Smitty19
New member
After six years of hunting for big game i finally gat a deer, even though it was a doe. I have always hunted with a rifle until this year when I decided to start bow hunting.
Sorry this story is a little late. I just registered this month. I actually shot my deer the 2nd of Sept.
My friend and I went out the night before and spotted two huge does right as it was starting to get dark. With it being my first time looking at a animal that I could shoot I was so nervous. we got to with in 23 yards of the biggest one. It looked alot more like 30 35 yards to me and my friend. we couldn't decide so I passed up the shot. I didn't want to take a chance at wounding the animal. we were staying at our cabin in McCall, so we got up the next morning and went waterskiing (rough hunting Huh?) anyway the wind started picking up about two so we decided to go hunting for the rest of the afternoon. we hadn't been hunting for more than five minutes when we ran into a doe that was bedded down. She spotted us, got up and started Walking away. we carefully parrelled her for about another ten minutes. then she completely stoppped and started eating. I snuck to with in twenty yards of her. She was face directly away with her head in a bush. I whistled so she would turn broadside, nothing happened, I did it again, nothing happened. Finally I yelled HEY! she turned looked at me. I could barely hold my bow steady I was shaking so bad. I let arrow fly. It hit her behind the shoulder. a little high of where I wanted it, but it was effective. she never ran, she kind of walked away from us then back at us and layed down ten yards from where I was standing. I have never been so excited.
I have some pics that I am trying to get put on disk
Sorry this story is a little late. I just registered this month. I actually shot my deer the 2nd of Sept.
My friend and I went out the night before and spotted two huge does right as it was starting to get dark. With it being my first time looking at a animal that I could shoot I was so nervous. we got to with in 23 yards of the biggest one. It looked alot more like 30 35 yards to me and my friend. we couldn't decide so I passed up the shot. I didn't want to take a chance at wounding the animal. we were staying at our cabin in McCall, so we got up the next morning and went waterskiing (rough hunting Huh?) anyway the wind started picking up about two so we decided to go hunting for the rest of the afternoon. we hadn't been hunting for more than five minutes when we ran into a doe that was bedded down. She spotted us, got up and started Walking away. we carefully parrelled her for about another ten minutes. then she completely stoppped and started eating. I snuck to with in twenty yards of her. She was face directly away with her head in a bush. I whistled so she would turn broadside, nothing happened, I did it again, nothing happened. Finally I yelled HEY! she turned looked at me. I could barely hold my bow steady I was shaking so bad. I let arrow fly. It hit her behind the shoulder. a little high of where I wanted it, but it was effective. she never ran, she kind of walked away from us then back at us and layed down ten yards from where I was standing. I have never been so excited.
I have some pics that I am trying to get put on disk
