Let's see a photo of your first deer.

ex wife had them, then lost them. I have the memories.

Also my first buck 1974. Browning Stalker recurve 49 lbs.

good pics any on the car hood. the good ol days

14yrs old..45# Redwing Recurve

10 years old

25# bow all fiberglass from K-mart of Sears

better picture

Not my first but he is my first with a recurve.

1st Bow kill. Martin Mamba 55# from the ground.

Cameras weren't invented yet.

1974 perhaps;

First was with a round wheel compound. I shot it instinctive. With a flipper II rest and plunger using a 3 finger leather glove. 2018 Easton arrow with a razor back 5 broad head. First with a Bear Kodiak magnum recurve and fiberglass arrow tipped with a Bear razor head was the spike pictured.

I don't have a picture of my first deer which was a doe I shot with a 1969 45# Bear Green Fox bow in 1971. But I do have a picture of my second deer (and first buck) I shot with a 1963 or 1964 45# Black Hawk Warrior recurve in 1973. I'm the kid on the left.

My first trad kill. I missed a bunch before I got lucky and shot this guy. Still my biggest trad buck after 6 seasons shooting longbows and recurves only.

First with traditional bow

It was in 72 and I have no idea where that photo is. LOL

Actually shot 2 that day from the ground sitting on a stool.

Here is the other one.

1972 about three weeks before Army basic training

1972 about three weeks before Army basic training

First deer, 1985. Clare, Michigan

First Longbow buck October 2nd 1994. Killed many with a compound and guns before this one. I killed this buck on the very first day that I took a longbow into the woods. Original LaClaire Shrew, 61# 28" 56" amo.

Sorry not a deer. But one of my Earliest big game with a stick bow. The earliest one I have on my phone. My deer is a paper picture at home.

47# Kodiak #8 micro flight arrow black panther broadhead

My very first and only one . . . DEAR!

Two Flints

I believe 1965, from the ground, 43#, POC arrow with Bear Razorheads.

Sorry forgot picture.

1989, I was 12

I didn't even have a camera in 1967. I do have a photo of my first buck in 1972 that my mom-in-law took. That photo is in my scrapbook. I may have that photo on my laptop so I'll check later tonight. It was a monster 3 point ;).

1969 at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. 43# Bear Grizzly and Bear Microflight arrows.

Divorce took care of all my early pictures. It was a little spike that was sparing with a little 4pt. They fought under my stand. The spike made the mistake of standing still to long. Didn't think much of all my pictures back then. Now that I am older I wish I had those reminders of my memories.

How I wish I had taken a few more pictures of that little buck. I have one of it hanging. If you got caught in APG with a camera you'd lose your privileges for life.

One of the places I was stationed at as a U.S. Army military policeman was Aberdeen Proving Grounds. There were very strict rules to hunt there. There were some nice bucks running around on Aberdeen and the Edgewood Arsenal areas.

Here is my first with trad gear. Not first deer ever but didn’t take pics of my first which was with a gun.

You can’t even see his rack against the predator fall brown camo lol

"One of the places I was stationed at as a U.S. Army military policeman was Aberdeen Proving Grounds. There were very strict rules to hunt there. There were some nice bucks running around on Aberdeen and the Edgewood Arsenal areas. "

Frank, when were you there? Strict rules were the norm. We had to have a sponsor who was stationed there or worked there as a civilian. We had to take a safety course, then sign a waiver that the gov't wasn't responsible if you got blown up stepping of unexploded ordinance. Then we had to pass an equipment check and shooting test. We had to have our names written in paint between the fletching. You also had to hunt with your sponsor. The deer had big racks but not especially large bodies. I did kill a 3 legged deer once. We also duck hunted on post for years.

reddogge I was there 1987 and 1988.

My first...Nov.5, 1968. I remember I made it home in time to vote in my first eligible election.

Back in those days it was a really big deal to shoot a deer with a bow and arrow. I was really proud of that little bugger!

Bernie

That would have been in the mid 60's and we were too poor to own a camera. I was lucky just to have clothes and food on the table.

My first year of bowhunting was in 1981. I was 23. Hunted 3 states that year. Colorado for elk, Missouri for deer and my home state of Iowa. I had never hunted big game before. Killed my first deer in Missouri, a button buck. Used a 50lb Bear Grizzly with aluminum arrow and Savona 3 blade head. I was pretty excited.

