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Hey hortonotor if your second one was your best one, then it's your first best one(hey work with me here) so let's here the story!!! As you know there are some knuckleheads are here that don't stick to the threads subject atleast yours will be in the ballpark!!!LOL so start the story we are waiting to hear it!!!!
12-02-2010, 09:52 AM
rthensley
I THINK my first kill was when I was 14. That would be about 28 years ago. (Darn, I'm old!)
I was using one of those old climbing stands that essentially was just a platform with a sharp blade on the back that dug into the tree. I THINK it was an old Baker stand. With the stand on the tree, you would put your feet in what looked like homemade straps, reach up and "bear hug" the tree, then lift up your feet. Keep repeating this until you get to your desiered height. Of course you also ended up wtih a bunch of tree bark all over the front of your shirt/jacket. To go down the tree, you simply reversed the process.
Obvioulsy there was no place to sit once got up in the tree. You just stood as long as you could, and then sat on the platform to rest your legs.
Safety harness? Not.
I was using an old Bear (I think) recurve.
I had a doe come right under my stand. My shot was a little high and forward. I remember seeing the arrow sticking out of her as she ran away.
Could not find any blood, so I just walked in the direction she ran. Found her maybe 80 yards away. Pure luck I found her.
You never forget your first! (Man, that reminds me of another story! I was pretty lucky then as well.)
12-09-2010, 11:22 PM
Lowpass21
With Stonegod's prompting...
I just got my first deer ever 11/23. An estimated 135in. 10 pointer. I'm 35 yrs old, so it was a work in progress to say the least. I posted my story here for the looooong version http://www.bowhuntingohio.com/forum/...en-t14551.html
I've hunted in the past a few years in WI on private land but always got skunked, or passed on does. This year I was determined to get a deer period. I had to start from scratch as this was my first year hunting in Ohio, and my first time shooting a bow, and no private land to hunt on. I put it together, picked out a few spots to scout, and got out hunting. After 4 solid days of no chances at a shot, and feeling defeated, in comes what I knew at least was a deer. I remember someone on this site saying first thing they did was once seeing a deer was to turn on the red dot sight. I remember thinking I didn't want to be the guy who goes to shoot and forgot to turn off the safety or something stupid like that. I actually thought of whoever said that so that was the first thing that went through my mind, "turn on the sight, turn off the safety." Next gap through the thick trees, I saw antlers worth shooting at! Behind more trees and still on the move. Had to look ahead for the one gap that would provide a shot, and it was a 2ft diameter window through branches. That moment, knowing this was it, pulling the trigger and realizing what was going on, was AWESOME. He turned around and bolted back where he came from. (Insert the natural high that went on for days.) I found a bloody arrow and later found em in the thick brush about 40 yds away. I couldn't believe on top of the how great things were already that this buck had a decent rack once I got a good look at it.
First time shooting a crossbow, first time gutting a deer by myself, first time looking like I murdered someone with blood all over my clothes, first time dragging a deer by myself, first time stuffing a deer into my car, first time hanging a deer in my garage overnight by myself, first time taking a deer to the butcher to get it skinned with my son, first time driving back with a shit eating grin to drop off this deer at the taxidermist in WI (dad's friend). Can you tell I loved every bit of it? http://www.bowhuntingohio.com/forum/...11-23-2010.jpg
12-27-2010, 04:15 PM
bporter
My first
Great read so far guys(and gals maybe?). Anyways 2010 is my first full hunting season. I am 27 years old, no on in my family hunts really. I got into hunting from a few guys I used to work with. Well last year in Nov. I ended up getting a bow from BPS. Got myself a Redhead Kronik. First time out, me and a friend were out shooting at my 16 acre farm. We were there for almost an hour shooting sighting this bow in when we decided to do a little scouting for our hunt that coming weekend. Me being the excited newbie I was I decided to nock an arrow and see what would happen. My buddy being a seasoned hunter thought I was crazy, but he said bring it anyways. This is about 2 p.m. 2nd week in Nov. I still had corn up on the farm and we were just walking around the outside. We get maybe 150 yards from the truck and my buddy stop and ducks. I look up and see a mature 8-10 point MONSTER (in my eyes a spike would have been a monster, this guy was like bambi's dad) about to clear the wood line giving me a 20 yard broadside shot.... Let me tell you that buck fever is something not to mess with lol. I shot my arrows MAYBE 15 yards straight into the ground. We got a good laugh out of that. My friend tells me that would have killed hunting for me if I would have taken that deer. Great story that I will remember the rest of my life.
