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Your first hunting bow

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  1. buttonbuckmaster

    buttonbuckmaster Grizzled Veteran

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    What was the first bow you brought to the woods? Mine was a brand new 1987 Jennings Black Bear. I had a cobra sight with 3 brass pins, bohning quiver, flipper rest, XX75's as long as my leg, tipped with Razorbak 5's. Pretty sure those arrows were pushing 600 grains.:deer:
    I still have that bow, my kids get some enjoyment shooting it now.
     
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    zimmer/wi Weekend Warrior

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    An old champion bow.
     
  3. SevenMag

    SevenMag Die Hard Bowhunter

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    first hunting bow or first bow I hunted with???

    I had an old Bear Whitetail Hunter with the old painted metal pin sight... shot wood arrows out of it...

    first bow I ever actually hunted with though was my current ross 334...

    it's a long story why it took that long to actually hunt with a bow
     
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    DoubleLung84 Weekend Warrior

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    my first bow wasn't too long ago. It was a 2006 Parker Hornet. I took it into the woods a handful of times before I bought my bowtech. Now it is my back up.
     
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    bz_711 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    '93 Hoyt Raider, good 'ol round wheel compound.:beer: Cobra 3 brass pin sight, original TM hunter rest, hoyt matching quiver holding 6 XX75 2114's with 4-blade Muzzy 90 grains. Probably on 55# draw weight, memory seems to believe only about 205 fps on chrono. Double Lung pass-through on my first doe(used two blade Gold Tip expandables on her).:d
    Funny to think I used to practice on square straw bales - and it stopped my arrows just fine...

    Sure wish I had kept this bow:bash: - perfect beginner setup to get others in the sport with highly adjustable draw lengths and weight.
     
  6. Justin

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    I started out in 1992 with a Joy Valley Archery (JVA for short) Astro. I tried to find and old photo of it, but couldn't. It weighed roughly 47 lbs and had no grip, just bare metal on the riser. Great for late season bowhunting. :tu:

    After that I graduated to a Golden Eagle Predator.
     
  7. Jim_IV

    Jim_IV Die Hard Bowhunter

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    A Parker Challenger youth bow I got for my birthday in 1999 or 2000. Dad took me to a pro shop to get fitted for my bow. Neither one of us knew what we were doing. He didn't get interested in archery until just a couple years ago:cool:
     
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    Got mine first hunting bow for Christmas 1990. All I know is it was a Golden Eagle. I shot that bow for countless hours from the time I got it until hunting season opened the next year. Hell, I was so dedicated to killing a deer with it that I skipped Homecoming my Freshman year in 1991 to hunt. Good thing too, killed my first deer with a bow that night.
     
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    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    My dad bought me a Bear Whitetail Master in 1998 I believe. Someone actually suggested to me that I learn to shoot fingers when I first started shooting a bow. I don't think I could shoot accurately past about 10-12 yards. I used Easton Super Slam XX-78 aluminum arrows. I think the draw length was too long and I was using arrows that extended 4 inches past my arrow rest...man I was a sight to behold in the woods....like Elmer Fudd.
     
  10. Jim_IV

    Jim_IV Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Here is a picture of it, traded a guy for a diffrent bow a few month back

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    DoePeeSteve Weekend Warrior

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    :lmao:

    I started out with a Browning _____ that was about 15 years old. It used aluminum arrows that were 3 inches thick and traveled about 8 fps (now that's stopping power). She served me well in practice. It was a great bow for me to learn on as it was not forgiving. If you were off, you were off by FEET.

    Went out to the woods a few times with her, but swore I wouldn't draw on a deer. After all, I could run as fast as the arrow. Maybe I would have been better off chasing the deer that year?
     
  12. Schultzy

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    I got my 1st hunting bow In 1985 or 1986, It was a Martin Lynx that my parents bought for me. I believe Gri22ly had the same 1st bow as I did. Besides that dad had bought me other smaller bows (longbows and recurves) to goof around with when I was just a little fart (3 years old or so).
     
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    My first new Bow was a 1963 Bear Kodiak and is what made the critters in my neighborhood fear for their lives, but it was a 1967 model Kodiak Special that I packed to the Deer woods for the first time.
     
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    See Sig.:d
     
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    I first set foot in the woods with a Shakespeare Necedah(late 60's vintage) recruve that my Dad's cousin gave me to use. 2018 fall orange XX75's (with vanes) and satellite aero broadheads.

    I still have that bow. It's a nice shooter.
     
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    Mine is in the sig too...I'm pretty new to bowhunting.
     
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    My first bow was a little High Country not sure what it was I used it one year and harvested two does!
     
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    A 1994 Hoyt Heat...it seems like a piece of junk now compared to more modern bows and the grip is HUGE.

    But I did kill my biggest buck to date with it.
     
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    Here are the bows that I've killed stuff (besides fish) with:

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    Browning Nomad Stalker, JVA Astro, XI Demon, Bowtech Equalizer


    The Browning Nomad Recurve was my first bow. (note, that's not the exact bow) I then got a Bear Whitetail II but never killed anything with it. I hated that bow and it ruined me on archery for many years. Then in college I tried archery again since it was one of the few social things to do in North Dakota. That's when I got the JVA Astro. (the same brand/make that Justin started with. Isn't that cute?) It has a 28" draw, the shortest draw that was available in a 'hunting weight' bow at the time. It's a clunky, low end bow but we got along great. My next bow is the XI Demon and while I killed several deer and hogs with it, I never really liked it. It has always been squirrelly. I shot it some last fall in case I needed a backup bow. Kendall took pity on me and bought me another Equalizer so the XI is 99.99% retired now.

    I still shoot the recurve as much as my shoulder will let me. (which is less and less these days) Kind of scared to even draw the Astro back. I know it's got broken teflon bushings and parts of it seem to be oxidizing together.
     
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    GregH Legendary Woodsman

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    In 1966 I got a brand new Indian Archery recurve bow. It was a 35# draw and I shot my first deer with it in 1968 when I was 12. I still have that bow.
     

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