No kidding. When I first started bowhunting I looked at my sights through the monkey tail instead of the peep on a 20 yard shot at a doe. Arrow went about 30 yards over her back into the trees. HAHA!
Same here, I double up 2 years ago and still haven't got a buck with my bow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Well boys I got it done this morning. My very first ever harvest. She was at 22yrds quartering away. I hit her a little back but clipped lung on the exit. Had a pretty good blood trail, enough that a first timer was able to track her. She went about 150yrds. My first time for field dressing and processing also.
Congrats RutandStrut! First one is always special. Learned a couple of things and gonna have loins on the grill. Not a bad day sir!
Congrats on your many "firsts!" Blessings...........Pastorjim Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
Update on my buck: still no sign of him and no birds or other scavengers have gathered. At this point I'm thinking I only clipped him and I am really hoping I get another shot at him, it would be better that he is alive instead of letting all that meat go to waste. I am going to let my area settle for the week, get back to hunting this friday or saturday and check my cam to see if he is on there. I have compiled some of the mistakes I made that you don't want to follow. All of these are no brainers looking back, and I might have a dead deer to show if I had not assumed as much as I did, but in the moment I wasn't thinking and it is really easy to make these mistakes. #1 Shot was rushed, this was my first ever shot at a buck and I will admit that he got in my head a bit. He appeared downwind of me and got the jump on me. the time between when I first saw him until the shot was probably only about 25-35 seconds, definitely under a minute. I admit that I punched the release the moment my pin settled behind his shoulder. The pin was alittle higher then halfway up the deer, I needed to consciously choose a spot on the deer, not just release the second my pin floated on target. #2 forgot to bend at waist. #3 Did not measure distance beforehand. It looked like 20, I will find out later this week how far the shot was. Either way you should pace out expected travel routes before hand. I usually use a measuring wheel and leave a large rock or stick in the ground at 20/30/40 yards just as a standard to judge by. This time I didn't and added another easily avoidable variable that potentially contributed to my loss #4 When I found no blood on my arrow, and no blood for about 30 yards, I needed to back out, or move at a snails pace. I was confident that I had double lunged him and I had given him over an hour of time to die, but that is apparently not what happened. I let my two brothers move on ahead of me and they just wandered around looking for the deer (100% not their fault) We trampled what little sign I had in minutes. If there isn't a solid blood trail, you cannot just assume your deer is piled up 100 yards away! This is not how I had hoped opening morning would go, but its how the dice rolled. I will improve and hopefully have a success story the next time I post in here. Good luck to you all! Go get em -Josh Axtell
Lol booner the modesty tho lmao thats a stud muffin in most any sane fellers head Sent from my SM-G955U using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
That's a stud dude. Congrats to you! Blessings..........Pastorjim Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