Now for the good stuff. This year I was laid off the 2nd week in August. The wife told me to look for a job but also enjoy my time off (yes she is the best wife anyone could have). First week of bow season i was in the stand 5 out of the first 6 days. The first 4 sits I didnt see a thing. I get a phone call from another friend of mine and he asks me to go out to his land in Adams County. I agree and get to his house at 4:30 for a nice hour drive to his farm. We get dressed and head into the woods. I get to my stand about 20 mins before sun up. I am getting all set up in the stand, I had literally just put my bow hook into the tree and hung up my bow when a yote comes out and is sitting at 20 yards. I grab my bow and come to full draw and he scoots away. 2 hours go by and out of no where a BIG doe shows up. I was not prepared at all for this and just watched her walk by at about 30 yards. What a RUSH!!!! Now that I am alert looking all around with my bow in my hand. 30 mins go by and I see 2 doe making their way towards me munching on acrons. I stand up slowly, and clip on my release. The doe i decided to shoot was about 15 yards away. I put the pin behind her shoulder and let it fly........ WTF happened? i look down and my arrows is laying right next to her with out a broadhead on it. She only ran maybe 10 yards away. She goes behind a group of cedars and I knock another arrows. I come to full draw, she gets her vitals out from behind the tree..... I let it fly, SMACK!!! she goes MAYBE 15 yards and shes down!!!! The amount of emotion that came over me was amazing. I call my wife and tell her i got one. I text my buddy "doe down!" He tells me to stay put hes on the way. 30 mins go by and I was beaming with a smile from ear to ear. We get to her, and my buddy says "aw look a doe fawn." Gutted my first deer even though i did get sick once, I still did it all myself. Put her on my shoulders and walked to the truck.....
I will remeber that for the rest of my life..... The woods is somewhere I want to be all the time. Nothing is better then seeing the sun come up/go down in a tree. Hunting is just iceing on the cake.
12-27-2010, 05:11 PM
YouthHunter
Don't really have time to get the full story or what not. I shot my first one when I was 11 with a .410. It was the second day I ever hunted and shot it at 11. It was a small 7 point, the day before on my first day out I missed a big 10 point and wanted to quit hunting already lol
12-28-2010, 03:31 AM
offtheground
My Dad would take my brother and I rabbit hunting on Thanksgiving morning. That was all the hunting he did. Back in 1980 I hunted with a Browning compond bow, at that time I might go two weeks without seeing a deer. The main reason, I did'nt have a clue how to hunt them. Remember wearing a two bottle mix skunk sent, and old Baker climber stand, what would that be worth today! Any how had three doe come in one evening under white oak tree that was their staging area before going into bean field. I slowly stood up and pulled back my bow and set sites on largest of the three. When I released, (was using leather finger tip shooting glove then) the arrow was short by at least 5 yards. All three does just froze and so did I, totally shook up by now. My biggest problem was my quiver was clipped on side of stand, so I slowly set back down watching three deer at once. Unclipped arrow number two, by then the doe I shot at the first time was now raised up on two legs getting leaves off a tree, that is when I shot again and this time was dead on. Amazing how you never forget this kind of stuff.
My first buck was a young fork horn shot the next year with 12 gage, slug! The last time I gun hunted for deer, it just seamed like no sport in it., each to thier own! I then chased a big brute for next three years, with no luck.
Started back bow hunting last year for the first time since them days.
01-15-2011, 08:40 AM
Stonegod
GREAT STORIES HA..........NOW TELL US YOURS!!!!!!!!!! IF YOUR A GUEST THEN JOIN THE SITE!!!!!!!:banghead:
02-03-2011, 07:38 PM
OHPA
My first was when I was 17 in 1981. My third year of deer hunting. It was in Warren Pa. (Mountain area). I was with a group of about 6 of us including my father, uncles and cousins. First day of Pa. buck season. For those of you that have hunted in the mountains of Pa. back then, that was a special time. Hunters were everywhere. Rarely saw large bucks, but we would see 25-30 deer opening day. Very exciting. It was about 11:00 AM and I was sitting on a large boulder by myself and 4 does came by. I had seen plenty of does before that. One was an pure white albino. What a sight. As they were heading out of sight, a spike was following their trail with nose to ground. I took him at about 60 yards with my 270 rifle. Went right down. Had to go get my uncle to teach me to field dress him. After my dad and I left to take my buck back to camp, my cousin sat on my boulder and took a 5 point about 3 hours later. A day I hope to never forget.
