1st Buck with a bow!

uncledewey · October 2, 2009, 02:10 AM

I know it isn't much as far a 7 point might go, but being that it is my first buck with a bow, it might as well be a 20 point. Looks can be deceiving, 180 lbs. field dressed and as Uncle Ted says! Sweet back-straps tonight!

Dr. Strangelove · October 2, 2009, 02:50 AM

Congratulations! Great buck.

wpcexpert · October 2, 2009, 03:09 AM

Awesome kill brother. Great job.

taylorce1 · October 2, 2009, 07:29 AM

Any animal with a bow is a trophy for sure. Great Job!

ZeroJunk · October 2, 2009, 07:30 AM

Congrats. It's exciting at that distance. You had to do a lot of things right to get some meat that way.

2damnold4this · October 2, 2009, 07:45 AM

Congratulations!

Rangefinder · October 2, 2009, 09:35 AM

Looks like a good-eating, tasty buck to me---I go for the younger ones on purpose because you can't eat the antlers, and the young ones are always much better tasting. So, it looks like you've gotten yourself a GOOD one! Congrats on your first bow kill---that's awesome!

FrontSight · October 2, 2009, 10:07 AM

awesome!

rantingredneck · October 2, 2009, 10:26 AM

Congrats!

So far I've been skunked this season......glad to see someone's enticing them into bow range. They seem to want to hang out 60 yds from me and laugh

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koolminx · October 2, 2009, 11:09 AM

I'm not hunting yet this year because my dang old state only allows ONE DEER, not one per hunt as in a Bow, then one with Rifle then one with BP..

My last couple states I lived in you could take a dozen deer a year..

That is a FANTASTIC shot placement! Very nice for your first with a Bow!

What are you shooting? I use a Bear Longbow, and sometimes a Recurve.

hunter33 · October 2, 2009, 01:53 PM

Nice deer. I would like to try and take a deer with a bow some day.

shortwave · October 2, 2009, 06:13 PM

Aaaaggghhhh! Another hooked Ohioan bow hunter. Congrats Uncledewey

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simonkenton · October 2, 2009, 07:48 PM

Congratulations!
That is a Georgia-sized rack, ie, small, I have killed dozens of Ga. bucks with little racks like that.
But the deer is big! Very unusual to get a Georgia buck to field dress at 180.
Keep up the good work!

wyobohunter · October 3, 2009, 04:39 PM

Congrats, don't it feel great to put an arrow through yer food? Nice job.

Dr. A · October 5, 2009, 02:44 PM

Congratulations on the kill! There surely isn't anything like a real bow kill. Can you share the particulars? Bow, arrow, tip etc. (distance)? thanks,

rem870hunter · October 9, 2009, 07:50 PM

awesome job. very nice buck

. i just came back into bowhunting after a 10 year delay. we just had sunday bowhunting become legal here a few months ago. been seeing signs here and there. i can't wait to get me one with my bow.

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Can you share the particulars? Bow, arrow, tip etc. (distance)? thanks,

please do. i'm curious what was used.

uncledewey · October 9, 2009, 09:15 PM

Shot him at 25 yds. quartering away from me. Used a Magnus Snuffer SS, 100 gr. on a Carbon Express Maxima Hunter shaft. I was watching a pair of bucks about 250 yds on the other side of a soy bean field (5:30 PM) and out of the corner of my eye I saw movement. I had about 10 seconds to turn aim, I had one good fire lane and when he hit that I fired. Waited about 40 minutes before getting down from my ladder stand, found my arrow right off and it had good blood on it. I knew I had hit him right off because I heard that wonderful "thunk". Not a lot of blood, quartering away I only hit one lung and a little too high. He ended up laying down about 50 yds from where I shot him, and then went another 20 or so and was cemetary dead. Thanks for all the congrats guys. I usually take a doe first, but not even seeing a buck for 3 years I just had to take him down. I'm pleased though, like someone said, "you can't eat horns". I had some burgers today and they were great!

BIGR · October 9, 2009, 09:28 PM

Great job. Its not always the size that matters, but how you took it. You have done something that many people have never done, me included. Never used a bow in my life, but I will shoot the fire out of muzzle loaders and rifles. I wished I was skilled enough to take them with a bow. Generally its too hot during bow season and thats another reason why I have never took up bow hunting.

Kreyzhorse · October 10, 2009, 07:08 AM

Congrats on the your first bow kill and making it a nice buck!

In my book, any deer taken is a prize and you'll remember that buck for the rest of your life.

