Last year was my first season hunting. My very first shot at a deer was a 10 point buck and for all kinds of reasons...I missed. But, I spent the rest of the season practicing because my confidence level fell way short. Like many on here have said, it is completely different shooting at a target versus the real thing. Towards late season I was ready to try again. I took my first doe on New Years Day in my first year of hunting. This is my second year and I took a doe an hour into my first sit. I am hoping that I get another chance at that 10 pointer that I missed last year. He was still showing his face on camera for weeks after I missed him.
My first year i missed 2 deer before finally killing my first in mid-november, from a natural blind. I was probably 15-20 sits in. That was in 2006 when i was 16, and i havnt killed a buck since.
My first year I missed a doe on my only weekend of bow hunting and didn't really bow hunt much after that. The next year I hunted hard and got a small six pointer as my first archery kill, on my fifth or sixth. Last year I hunted even harder and I thought I was going to get skunked for the season but I ended up getting a small buck. All in total I've been gun hunting and bow hunting for 15 years and I have yet to get a wallhanger.
I shot my first deer 3 days into my first season. Bad shot never recovered her. I made a bunch of bad shot and learned a lot of lessons the hard way. That being said I took my first doe in the 3 rd week of october(1st year bow). I don't understand how someone can hunt 5 + years and not take a deer with a bow. If you do your scouting and practice enough you should have a shot in your first year.
24 years ago 15 minutes on my first hunt with a bow ever shot a nice 8 pointer from the ground with absolutely no idea what I was doing.
It took me 5 years to get my first deer with the bow. I was 19 when I connected on a spike. I only shot at one other deer (doe) a couple years before that and nerves got the best of me.
it took me 7 years to get one with a bow and i took every year after for 4 years now its been 4 years since i got one with a bow and the dumb mistakes get worse but the encounters get better so stick with it some people nail them off the bat and some it takes loner but this is a sport that takes dedication so it will work out for you ood luck out there stick with it
15 minutes into opening day my first solo bow hunt at age 12 I shot a button buck. But I hunted with my father for two years and didn't have a bow that would penetrate the deer. I think he was just teaching me patients and to be quiet.
