Now Shawn is a modest man but as a good friend I had to share his "first". Actually he killed a bull elk a few years ago in Co. with his Great Plains but this is his first trad deer.
Think the smile saws it all. Best to you Buddy!
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Way to go.......Shawn !!!!!
......and thank-YOU Tom for posting it up for him. No sense in being modest around here.....we're all friends and pretty much cut from the same cloth.
I too.......just made my first traditional kill earlier in the week. There isn't a feeling like it.
Winterhawk1960
Congratulations. My first was just 4 years ago. What a wonderful feeling.
the first is memorable. My first was 19 years ago and I can still see that white fletched arrow in the air...
Cpongrats
Congratulations Ringneck! Pipe in with the story. :thumbsup: :clapper:
Congrats Shawn. Good doe.... Hunting in short sleeves.... gota love it
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congrats
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Well Done! :thumbsup:
First of many to come.
Nice doe! Congrats!!
Congrats!
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Nice! Congrats.
Nice Deer, Congratulations.
Butch L
Congrats
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C'mon Shawn, now is not the time to be lurking. Your accomplishment is now out of the bag. Way to go Buddy. Believe the story is a good one also so let the people have it.
Good job. I'm with everyone else...give us a story!
Good Job Shawn!!
I wonder what kind of knife was used to dress it?
I have a good idea, lol.
Congrats. I still remember my first trad deer.
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Thanks Tom for posting the pic of my first Trad deer! I have been out hunting and adding trad deer #2 and #3. Here are pics of the buck I shot Friday afternoon and the doe I took this morning. I'll post details in my next post.
Dang Shawn !!!!!!!! That's a freezer full you've got there. I'm curious......what bow are you carrying ???
Way to go....... :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Winterhawk1960
Hi Don. Thanks! Full freezers are good with two growing boys. I am shooting my Great Plains Rio Bravo "B" model one piece recurve. 54# at my draw.
Here he is ready to skin.
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Thank you all for the congrats!
Two weeks ago I went to western Kansas trying to get my first trad deer. I have been skunked for the last couple of years but it hasn't been for a lack of trying. I only hunt from the ground so that hasn't helped matters.
On the first deer I took with no blind while I was nestled against some cedar trees 10 yards off the intersection of two trails. Of course the deer came in down wind on the other trail and I wasn't expecting that. At 10 yards the deer paused and looked right through me while wearing my leafy suit. I let it go a few more yards and shot it quartering away. 60 Yards and I watched it drop.
The buck was taken this Friday and shot at 18 yards from my ground blind. I shot a little back farther than I would have liked so I backed out and waited for morning to come. It was a long night but I didn't want to push him and the temp was to get down to 29 degrees. The meat would be fine. As it turned out I didn't need to wait but better safe than sorry. The Zwickey Delta 4 blade had done it's job and the deer had died on the run.
With the buck in the freezer I was ready to fill my last doe tag. At about 8:30 AM a doe walked by the ground blind and looked right in at 10 feet. Needless to say I was a little startled as I wasn't expecting to see her that close! As soon as she put some distance between us and turned broadside I drew and released. The arrow zipped through her so fast I almost missed it. She went 25 yards and dropped. The Zwickey delta did it's magic again.
A beautiful trio of deer with a trad bow all taken from the ground. Add the wonderful sights, smells and sounds of being in the fall woods and it just doesn't get much better .
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Congradulations Shawn.
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Good job Shawn! :thumbsup:
Believe Shawn is getting his game together-and in the freezer. Good going, Buddy!! Good talking to you tonight, you always lift my spirits,bless you and yours.
Congratulations on the deer
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Nice job, Congratulations!!
That's stackin em up! Congrats!
:thumbsup: Congrats!
Thanks, guys! I'm just making up for a long dry spell with the 3 deer :) .
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