A photo thread of "Firsts"

Lets start getting a little amped up for the season and post some pics of "firsts" in your bowhunting career. It could be any "first" such as your first deer, first "mature" buck, first bow deer, the first deer your son/daughter shot, your first animal taken outside the US, your first swamp deer, anything. We all have to start somewhere and everyone has a different experience which makes it more fun.

I'll start with a couple of "firsts", here is my first 8 pointer which was also the first deer I ever rattled in and first deer I ever took a picture of after 15 years of hunting......2007. Also, here is my first recurve deer.

 

First bow kill. 7 pointer shot on 3rd sit ever with a bow from the ground.

 

Wow, that is cool Wesley...third hunt ever with a bow and from the ground! What a memory.

 

Yep, thankfully he was young and dumb....

 

Heres a couple to throw in the mix.....

1st Bow buck 130" main frame 8pt



1st OH Big Buck 140"+

 

For you fly rod types.

Spey Nation 2012 is in the books. http://speynation.com/spey-nation-2012/ WE had a great day and a great turn out. The speakers/presenters were all great. First off we had the English fella, Simon Gawesworth, the head guru of 2 handed rods... well hell I guess really all flyrod fishing. Absolutely wonderful. Another celebrity type was Tim Rajeff, from Vancouver Washington. If you watch any fishing shows you've probably seen him on LL Beam's Guide to the Outdoors. Very entertaining speaker on the river with his rods in hand. He now owns Echo Fly rods and AirFlow lines. I didn't win the big raffle... again a loser... but it was a great show. Lots of nice raffle prizes from hand made leather fly boxes up to the 6 days in British Columbia catching steelhead. I don't know how many spey rods were given out and reels and complete sets. They gave the proceeds left after expenses to our salmon club. I have to tell you.... it was a several thousand dollar donation to our club. Truly generous. THe young man that started the Spey Nation gathering on the banks of the Salmon River came to our stocking day a couple weeks ago. His words... "this is the kind of stuff we should be supporting". He gave us all the proceeds. It's grown every year. Todays donation is enough to pretty much take care of all our expenses, egg buying, fish testing, food and everything for next year. Our piggy bank was down to about $1500 before this. Great day, great people... a fun time. Then I came home and went into AFib about the time I walked through the door. Now I'm in misery but had a wonderful day.

Hey excuse me for this being here. I have been trying to post a new post and everytime I hit submit I get an error saying "It can't be posted because my TOKEN has expired". So I kept trying and trying and finally it went through... and ended up here. Sorry

 

No problem David.

Rutin, what time of the year did you take out that Ohio buck?

 

First bow kill...




First bow buck...

 

First Deer ever shot back in 2010 5pt buck, then got another 5pt the next day! Now its time to look for the big guys and kill a deer with my bow!

My buddies nag on me for this guy, saying I got a nice pair of salad forks off of him haha

 

First deer with a bow - 1968



First mature buck 182" - 1991



First drop tine buck - 2008



First 13" tined buck - 2007



First 9" brow tined buck - 2005



First Fu Manchu *not really)



First Christmas buck - 2006



First moose - 2008



Dang it! I ran out of pictures on this computer, I'm up north. More later.

 

Great stuff Greg. That tall, dark racked slob is still my favorite of all your bucks!

 

1st compound bow, 1976 PSE Pacer.


1st bowkill 1993.


1st bow buck 1996. (Yeah I got lucky)


1st elk 2005


1st kill from a ground blind


1st fish stuck.


1st Antelope with bow.


1st deer killed on my property.


1st buck killed on my property.


1st bowkilled turkey.


1st TAT.

 

Man i can never get enough of these pics. That moose one with the look on you is priceless.

 

First deer 1992


First mature buck 2006

 

AWESOME pics guys! Man I love seeing this stuff. I really wish I would have taken pictures of the deer I shot before 2007. My first 15 years of hunting I did not take a single pic.

Again, great stuff guys.

Greg I swear, this buck is the buck of my dreams!

 

First deer gutted in front of my son! hahahaha. He said, "it smells like a sewer!"

 

my lil audreys first time catching her own fish

her first time on a hunt with me (not my bird I just called it in for a buddy)

 

First bow buck...back in 96

 

1st late season kill, 1st buck, and 1st mount of my first buck.

 

cwoods, that is a heck of a buck....and for it to be your first is fantastic.