October 2, 2009, 03:09 AM	#3
wpcexpert Senior Member Join Date: February 29, 2008 Location: Central Arkansas Posts: 789	Awesome kill brother. Great job. __________________ When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. - Thomas Jefferson

October 2, 2009, 09:35 AM	#7
Rangefinder Senior Member Join Date: August 4, 2005 Posts: 1,916	Looks like a good-eating, tasty buck to me---I go for the younger ones on purpose because you can't eat the antlers, and the young ones are always much better tasting. So, it looks like you've gotten yourself a GOOD one! Congrats on your first bow kill---that's awesome! __________________ "Why is is called Common Sense when it seems so few actually possess it?" Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians.

October 2, 2009, 10:07 AM	#8
FrontSight Senior Member Join Date: September 9, 2005 Posts: 1,711	awesome! __________________ To kill something as great as a duck just to smell the gunpowder is a crime against nature. - Alan Liere Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw

October 2, 2009, 10:26 AM	#9
rantingredneck Senior Member Join Date: January 12, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,729	Congrats! So far I've been skunked this season......glad to see someone's enticing them into bow range. They seem to want to hang out 60 yds from me and laugh . __________________ NRA Member NC Hunter's Education Instructor PCCA Member (What's PCCA you ask? <- Check the link)

October 2, 2009, 01:53 PM	#11
hunter33 Senior Member Join Date: September 19, 2007 Location: oregon Posts: 289	Nice deer. I would like to try and take a deer with a bow some day. __________________ My information might not be helpful but just think of it as a bump

October 2, 2009, 02:50 AM	#2
Dr. Strangelove Senior Member Join Date: August 1, 2008 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 1,406	Congratulations! Great buck.

October 2, 2009, 07:29 AM	#4
taylorce1 Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2005 Location: Colorado Springs, CO & Lubbock, TX Posts: 4,706	Any animal with a bow is a trophy for sure. Great Job!

October 2, 2009, 07:30 AM	#5
ZeroJunk Senior Member Join Date: August 14, 2006 Location: Browns Summit NC Posts: 2,381	Congrats. It's exciting at that distance. You had to do a lot of things right to get some meat that way.

October 2, 2009, 07:45 AM	#6
2damnold4this Senior Member Join Date: August 12, 2009 Location: Athens, Georgia Posts: 1,031	Congratulations!

October 2, 2009, 11:09 AM	#10
koolminx Senior Member Join Date: January 12, 2009 Posts: 520	I'm not hunting yet this year because my dang old state only allows ONE DEER, not one per hunt as in a Bow, then one with Rifle then one with BP.. My last couple states I lived in you could take a dozen deer a year.. That is a FANTASTIC shot placement! Very nice for your first with a Bow! What are you shooting? I use a Bear Longbow, and sometimes a Recurve.

October 2, 2009, 06:13 PM	#12
shortwave Senior Member Join Date: December 17, 2007 Location: SOUTHEAST, OHIO Posts: 5,009	Aaaaggghhhh! Another hooked Ohioan bow hunter. Congrats Uncledewey.

October 2, 2009, 07:48 PM	#13
simonkenton Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2008 Posts: 891	Congratulations! That is a Georgia-sized rack, ie, small, I have killed dozens of Ga. bucks with little racks like that. But the deer is big! Very unusual to get a Georgia buck to field dress at 180. Keep up the good work!

October 3, 2009, 04:39 PM	#14
wyobohunter Senior Member Join Date: August 22, 2008 Location: Back in Wyoming Posts: 1,109	Heeeeeylll yeah! Congrats, don't it feel great to put an arrow through yer food? Nice job.

October 5, 2009, 02:44 PM	#15
Dr. A Senior Member Join Date: July 17, 2007 Location: Salina, KS. Posts: 174	Congratulations on the kill! There surely isn't anything like a real bow kill. Can you share the particulars? Bow, arrow, tip etc. (distance)? thanks, Last edited by Dr. A; October 5, 2009 at 03:17 PM.

October 9, 2009, 09:28 PM	#18
BIGR Senior Member Join Date: June 14, 2000 Location: Mountains Posts: 1,231	Great job. Its not always the size that matters, but how you took it. You have done something that many people have never done, me included. Never used a bow in my life, but I will shoot the fire out of muzzle loaders and rifles. I wished I was skilled enough to take them with a bow. Generally its too hot during bow season and thats another reason why I have never took up bow hunting.

October 10, 2009, 07:08 AM	#19
Kreyzhorse Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2006 Location: NKY Posts: 10,817	Congrats on the your first bow kill and making it a nice buck! In my book, any deer taken is a prize and you'll remember that buck for the rest of your life. __________________ "He who laughs last, laughs dead." Homer Simpson