How long for your first

[Ybuck]

0 for 1 here

[Dax]

I got mine on January 10th of 2009.  My first archery deer.  I sold my compound in '06--never got one with it....so it was my 3rd year exclusively with the longbow.  I missed my first on the ground with a longbow in '04...hunted with a rifle and compound in between before '06.  Now I don't own either a rifle or compound.  Hang in there....it will happen.

[Danny Rowan]

1969,started shooting bows when I was 15 which was 1965,first deer with a Ben Pearson cougar, nice 8 point in West Texas.
College and the Navy got in the way until 2001,couple of pigs and a Sambar deer here on Guam With an Elkridge longbow. Been after the Sambar ever since and have not had any luck yet.Have taken a couple of Whitetails in Texas and a few more pigs on Guam since then.

Danny

[Ia Hawkeye]

2nd year. First shot I ever took at a deer. 1965. Not many deer back then.

[frassettor]

Originally posted by vermonster13:
20 minutes into my first hunt with a borrowed Bear Kodiak TD. Fat doe that was a gift at 8 yards on the ground.

[Oregon Okie]

0 for 1 for me too. didn't even find any shots to miss last year but trying to scout harder this year during the "off season".

[Izzy]

1/2 hour.Lucky I guess.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I was a lucky one. My very first deer with bow was a PSE Wheelie thingy back in 2001. Then in 2005 I got my First deer with a Original 54" Shrew. Again on opening day for that season. The Great Spirit was looking out for me then and Honored me the Meat They had.

If You haven't gotten one Yet... Don't push it, Let it come to You. Trust me it will be well worth it..        WHAT A RUSH!!!!!!!!!!

[DV of WI]

2nd year. Button buck, very lucky it was. 7 arrows later I finally killed it. I would shoot over it and it would jump towrds me I would shoot under and it woud jump two steps away.

[Widowbender]

Missed a doe the first morning out...didn't hunt with a real bow again for eight years... made the switch to trad only and got a nice 8 pointer my first season and then a nice gobbler in my first turkey season...I'm lucky in that we have a healthy population of deer and turkeys, here...

David

[DBerrard]

Nothing last year..going into my second year now. Prolly won't hunt anything till Whitetails in November but I have my hopes up for year two.  

[Curveman]

3 years

[wissler]

It took 7 years for me to take my first. The picture of the buck is on my profile. Taken in 2003
(It didn't help that I set a "personal goal" of 8 points or better for my first)
According to my journal, I passed up 23 other smaller bucks (and blew countless attempts)

[Tim Fishell]

Way to long!!  But it is not the kill that makes the hunt for me.  I am still trying after my 14th season.  I missed my first buck with my bow this past season so I am getting closer.

[Don Stokes]

13 years for me, from 1963 to '76. In those early years deer were scarce. My first was a spike, taken with a Ben Pearson recurve. Talk about excited! I didn't touch the ground for days.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

My first season bowhunting for deer was in 1976. I killed my first deer in 1980. i didnt even get a shot for the first two years.

Last year I killed four deer. Either I have picked up some knowledge in the last 30 odd years or the deer have gotten dumber, Maybe a little of both?

[ron w]

Bought my first recurve in 1967, a Browning Stalker 52" 40# hunted on and off ever since, still have not killed a big game animal.1967 thru the 2008 season...do the math!!!!!

[Jeff Strubberg]

Was an idiot on my first season opening day.  Nice 120lb freezer doe stands broadside ten yards in front of my blind.  I'm sitting there at half draw wondering "Was that tag any deer or buck only?".

Apparently my ineptitude upset the gods of field and flood.  It was another five years before I bagged my first big game and fourteen before I got my first deer!

[john fletch]

First Archery hunt at 14 - first deer at 16 - first elk at 19 - first bear/pheasant and duck at 20.  Moved to Alaska in 1976 - could not get anything with bow there.  Seattle in 1986 - ditto.  Back home to Montana in 2006 -still trying.  Now 59 going on 60, will never give up.

[wollelybugger]

20 years, Wasn't many deer in my county when I started. When I could drive and hunt the mountains I couldn't hit anything. Shot my first deer,a six point, at six yards off the ground. It was self defense.