first deer!

[10132297]

Congratulations

[Chew]

Big congrats! Welcome to the club.

[UrbanBuck]

Congrats

[highfly]

awesome

[cva34]

It worked and you a bow hunter for life Congrats

[texan16]

Congrats, thats a big ol doe !!!!

[salth2o]

Congrats and here's to many more!

[kd350]

Congrats!

[11B]

I hear ya. This is my second season of not getting anything with a bow. It can be extremely frustrating at times. Half the time I really don't want to tell anyone I'm going because of the feeling of failure when I don't return with any kills/ The key is persistence, so kudos to you!

Man it really is frustrating. Like I said earlier I have eaten tag soup for the last 2 years. Doesn't help I started hunting way late so a lot of what I know I've either read or had to learn on my own. I shot a 8 point buck my first year and never found him. blood trail was **** near non existent so Im sure I shot too low and he lived. The next year I shot a doe and wasnt able to recover her due to her going onto private property and I had no way of contacting land owners. Than this year I started late (put a bow on layaway) and didnt get it until the middle of October. This was my third sit in the stand, and I have no idea how it happened. I got set up and finally in the stand about 10 minutes after sunrise, my stand was leaning downward so a good fart would have blown me 12 feet to the ground and I (thought) I was sticking out like a sore thumb because the tree I was in was bare and I didnt really have a lot of cover behind me. Somehow this doe had snuck up behind me about 45 yards away and she circled around and came up to my left and stopped behind a tree so I drew back and she stayed there for what felt like an eternity and then finally came out. I put the pin on her and let the arrow fly. Arrow hit and she took off like a bullet. I thought I heard her crash but decided to wait an hour because of previous experiences. I ended up finding her 60 yards from my tree. Once I started skinning her I saw that I had hit her right in the heart. So this kill was probably 30% me and 70% God. It happened all so fast and I still cant believe it really happened haha. Persistence definitely pays off. That and not overthinking it. Whole reason I picked the area to hunt was because I knew there was acorns all around me and I had seen trails so I said sure, this sounds like a good spot. No previous pictures or sightings to go off. Just basic knowledge of animals. They gotta eat and they gotta move to get to food.

[Let's go Brandon!]

I hear ya. This is my second season of not getting anything with a bow. It can be extremely frustrating at times. Half the time I really don't want to tell anyone I'm going because of the feeling of failure when I don't return with any kills/ The key is persistence, so kudos to you!

That's why we call it "hunting" instead of "killing."

[Lawhunter]

Congrats!

[11B]

That's why we call it "hunting" instead of "killing."

Thats the truth! Shoot if they gave awards for longest sits in a treestand without killing I'd be a contender for sure lol

[Abcdj]

Congrats!

[ShawnG]

Sweet!!

[CoolArrow]

Awesome. Congrats