From: Hookedspur
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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What bow did did you take your first critter with??? Old pictures would be great too!! This summers been Looong and I need something to keep me occupied til Denton!!
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From: Will tell
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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63 pound Hill longbow, nice 6 point killed off the ground at 6 yards.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Only 4 days till Denton. ) Forty pound Sears recurve by Ben Pearson in 1967. Shot a doe with that one...and I was balanced on a tree limb next to a field. I didn't even own a camera then.
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1967, hunting from a ground blind, took a doe with a Bear recurve.
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From: YH2268
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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My first critter was a ground hog shot with a 50lb Wing Chaparral in 1972 or 73. Shot my first deer with that same bow in October 1973 using a cedar arrow and a 3 blade Arrow-mate broadhead, a complete pass-though. I still have that arrow with deer tags attached and still have that Wing Chaparral.
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From: Candyman
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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45# Bear super Kodiak. My tree stand was a board nailed in the crook of a tree about eight feet off of the ground. It was at the end of an evening hunt and my buddy was coming to meet me so that we could walk out together. I gave him a wave to stop where he was and after a few minutes the deer walked down closer to me and he watched me shoot my first deer. That was pretty cool. No pics. back then though.
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From: Pdiddly
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Forkhorn in 1990 with a 50# 1969 Super Kodiak...20 yards from a tree stand.
Used a three blade Savora and a 2213 shaft, a combo that I would never dream of using now!! Learned a great deal since then. Never took a picture.
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From: Hookedspur
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Ha!! Yep George, I'm chomping at the bit. I'm driving out early Friday morning.
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From: Tlhbow
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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No really an old timer yet but a doe around 25 yards or so on the ground working out an old homestead. Using a bear polar compound. around 79' or 80'. First recurve deer was in 91' at 19 yards using a 60 pound bear take down Hunter zwickey broadheah. Never been to Denton hill but talking to a member of our club is going over there. Good luck to all,
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From: Hookedspur
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Well, I don't consider myself an old timer either, but my first recurve kill was a four takin in '91 with a Hoyt Hunt Master TD Easton 2117 and a Satellite head.
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From: Iowacedarshooter
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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nov. 12 1968, bear k-mag ,herters farbenglas arrow, bear razorhead, a 7 pt. buck at 30 yds, he went down in about 10 seconds with a double lung hit. 26 years old... just a kid yet!
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From: JamesV
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1967 doe shot from the ground, Pearson Falcon?? recurve, wood arrow, I had just bought this bow a few days before at the Pearson outlet store and the deer was shot about a mile and a half from the store.
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From: reddogge
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Small 5 pointer in 1969, 43# 1967 Bear Grizzly and Bear Microflight arrows with Bear Razorheads.
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From: mangonboat
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Got my first critter, a fox squirrel, with a Bear Golden Bear solid fiberglass recurve, 25#, in 1965. I was 9 years old.
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From: mangonboat
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Thinking back, I couldn't understand at the time why they named a bow after Jack Nicklaus..
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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My first was a doe with a 45# Bear Green Fox in 1971, I was 12 years old. . My first buck was a 9 point with a 45# Black Hawk recurve in 1973, I was 14 years old. Here is a picture of me and my Dad with my first archery buck.
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From: S. North
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Always wished I'd taken pictures years ago. Took a movie and elk in 70 had no idea we were suppose to shoot heavy poundage 38 #. Wood arrows two blade head with bleeders. First critters too. Now days I'd probably get stoned for that. Lol
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From: Oldbowyer
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Button buck in 1977 with a 60" recurve my Dad built 36@28", shooting cedars with a Dead Heads. Dad had made the arrows also
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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I really don't remember.
Different old bows, at different time, but it was probably a rat in a cactus patch with something of my own making. Something very crude of my own making I might add.
First game animal was a spring gobbler with a 58" / 45# Shakespeare Wonder Bow, 1984 I believe.
First deer (a doe) the following year with a 64" / 77# Jay Weathers recurve.
Rick
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From: David McLendon
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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First Critter was a squirrel taken with a 1958 Bear Panda that I still have, first deer was with a Ben Pearson Colt.
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From: M60gunner
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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My first critter was a cotton tail rabbit. I think I was 13 or 14 years old. Did the deed with an Indian Archery 35# Lemonwood straight bow. I lived in the city, deer were something we saw in the zoo.
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From: Lefty
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Bear Kodiak Hunter - Doe in 1975. Game Getter shaft Bear Broadhead. Wish I had a camera then.