02-03-2011, 09:47 PM
redneckross
12-4-03 gun season, franklin county.
i took a few days off work and stayed with my friends at school. hunted tuesday and wednesday in athens county and didnt see a dang thing. wednesday evening jon, another friend stoped by for a few beers and said he was wanting to know if i wanted to hunt his familys land in grove city. having been to his house and been on the land and seen all the pictures he has taken and some of the bucks he has taken i was excited to say the least.
4am thursday we loaded up in his "monty"carlo and headed to grove tucky.
breaking dawn found me about 200 yds behind his uncles house sitting against a giant cottonwood tree in a small drainage. he was sitting about 10 ft to my left where he had a view of an old access road. with 71 and 270 humming in the background we waited.
not long after daylight we heard a twig snap and then the loudest deer blow i have ever heard. 55 yds behind us there was a big doe up on the edge of a thicket on a hill side. we checked the wind and knew there was no way she was smelling us. so i rolled around the tree and got to my knees stedying the gun on the side of the tree. he wisperd and asked you want to shoot a doe this early??? i think he got my answer when he heard the saety click off. just as i rested my cheek on the stock he said wait. theres always a few bucks hanging around here mid day. so reluctantly i put the winchester 1300 back on safe. sat back down and we listened to that doe walk into the thicket and bed down.
it couldnt of been 5 min later he got my attention and motioned with his hand on his head and fingers in the air BUCK!!!!!! how far i wisperd. 50 yds. i got ready for the shot but had no idea where he was looking. i had no view of the deer untill he was on us. and when i say on us i mean 14 yds. jon was between the deer and me but off the side a little. he was in full view to jon for a minute or so and i wasnt shooting. well from my point of view i could only see his head and his rump. i had to wait. the deer seen us sitting there and kept looking us over but never showed any sign of fear. urban deer... i could see jon getting an itchy finger and was going to raise his gun the next time the deer looked away. just then the deer took 3 steps forward and gave me the shot. BOOM!!!!!!!!! the deer took off about 40 yds to where i could just see his head over the creek bank. i seen him do the death wobble and heard him fall in the leaves.
jon showed me the ins and outs of blood tracking. what the bright red and bubbles ment. and as he explained things to me i started getting excited. we found where my slug had slammed into a tree and there was hair and blood in the bark. once we walked up on the deer he showed me the trick of touching their eye to see if they are out. HE WAS OUT! i had just killed my first deer. a 2.5 year old 7 pt buck. i picked his head up and shouted all kinds of things i dont remember. then jon said wtf is that where his head was laying. i look down and theres a mink skull laying right under where my deers head had fallen. for those of you who have never seen a mink skull they are only slightly bigger than a quarter. he showed me how to gut then we dragged.
when we returned to school we hung him up and got drunk. really drunk. when i returned to school after working the fall qtr. i took the head and made a euro mount in the lab i was a tutor in.
wow. i cant believe i remembered all that as i started typing. now im looking up at that skull mount hanging on the wall and the mink skull sitting on top of it. good times and great memories.
now theres a golf course on that land and most of his grandmas land has been sold off to walmart and other developers. but... o grams is smart. she took that money and baught more land just down the way. ha ha.
02-09-2011, 10:47 AM
eubie
Ok, Stonegod here it goes.
Jackson county gun season 1989, Sat to be exact the last day in those years. I was a senior in high school hunting with my cousin, he showed me allthe in and outs that first year. Well that morning got to his in-laws farm before dawn and he yold me where to go. I remember thinking first morning I ever hunted and he wants me to walk through the wood in the dark with a gun, Ok man whatever. Got avbout 50 yards doen a tractor path and jumped a grouse scared the living crap out of me. Decieded then and thare to what for it to get daylight. Day now I can walk again and see what is out here to get me. Found my spot and stood next to an osk tree. After a couple of hours got bored, the ADD kicken in, and walked across the field to look in other woods, saw nothing and went back to my tree. Not 5 min. later I hear him shoot and scared the crap mout of me again, second time so far that day. Well 10 mins or so later a hear something behind me and see a deer, then I see antlers. What do I do? I jump to the next tree, how that deer never saw me I will never know. Now the buck is walking to me and will pass me. When he was behind a tree I raised the 12 ga. single shot FIE and cocked the hammer. He stepped out and I pulled the trigger and saw him drop in his tracks. Shot him at 8 yards. Now what?
I hollered for Griff my cousin and he came running to me. I had no knife so he showed me how to gut. I still can hear him asking if I had a weak stomach before he started. My 8 point was the first deer I killed but the last time I ever got to hunt with Griff. I went to college and hunted other places and was never home again for gun season. We tried but schedules never matched up and Griff passed away in Aug of 2000 from a heat attack.
Man writing this makes it fell like yesterday, I can close my eyes and still see everything about that morning.