How many years of bowhunting did it take before you got your first deer with a bow?

[hjohn429]

How many years of bowhunting did it take before you got your first deer with a bow?

[buckhunter]

2 months

[Brian Cramer]

I was fortunate to have harvested a six (6) point on my first archery hunt with my new Diamond Black Ice bow.

[MLH]

First time - still hunting.

[ishawooa]

As I remember I hunted for 4 or 5 years before I ever got a shot but back then the deer population in the south was not nearly as great as now. Good excuse huh?

[Del in KS]

Killed a doe with a very lucky shot first time out in 1973, Ft. Benning, GA. My arrow cut both Achilles tendons.

[steve182]

I have to admit, it took me a few years. Had a couple clean misses, right over their backs, made me change my technique. Now i follow the front leg up to the target instead of coming down from the top of back. Buck fever didn't help. Lately i've been very successful.

[Golfing Sportsman]

It took me two years before I got my first deer and I have yet to get a buck with my bow, but I haven't given up.

[rrmont]

It was my first time out in my second year. Took a nice fat doe, and boy did she taste good!

[timothyfaw]

3 month. Killed it in one shot

[steve182]

I was buck hunting only at the time, or i'dve probably scored a lot sooner. This year i'll take a doe for the freezer right away and hold out for a Wallhanger. Have killed a few decent bucks with my bow, but the Good ones on my wall are rifle kills. Hope that'll change when i go to Ohio in November.

[wallofsam]

The first month I hunted, but like steve182, I also would have bagged a deer sooner if I hadn't been strictly a buckhunter at the time.

[hjohn429]

Same thing that happened to steve182 happened to me, but I still havent gotten a bow kill.

[huskerguy]

I got a nice 8 pointer my first time, but I've been on a 3 year drought now.

[willkillsdeer]

its been three years and still no luck i've had severl shots but mostly on yearlings its alot of fun and i'm not giveing up anytime soon.