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From: Andy Man
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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posted this before; 1963 , was 10 years old shot with a 25# all fiberglass bow with a rubber grip, 5&10 arrows that mom put a recycled indian point on from one found in the fields -re-sharpened on a grinder
shot in a creek bottom behind the farm house-only one I ever had mounted (mom had it done for me -I was too little to get it out and guy on the next farm over had to drag it for me
remember was sitting under a laurel bush near the creek and the shot worked -maybe 10 yards at the most- fell with in sight going up the hill from the creek
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From: Longbeard
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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PA 8 point, opening morning of 1975. 45# Shakespeare Necedah, POC shaft and Bear razorhead.
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From: Ron LaClair
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1961 with a Bear Kodiak Special, 66" 60#@ 28". Sitting on the ground on my butt, shot with bow canted horizontally, 12 yard shot.
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From: mnbwhtr
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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The first one arrowed 1966 Bear kodiak #47 #8 micro flights
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Dad saved me a 69 Bear Kodiak Hunter from the archery shop when he closed the doors. Gave it to me as a gift when I got home from the Marines in Oct of 69. Shot a doe with it that fall. In honor to my dad I hunted with that same bow and shot a bear with it last fall.
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From: Burly
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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First critter I took with a bow was a skunk. I got it with my first bow wich was a old 62 -63 bear grizzly or Kodiak I can't remember wich it was. But I was around 10 years old. No pics.
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From: Beacon
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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2014 first deer w/Bear Kodiak Magnum 55 lbs. Bear broadhead - spine shot / forgot to "pick my spot" ... take 'luck' anyday !
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From: arlone
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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First "critter" was a wood chuck taken with a 40# solid glass Pearson bow in 1967?? Think it was called a "Jet" and was ordered from the Wards catalog a few years before. First deer was a doe shot with a Bear Kodiak Hunter 48# bought in 1970 and shot the doe in '71.
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From: Bjrogg
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Love to hear the old hunting stories. Guess I haven't been at this long enough to tell mine.
Jon I remember that story about the bear hunt I honor of your dad. It's a good one.
Bjrogg
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From: Beacon
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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2015 second recurve deer; double-lung shot ... Movin' on up (best one yet) !!
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From: Bowhunter
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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October 2, 1955. Three point buck with a Bear Recurve and Bear Razorhead. I was 12 yrs old. Still have half of that arrow.
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From: Bowcrazytw
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Though I don't consider myself an " old timer" I often feel north of 100 years old... First trad kill was with a Fedora 560 takedown about 20 years ago. I had just attached my climber to the tree when I noticed a sapling swaying a little more than a breeze would cause. To my surprise there was a little forked horn raking his antlers on it. I crouched down to watch and low and behold, he walked right to me and I ended up with a broadside shot from the ground at no more than 10 yards.
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From: Sipsey River
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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No pictures, ground hog, 55# Kodiak Mag. Microflight arrows, MA3 broadhead.
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From: muley40
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1973 shot my 1st whitetail with Wing Redwing Hunter 45# Micro- shaft arrow and M-A3 broadhead got my picture in local news paper in the sports section had couple clipping of that picture but had all my hunting gear plus my scrapbooks stored down in the basement and they got ruined when we had some flooding back in 1975.
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From: StikBow
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1958ish. A blue jay in a neighbor’s plumb orchard-at his requests. A Hoyt kids longbow that had a fiberglass splinter lifting that Mr Hoyt sold me for $1.75. I fixed the sliver with medical tape-wish i still had that bow
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From: RonG
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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I shot one of my uncles bantam hens, I didn't get punished we had it for lunch. He said he was going to get rid of them anyway because they would attack him everytime he went into the garden.
I used a piece of birch for the bow with bailing twine for the string and our next door neighbor made me a couple arrows, he took me Pheasant hunting, I didn't hit anything.
I was ten in 1956
We later moved to Florida and my hunting was mostly Squirrels, Rabbits, Fish and an occasional Hog.
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From: RonG
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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I shot one of my uncles bantam hens, I didn't get punished we had it for lunch. He said he was going to get rid of them anyway because they would attack him everytime he went into the garden.
I used a piece of birch for the bow with bailing twine for the string and our next door neighbor made me a couple arrows, he took me Pheasant hunting, I didn't hit anything.
I was ten in 1956
We later moved to Florida and my hunting was mostly Squirrels, Rabbits, Fish and an occasional Hog.
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From: carpenter
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1970,45# Bear Grizzly,6 point white tail!
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From: marc of PAW
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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I'm 80 so I'm really not an old timer but it was 1958 I got a Pa doe with my 60# Paul Bunyon all glass that jared the teeth on every shot. It's hard to believe that I continued in archery after learning with that bow.
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From: 2 bears
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Hog with a 44 pound Howatt Super D. >>>----. Ken
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From: greyrider
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Took a groundhog in 1969 with a green fiberglass Shakespeare bow I was 10 years old. By the way who you calling Old.
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From: KyPhil
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1985ish. Fox squirrel with 45lb pearson green fiberglass recurve. I was real proud og that one.
