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How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills #2203410
08/23/17 01:44 PM
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Atmore, Al
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Headhunter1984 Offline OP
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Atmore, Al
Started when I was 11 killed my first (doe) when I was 12 and haven't let up 22 years later and 60-65 kills later.

Old school bear, Hoyt and Pse

Redhead Toxic Xt

Pse Surge

Mathews
Featherlite
Mq32
Switchback
Drenalin
Reezen 6.5
And hoping to do so with the Z7 I just picked up starting this year

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203424
08/23/17 02:06 PM
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Tuscaloosa, Ralph,Fosters
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Tuscaloosa, Ralph,Fosters
47 years, 1970-1994 two recurves, 52 deer
1995-now PSE and Mathews Switchback, 80 plus
Beginning this year with Barnett crossbow, arthritis in shoulders


The Earth is Gods footstool
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203450
08/23/17 02:32 PM
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Anniston, AL
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Anniston, AL
I'm 43, and I'm guessing I started bow hunting around the age of 20 (wasn't too early). First bow was a High Country Machined Supreme, then I went to a PSE Carrera, then a Mathews Switchback, now a Mathews ZXT. The most deer were killed with the Switchback, and I guess the Carrera was next. I wish I had kept up with the numbers, but all I can do is guesstimate. I killed 14 in one season (Switchback), 13 the next season (Switchback). I killed 5-10 most seasons during the early 2000's. The past few years I've killed maybe 2 per season with a bow, I know I killed 5 maybe 4/5 years ago now. In full sincerity, it's got to be approximately 80 - 90 with a bow. I tell the story that I quit using Rage broadheads because I went through two packs in one week! LOL


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Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203530
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PDL, Fl
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About 25 years ago I bought an old bow from a friend, don't know what kind of bow. We shot in the yard for a few weeks before season and started pouring out some corn. Opening day it was about
96 degrees when I got in the stand. Mosquito's ate me up. Just before dark an old doe walked in and when she was almost 1/4 to me she saw me up in the tree. I shot at the point of the shoulder and she took off. I waited a few minutes and the skeeters really started eating so I went on the blood trail. I finally found her about a quarter mile away in an old cut over. I got her to the truck, hauled her to my friends house, gave him the deer and never shot another arrow. One shot, one deer, never more.

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203574
08/23/17 03:45 PM
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Madison
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Old Mossy Horns
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Since 92. Browning, Mathews, and Bowtech. Havent kept track but probably avg 1 a year or more.


Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203592
08/23/17 03:55 PM
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Florence, AL
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Florence, AL
First deer was a doe with a PSE Nova, been hooked ever since. That was 1998.... Since then I've owned a High Country, Champion Storm, Hoyt Trykon XL, and now a Bear Venue. I'm at 40 plus deer now, mostly does. Just a handful of bucks. Bow hunter for life!


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Slick Trick Broadheads
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203615
08/23/17 04:04 PM
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Fayetteville TN Via Selma
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Fayetteville TN Via Selma
I started in the later 80's and have killed deer with an old Bear, a High Country, and a Matthews. It seems like I had something else between the Bear and the High Country but I can't recall the particulars.

No real idea on totals though but I guess I averaged about 5-7 does and 1 good buck per year since I started.


Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203619
08/23/17 04:06 PM
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Tuscaloosa Co.
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25 years. McPhearson, Mathews, and Hoyt. I've never kept up with how many total that I've killed. I probably haven't shot 10 does over the years. I learned pretty early on that bow season was the perfect time for me to take a buck.

My first deer with a bow was a 7 point. I've killed several sixes, sevens, and eight points. I believe I've only killed one 9 point and I know only one 12 point.

Probably pretty boring for some folks, but I enjoy it and feel blessed.


83% of all statistics are made up.

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203645
08/23/17 04:22 PM
08/23/17 04:22 PM
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Guntersville
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Old Mossy Horns
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Guntersville
I ain't killed many with a bow but have used several different bows. They were all nice.
Power Mag
Jennings Uni-Force (that was a sweet shooter, responsible for multiple kills. The limbs eventually started separating. I think it was a failing common to the model).
Matthews Signature.
McPherson Ultimate Eliminator

I hadn't killed one with a bow in awhile as you might have noticed from these bow models.
I did kill a rabbit last year with my left handed McPherson Edge.
I bet not many of you guys have killed with a bow right handed and left handed.

Last edited by AC870; 08/23/17 04:26 PM.

