How long for your first

GRAYBEARD · March 17, 2009, 11:08:00 AM

I'M LIKE RON W. MAYBE WORSE CAUSE I MORTALLY HIT A BUCK TWO YEARS AGO BUT DID NOT RECOVER IT. RAIN WASHED OUT THE BLOOD TRAIL. HAVE TAKEN SQUIRREL AND RACCOONS. GONE HOGGGIN' THIS FALL, MAYBE WILL BREAK THE JINX. LOVE TO WATCH THE ARROW FLY.

Robhood23 · March 17, 2009, 04:52:00 PM

1st season with trad I took a bear and 2 deer!

firecapt186 · March 18, 2009, 12:01:00 AM

Killed a deer on my second hunt with trad gear. Missed one on my first hunt, the day before I killed.

vtmtnman · March 18, 2009, 05:34:00 AM

Started around 9...didn't connect till 24.

I shot at so many deer with that recurve it ain't funny.The same bow I shoot today.It lived in the closet for a little while till she came back out.

I CAN tell you with a certainty if there was a trad gang around then I'd have actually learned things the CORRECT way and shot alot more deer.

swp · March 18, 2009, 07:34:00 AM

11 months. I am in my 5th year for a turkey though.

buckeye_hunter · March 18, 2009, 07:44:00 AM

Still haven't gotten my first trad deer. It has been 4 years, but not due to lack of chances. ALL due to my mistakes.

-Charlie

BRONZ · March 18, 2009, 08:28:00 AM

Whitetail 3 yrs
Turkey 5 yrs

Frenchy · March 18, 2009, 08:59:00 AM

5 years !
My first big game was a male roe deer (four points)

justin ammons · March 18, 2009, 09:10:00 AM

started hunting trad when i was 16 and got my first 2 bucks when i was 29. it was a long dry spell and well worth the wait.

ron w · March 18, 2009, 05:37:00 PM

Reading all these tales make me think I need a new place to hunt where there is more game.I notice that alot of the really sucsessful hunters are not hunting in upstate N.Y. Down state yes, up state no.

vtmtnman · March 18, 2009, 08:46:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
Reading all these tales make me think I need a new place to hunt where there is more game.I notice that alot of the really sucsessful hunters are not hunting in upstate N.Y. Down state yes, up state no.

Tell me about it...the deer difference between washington county and Westchester county is unreal(Horns and population wise)... :eek:

GrnMtnTradNut · March 19, 2009, 08:12:00 AM

2008 was my first year trad only, I took 2 bucks a 4pt in NH and a doe and my second best buck with a bow here in Vt a 8pt. Passed up over 20 bucks on Ohio, I was a little to picky.

MI_Bowhunter · March 19, 2009, 08:28:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by Wannabe1:
Been hunting since I was 14, now 40 and still waiting!

Same here except I started when I was 16. Only the last 4 years were with trad gear.

Jerry Jeffer · March 19, 2009, 08:34:00 AM

First time deer hunting alone, I got a spike.

JoeM · March 19, 2009, 01:02:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by vtmtnman:

QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
Reading all these tales make me think I need a new place to hunt where there is more game.I notice that alot of the really sucsessful hunters are not hunting in upstate N.Y. Down state yes, up state no.
Tell me about it...the deer difference between washington county and Westchester county is unreal(Horns and population wise)... :eek: [/b]

I hunted Washington County in my teens and early twenties. Took your typical basket rack sixes and four points. Somewhere around 1999 I started hunting Westchester and saw bigger deer but still did not take anything of size. Westchester started to really get hammered about the time I discovered it and now is a shell of it old self. I now hunt my home county, a little in the Catskills, and some near Binghamton. Joe

unclewhit · March 19, 2009, 01:16:00 PM

It took me 3 seasons of tag soup to finaly connect on my first big game animal. A cow elk at approx. 12 yards, I was able to stalk up to her in her bed, she ran about 20 yards turned to face me and she fell before I could nock another arrow.

Wary Buck · March 19, 2009, 02:09:00 PM

With a rifle, it was my second year before I got a shot. About age 14 ('77), a dink 3x3 at 125 yards with an iron-sighted 30-30. Dropped him in his tracks.

With a bow, just my fourth hunt ('81) before a little 3x4 whitetail wandered by and I double lunged him. I was 18 at the time. That said, I'd been around hunting all my life and had rifle hunted before so I wasn't a complete rookie.

First traditional bow kill was Oct. 25 of '88, my first season with a Schafer Silvertip. Passed up a number of them before a nice 4x5 obliged my Zwickey-tipped arrow.

jcarter · March 19, 2009, 05:17:00 PM

It was my first time out with trad gear and had been in the stand less than an hour before I took my a doe!

Joseph · March 20, 2009, 01:04:00 AM

My first with a compound was opening day of archery season when I was 14 years old, made the statement "I don't see what is so hard about bowhunting?" Next bow killed deer was six years of hunting later and was my first deer killed with a traditional bow although back then it was just called a recurve.

Joseph

Roy Steele · March 20, 2009, 11:18:00 AM

It took me 2 years to kill my first buck with a compound.8 years later I was up to 7 more bucks.I switshed to a recurve for 5 years and killed 7 more bucks.
I started building selfbows 18 years ago and have killed 33 bucks with my own bows.
Thats not counting 35 bucks with a rifle and 14 with a muzzleloader.