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From: ottertails
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1967. Hunting railroad tracks in the city, I let loose on a cottontail, shot was way off, ricochet off the rail, a rock and skewered the bunny. Had bunny fever I guess ;) Bow was my Pearson fibreglass longbow, I was 9 years old.
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From: Travis Gregory
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Mine was in 2014. A 10pt whitetail with a 52lb J.k. Traditions Kanati longbow.
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From: casekiska
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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First deer ever for me,...September 1964, Jackson Co., WI, Bear Kodial Magnum bow, 45#, Bear Razorhead 4-blade, wood shaft arrow, 8 pt. buck...probably 12 - 13" spread, dressed weight about 120#.
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From: stagetek
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Sept. 21, 1968. 3pt buck. '68 Bear Super Kodiak 44#, wood arrow, Bear Razorhead. Remember it like it was yesterday. I was 16 !
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From: Nrthernrebel05
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Oct 30 1972 small 5 point. 39# Indian recurve Bear Razorhead, Bear Wood arrows. From the ground about 8 yards. I was 21. I killed my second one, a 6 point, Oct 31, 1973 from the same spot using the same equipment.
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From: 3Ditional
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1968, Feral ewe. 54" 50# York Thunderbolt recurve. Bow is now a wall hanger.
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From: sir misalots
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Well I hate to admit it but but as a kid it was a bird (killdeer) with an old fiberglass bow that may have been strung backwards.LOL But it was a heck of a shot anyway.
My first deer was with a compound in PA when we lived there. was my first time bowhunting with a compound. shot a 5 point. Thought I was the man.
I remember coming home to Ohio to visit dad and showing him the picture. He was amazed and I think he was proud.
I started my archery journey kinda backwards. Had kids bows when I was 8-10 Then when I was 26 bought a crossbow (never shot an animal, passed on a few though) Then I got a PSE compound and killed a few deer with it. Then 16 years ago I switched to traditional and killed a button buck 2 or three years in. since then I havent killed anything, but time. But Ive missed a few:)
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From: Bowguy
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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I don’t consider myself an old timer but I guess I might be getting there. I actually can’t remember the bow used. (Memory loss from surgery) I do remember the deer. Only one I remember clearly was around 2000. My first deer was around 1980, 20 years memory loss, ugh.
I had very recently gotten the bow and my than 4 year old daughter kept asking if I used it. This night was the first time I carried it. It was a Widow and I was walking in about to tie to a haul line. A doe stepped into a clearing, vitals framed by trees. The shot was anti climatic and true. My daughter rushed home and asked to see deer. She than asked “where are the horns?” A week later I was skinning bears. Knew deer would be in a freshly cut cornfield. I ran down the road to the farm still stinking of bear grease. It was like 4:35 or something when I got up and looked at my watch. I saw a rack buck at 15 yards. I shot him and he crashed into a power line. It was still 4:35. One lucky bow, 2 minutes perhaps hunt time on it and 2 dead deer. I’m sorry I can’t remember bow used on first one
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From: bone-head
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Ben Pearson American 45#@28".Year was 1972
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From: Babbling Bob
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Ain't an old timer yet, but my first critter getter was a 1962, 48lb, Bear Kodiak Magnum. Swamp rabbits in Atoka, OK. Port orford cedars, dipped right red, with yellow fletching, and $4 a dozen Bodkin three blade broadheads. Shot off the shelf then but a few years later put on a fancy brush rest after I saw a friend make one for his black painted riser Black Widow.
Farmers would let you on their property then for the asking and most thought we were crazy to hunt with bows. Once when hunting, a person in our archery club long with us showed his NFAA membership card to a farmer, which had a $500 insurance policy with it for property damage (as a NFAA member benefit). That would have bought a calf and a used old-smoking F100 pickup to go get him with.
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From: Orion
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Pretty sure I was shooting a Wing Thunderbird back then, or perhaps a Bear Magnum with a twisted upper limb. First deer was a fork horn. No pix. That was more than 50 years ago, and I didn't have a camera. Couldn't afford a bow/arrows AND a camera.
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From: StickandString
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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My first was a cottontail rabbit with a Paul Bunyan fiberglass bow. It was 1964 and I was 12. My first deer was a doe in 1776 using a Browning Nomad Stalker, 52 inch bow, 45 @ 28 using Bear cedar arrows and Bear Razorheads. I had been bow hunting for deer for 5 years before I got the first.
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From: Silverback
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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First traditional kill was with a Jeffrey's royal hunter. Shot was 16 yards through the heart. First shot I ever took at a deer with a recurve.
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From: Beacon
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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stickandstring you are an old timer, shooting a doe in 1776 ,that is a funny typo lol
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From: Traxx
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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1976,,with a selfbow,my grandad made 20 some years before i was born..
