. That little 8pt is still my favorite!!