My first Trad deer!
NW Arkansas
Martin Savanah 55@28" (49lb@26")
Magnus Stinger 125 4-blade

 

   

Congrats!!!    What was your setup??


Bill

Sweet, but C'mon.... what the story???

That one side sure is perty to bad the other side isn't like that either way sure is a nice deer....Congrats!!

Very nice!! Congradulations.

WOW that's one heck a of a great first traditional deer! Congratulations he is a beauty!

Congrats great job!!!  

great deer!  Congrats!  Tell us the story, how'd you shoot him, where'd you shoot him, what happened after the shot, all the goods  

Congrats.....  

Story: I was hunting a ridge top of hardwoods that runs behind a new very high-end housing development.  On a previous morning I saw two younger bucks work the same scrape about 20 yards from my stand as they were showing off for the ladies in the area.  I was sinning and carrying my compound that morning, so I decided that either of those young bucks would be a trophy with my longbow.  I returned the next weekend on a Saturday morning 10/25/09 carrying the "right" bow.  The buck pictured above showed up and worked the licking branch above the scrape I saw the other two bucks work the previous weekend.  I had not seen this buck before and I quickly decided that if he gave me a shot with my longbow, I would take it.  He stepped out from the scrape broadside at 20 yards and I decided since I was pretty excited, I could make a bad shot at that distance.  I rolled the dice and waited to see if he would walk under me as most the deer that came through there had before.  As luck would have it, he walked directly under my stand.  I let him get to 10 yards past me and he turned giving me a quartering away shot.  I let her fly and struck him high, a spine shot dropped him right there.  I quickly placed a second arrow in the lungs while he was down.  He gave up the ghost in less than a minute, which made me feel better about the first shot that was high.  I'm pretty proud of him.  It was a good hunt.

Many happy returns of the day to you!

Congratulations...very cool!

Nice deer!  That is a heck of a start on the traditional path    
Great picture too!

Thats a dandy.   Congrads !!!

Well done and grats!

 

Very nice!!

Great job and the smile says it all, way to go and good for you.

Looks like another compound will be up for sale soon!  

Congrats. Fine first buck with trad gear! Any deer with a stick is a good trophy!

You watch many Primos older videos and they replay many shots in slow motion to show how much a deer might drop at the sound of the release or the arrow flight... You may have been dead on with your "spot" when you released, but if he heard anything at all...they can drop a long way till the arrow shows up!

Congrats! That'll be some dandy eatin!