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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Bear KH and bear arrows and broad heads a doe first then a buck that year 30 yards I thought on doe then 15 yards on buck on the ground.
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From: Hunter66
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Date: 22-Jul-18 |
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My first was an old feral house cat lucking around our chickens...think I was about 10 and was shooting a 25# bear recurve...
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From: shade mt
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Date: 23-Jul-18 |
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small game up until 1980, when I got a little 6 pt. had shot a couple deer before that with a rifle. But that 1st buck with a bow turned me into a bonified bowhunter.
This fall will be 41 yrs since I began bowhunting and 38 yrs since that first buck with a bow.
Its rare these days to not kill 1 or more deer with my bow each fall.
If there is one regret...it is that routine success, has dulled my excitement. I still love it, and its my passion. But I'd love to get those buck fever jitters, when I draw my bow back on a deer, like I did back in the late 70's early 80's.
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From: Troy butler
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Date: 23-Jul-18 |
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in 1992 with a dan quillian canebreak 66#. no pic
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From: Live2hunt
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Date: 23-Jul-18 |
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First bow kill deer was a fork horn with my Precision Sizzler compound in 79. Alot of small critters with sticks/strings and recurves from the late 60's to that point have fallen. Here is my first deer and second deer with a recurve. 2016, doe first then rattled in the 8 1/2 hour later. I had this pic on another thread also.
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From: reddogge
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Date: 24-Jul-18 |
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Oh, the first critter. Then it would have to be the very unlucky squirrel that was sitting on a log and took a field tipped woodie through the eye from that 43# Bear Grizzly in 1967.
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 24-Jul-18 |
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It was either a bull frog, or a rabbit, with a friends longbow. Around 1960.
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From: wingman
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Date: 24-Jul-18 |
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Would have been a rabbit with a Ben Pearson Javalina which was 45#s. That was 1965.
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From: todd
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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My first bow harvest was in 1979, I was using my grandfather's Bear Kodiak Magnum 50#. No one in my family, knew anything about archery, my grandfather and few great uncles had bows they bought, they shot a few and said "this is tough" and hung on nails. So, when I got to visit I was allowed to shoot, only lost 2 arrows (these was original Bear Micro arrows to). Few months later, grandpa and his brother was visiting, as I was shooting the bow, and one mentioned it was squirrel season and said "why don't you go down back and bring one back". I looked at grandpa and he said sure, as I turned as Hercules heading off to his 12 labors, I know now that laughter I heard, was them at me, thinking no way it would happen. Well, about hour later, I walked up the hill from the tree's, to my grandfather. I said "I have good new and bad", Grandpa said "always bad news first", I said "I broke one of your arrows", as they looked my way, "but I got a squirrel". I found out later learning how to clean it, that this was the first bow harvest, with the exception of one great uncle. That was it, I was hooked, I still have the zwickey broadhead.
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From: Kelly
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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Ben Pearson Cougar, 42#, cedar arrows with Bear Razorhead, 1965.
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From: Roadrunner
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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1967 Shakespeare Kaibab. Kill made in '68.
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From: larryhatfield
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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1954, 20 years old, with a Howatt yew self bow with sinew backing that weighed somewhere north of 100#. Damon gave it to me because I could string and pull it. Mule deer buck during rifle season, which was the only game in town around home then. Last was with a 42# Howatt Venom last fall, 83 years old. A sleeping bear at 10 feet. Been watching a bears track all summer that I will kill this fall. Have to ride a horse a little closer to where the bear is kegged up these days. Whatever works.
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From: ahunter55
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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B/4 Illinois 1st Deer season (1957) I managed a lot of small game. 1st ever Deer season I missed 4 shots at Deer & in 1958 I arrowed my 1st,opening weekend Oct 4th with my 1st shot, a yearling Doe at 35 yds with a 64", 45# Eddingings Cadet. My Wood arrow tipped with a MA3 blade was a complete pass thru double lung & she crashed about 30 yds away. 62 bowhunting years later I have been blessed with many bowhunting adventures & a wide variety of biggame (still going strong). This is the only photo of that Deer. The bow hangs in my sons home.
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From: ahunter55
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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better pic of the bow. Wish I still had that quiver.
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From: Ovilla Bill
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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Wing Thunderbird, 45@28, 62" long in 1970. Micro flite arrow with Bear Razorhead.
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From: Nemophilist
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Date: 29-Jul-18 |
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Love the pictures. Pictures are worth a thousand words.
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From: hookman
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Date: 30-Jul-18 |
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9 point 182. Lb field dressed in 1969 with a Wing Thunderbird 54#. I was 17.
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From: soap creek
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Date: 30-Jul-18 |
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Shot a cow elk in 1981, with a Browning recurve, folding hunter model 60in 55lb. First big game animal with any kind of weapon.
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