How long did you bowhunt before you harvested your first deer?

It was at least 4 or 5 years. Didn't have near as much information back then like we do now. It fueled my fire for bowhunting! I started with all small deer. Had to work my up (or earn my way up) the ladder. Small does, button bucks, bigger does, spike, 4 point and so on. It really kept me going and wanting more. Loved every second of it! My mom used to say "your never going to kill anything with a bow" that helped fuel my fire as well. Haha! I love bowhunting!

 

Started bow hunting in 2008 missed a few good bucks 8 pointers. 2011 shot a 10 pointer on a rainy afternoon when I almost didn't go hunting pouring. First deer I ever harvested I was pumped


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this is like a "show your age" thread

had to be about 1975, begged my dad all summer to buy me a compound for my first season @ 12 yrs old, he still used a 45# bear recurve that i leaned to shoot with.
we settled on a Bear Polar LTD from a local shop, a doz. fiberglass arrows (which i still have a few of), and Bear razor heads.
took me all season as i was hunting bucks only, in december late season it was anything goes, on my 13th birthday pops was putting drives on for me and i nailed one @ 50 yrds. first shot, first kill !
turned out to be a buck that had already lost it horns, due to a badly infected rifle shot thru the front leg ?
he was so proud of me as he talked me thru the gutting process !
the next year he got me my first Baker climber, i can still hear the deer scattering as it clanked around to get it set up

 

Took me 18 hours into my first season to get my first deer, preparation makes more good success. And awesome story above me!! It's crazy how technology advances and changes

 

2 months! Small buck but I sure was happy!