The first bow you used to take your first DEER?

[RUSS0079]

Just wondering what was the bow that you used to kill your first deer with. Mine was PSE Spirit, equipt with a flipper rest and a Cobra sight.. Killed two deer that year with that bow. 220 feet per sec. with Ultralight Easton arrows and 100 grain broadheads.

[Bird Boy]

first bow i used is the one that i still use. it is an old jennings that goes to 45 pounds of pull and i used 40 pound beman arrows. it has just a regular plastic rest and an old sinle pin sight. :thup:

[ub1243]

i took my first deer with a PSE Polaris set at 57lbs. it had the double round wheels and the steel cable with lead ends. i had a TM rest and a cobra pin sight. i had a solid brass stabilizer on it, that and the cast white metal riser made it feel like 40lbs of bow.
i hunted with a bear the first year. i saw a deer opening day, then nothing for the entire season and permit season. but still went every day i could.

[onthehunt]

Jennings Buckmaster. Little doe on a corn pile. Might as well been a ten pointer:). Hooked for life. It's cool to think back at the way you evolve as a hunter. Kill anything, kill everything, kill mature does, kill bucks, kill a buck bigger than last year, Just being happy to have a little time in the woods:thup:. What's next?? Watching your son or daughter kill his first with his "first" bow. It never ends:cool:

[DoubleDown]

A Fred Bear Whitetail. i believe i was using Satalite Mag 125 gr. broadheads.Standard bow with no bells and whistles.A 4 pt was my first kill with the bow in Mt. Laurel 20 yrs ago when there was still woods there.

[wreckless]

Martin tiger, 45lbs. I shot a spike in Hancock out of my a ladder stand.

[BarnesX.308]

Missed a few with my Bear Whitetail Hunter II. Got my first deer with a Jennings Unistar.

[grtwhthunter/fisherman]

i guess im the oldest. i used a recurve which was made by indian archery lol. its all my dad gave me he sucked .anyway learned to use it found arrow while squirrel hunting behind my house not kiddin it had a atriangle flat blade and a single insert blade i sharpened my self (another skill i learned myself). i shot a doe behind my house which is now holiday city in williamstown but was all woods:o

[Nanuk]

My first bow to take a nice 4 pointer in Parksville NY was a Golden Eagle with TM 2 prong and Cobra sight shooting Easton xx78 out of a overdraw bow from the ground not 25 yards out with my dad sitting right next to me . My first hunting bow was a Bear "Black Bear" all conventional , I was 12 yrs. old and I received that for graduation gift . Shot that bow till I was able buy myself my next bow the Golden Eagle , I was 19.

[ACEarcher]

I was 13. Jennings Micron. We were able to tweak it to 41lbs. I got a doe @ 25 yds. The arrow never made it through. I hit her and she ran the stopped with the aroow in her. I called my dad over and we waited. The blood trail was very poor. We basicaly started following ruffled up leaves. I found her about 80 yds from where I shot her. I was using the ol 2113 camo hunters with a 85g thunderhead. This was my first deer. My first buck was taken with a 30-30.

[Harmon]

MIne was a PSE Gamesport Pulsar, the same one I will be using this afternoon and tomorrow. Got it in like 87 from Sportsman center in NJ. 1st buck was a large spike right in the back of the neck, dropped like rock.

[algdog]

brackenberry sidekick recurve, 60lbs at 28", cedar arrow, bear traditional broadhead
12 yrds. on the ground. took 9yrs of trying before I got the first one with a bow.

[Bent Arrow]

I used an XI Impulse bow with Easton Game Getter arrows and Razrback 5 broadheads to shoot a doe. I still remember it like it was yesterday.

[Big Ned]

an old recurve of about 45lbs was my first. forgot the name years ago. quite a difference from the darton pro300 i shoot now at 330 fps.

[Makoman]

Wing recurve at 42 lbs. Cedar shaft arrow with razor insert brodhead. Nice wide 6 pointer that weighed 153 lbs dressed. 20 yd. shot.

[tradguy]

1964 bear kodiak recurve, still use a recurve

[cageese]

bear whitetail 2. Shot a spike. It took me 3 shots before I hit it. 12 years old.

[ruddy22]

I have used my same browning bow that I purchased when I was a kid in the eighties. I have killed a lot a deer with it and just banged out a six pointer last night. Have always considered getting a new one, but sometimes its that comfort and reliability you hate to give up on with "Ole Trusty." :thup:

[Yelper]

Mine was the old wooden handle Browning Legend, Center flipper, 72 lbs., Gamegetter 2317's. Missed seven deer that year and finally contacted with a small doe.


By looking at some of these first bows we have a lot of younger hunters on here.

[mccool]

indian compound arrows went real slow

[arrowhead]

Howatt Custom Bushmaster longbow 60# @ 28" , a one point spike

[H/H]

Lots of PSE fans here.

Mine was a PSE Fire Flight. I used it for 10 years and was thinking about trying to find a new string for it just to see how it shoots today.

[MattG]

The venerable Hoyt Pro Hunter, my first non-youth compound i got in the early 80's

[booner]

Hoyt superstar fastflight. That is hoyt's 1st machined aluminum riser bow. Paid $525.00 in 1994.

[hunter4623]

Started bowhunting in 1994. Killed a little doe on opening day around 10am. Hooked for life. PSE, easton alum arrows, muzzy's. I'm still using muzzy's, but switched to easton carbon's and a Mathews in 2003.