That's supposed to say Savora.

1980 with a muzzleloader. Took me 5 years to get that first deer and the next season,1981 I got my first deer with my Kmag that dad bought me back in 76.

My first. Circa 1970 I was 16 yrs old Hopefully its not sideways!

Great vintage photos everyone, keep them coming.

First deer with a bow. Howatt Hunter, #55; 28 paces while still-hunting through a bedding area. Circa 1996…

#110 pack-out. Oof. Not doin’ THAT again!

Recent pic: he’s out in tbe garage in the Rogues’ Gallery….

Oldest picture I could find. Not my first but I'd guess early 70's

1st was a spike in 1966, w/ a Red Wing Hunter, no one took pics back then.

Been bowhunting 31 years, shot a bunch of deer with wheels but Sunday 12/4/2022 was my first deer since going traditional only in 2016. 10 yard shot from a ground blind, had my best friends during the recovery and the whole process which just magnified the whole experience for me

Bear B mag takedown (60” and 38#)

Cedar arrow from Gray Wing arrows

Vintage Bear razorhead

Frank (Nemo), I bought my lab in '83 and we sort of gravitated to duck and waterfowl by the time you were there. We body booted on the flats but did a lot of hunting out of my boat blind on the Proving Ground, Mosquito Creek, Carroll Island, Carpenters Point, The Narrows, etc.

My first trad. harvest was in 1980 (15 y.o.a), Quehanna Wild Area, Elk Co. PA with a Bear Grizzly.

My first deer with a bow 1987 I think.

I broke my nice custom bow just 3 days before my hunt in south Texas brush country.

A friend loaned me a similar bow 70# Howatt Hunter.

1971...4finger

actually, my second deer -1969- with a k-mag and herters arrows, bear razorhead. no picture of my first which was 7 pointer,same setup. my first and second daughter are also with their 27 yr old dad. hunting along whitebreast creek just west of knoxville iowa. still some of the best whitetail hunting anywhere and still is! had a lot of adventures in this area including seeing my first ever mt. lion.

My first deer, Western Nebraska on public land when I was 13. Shot him with a 44# browning wasp I borrowed from my grandfather (it was kind of the family floater/backup bow). My tapered ash shafts tipped with a zwickey eskimo zipped right through him while he was browsing in 2ft tall river bottom grass. He reacted to the sound of the arrow hitting the leaves but then just went back to grazing! I watched in disbelief as he went back to eating while blood spurted out of him for maybe 15 seconds or so till he started to stumble and fell over dead a mere 3 steps from where I shot him. I haven't seen anything like that happen after a shot since.

This is my first Buck, but with a compound in 1993.

I'm so old it pre-dated cellphones and cameras, digital or otherwise, and probably electricity. But there is a petroglyph in a remote cave in the Appalachian Blue Ridge...I could tell you the location, but I'd have to kill you!

I wish I had a picture, but I don't think I even owned a camera back then. It was a doe, at about 3 yards from the base of the tree I was in. I was about 8 maybe 10ft high in a copy of the old Baker Climbing tree stand, which I had just built and hung in the tree, the day before.

I was shooting a Bear 60# Compound with a 2016 Easton Gamegetter arrow, tipped with a 3 bladed Wasp. The deer ran about 40 yards and I heard it crash, but out of sight, and I could have killed a second one, but I was worried about finding the first one, since it was out of sight. But I remember that I walked right to it. Easy find. I do remember that killing a deer with a bow was noteworthy back then, and I didn't personally know a single soul that had bagged one with a bow at that time.

This is my first archery deer.

Well maybe this year!

I think this one was my second. I know it was early on. Because I haven’t looked this young in quite some time. ;) mid 20’s

Bottom left mount was my first Bowkill in 1978, Had shot 2 other Big ones with rifle (first with Rifle was a B&C) in the year prior to that one.

1st trad kill 2002. Fedora 560 takedown 51 @ 29 2016 shaft, Muzzy Phantom 2 blade.

1978. 17 years old shooting Howard Hill Tembo and Easton Autumn Orange arrows.

Not my first deer, but probably the first with a recurve. Late ‘90s ? Ben Pearson Stallion, cedar with Bear Razorhead.

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