“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”

On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203648
08/23/17 04:27 PM
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Demopolis, Al
Started around age 13. Self taught. Stuck a doe that year with my Bear Whitetail II. Stuck several over the years before actually recovering one. I was 19 and it was a field full of deer. 10 rack bucks. I finally got a shot, and hit, a 1.5 yr old 8 pt. I was shooting a High Country at that time. Then I bought my first Mathews in 1996 and I've shot a bunch of them over the next 20 years. About to start my 3rd year with an Elite. I've killed several racked bucks, but nothing that makes P&Y. 115" is my biggest. I keep a running tally on my bow accessories box. It's pretty accurate, and it has 47 tally marks on it right now. I usually shoot 2-3 per year with a bow. I carry it until about the 3rd week of January, or unless weather is too crappy, until I pick up a gun. Can't make myself go all year...yet.

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203649
08/23/17 04:27 PM
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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Started in 1991 with a Browning Mag Compact. Killed 2 with it.
Reflex Extreme
PSE Stingray
Mathews Q2... got it in 2000 and killed a chit load with it, lost count. Hunted with it on and off through 2012. Outback owned it during my Hoyt years and I got it back in 2007.
Mathews LX
Hoyt Xtec
Hoyt Vtec
Hoyt Trykon
Mathews Drenalin
Mathews Z7... got a 13pt with it
Mathews Chill R
Mathews Creed
Mathews HTX

No idea what my total kill number is, but I'm sitting on a 20 year long streak with at least one bow kill during bow season.


"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call

ShawBuilt Custom Bowstrings
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203673
08/23/17 04:52 PM
08/23/17 04:52 PM
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Montgomery, AL
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Montgomery, AL
PSE Nova - 1
Jennings Buckmaster - 1

(Long break)

Hoyt Charger - 5 or so
Bowtech RPM360 - 20 or so
Mathews Halon 6 - ready to go

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203679
08/23/17 04:58 PM
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Luverne
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12 point
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Luverne
Shot my first deer with a bow at 13 with an old McPherson. Then upgraded to a hoyt for a couple years and been shooting PSE bows ever since.

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203763
08/24/17 12:04 AM
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Your mom’s house
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Your mom’s house
Bear Whitetail II
High Country
Hoyt
Several Mathews

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203768
08/24/17 12:37 AM
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AL/GA
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8 point
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AL/GA
Been bow hunting 25 years. Not sure on the numbers, cuz like birthdays I quit keeping up. Killed the most with a High Country second most with a Darton.

Darton
Oneida
Bear
High Country
PSE


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Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2203832
08/24/17 02:41 AM
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Only killed 3 with bow. Old bear whitetail for the first. It was a small 8 point on corps land. One of those special hunts yiu still remember every detail years later. Other 2 were with a PSE

Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: N2TRKYS] #2204243
08/24/17 09:55 AM
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Anniston, AL
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Originally Posted By: N2TRKYS
25 years. McPhearson, Mathews, and Hoyt. I've never kept up with how many total that I've killed. I probably haven't shot 10 does over the years. I learned pretty early on that bow season was the perfect time for me to take a buck.

My first deer with a bow was a 7 point. I've killed several sixes, sevens, and eight points. I believe I've only killed one 9 point and I know only one 12 point.

Probably pretty boring for some folks, but I enjoy it and feel blessed.


Amen, all these years later, and having killed plenty with a bow, it still gives me chicken skin even to see a doe coming in! It's just that nervousness of having to stand, and wait till it's close, and draw back without being seen, then make the shot, then all the follow up and trailing part, dang I love it! (I think that's one of the reasons I've never been a fan of crossbows, it seems to take a lot of what I enjoy about it out of it. Not starting an argument about xbows, just expressing my experiences and how I think it would differ)

Last edited by ikillbux; 08/24/17 10:53 AM.

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Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: FlyinRN] #2204305
08/24/17 11:02 AM
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41 years. Ben Pearson, Browning, Martin, York and PSE. Somewhere near about 65+.


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Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2204310
08/24/17 11:07 AM
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Lake Bluff IL
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Lake Bluff IL
Ive been bowhunting 55 years- since I was 15. First bow was a Bear recurve, then a Browning Super Xcelerator, now a Mathews Outback. My biggest buck I shot in 2003 with the Browning- he grossed 167 & 3/8 P&Y. Here he is:


Jesus saves,but Moses invests
Re: How long you been bow hunting, what brand bows have you killed deer with, total kills [Re: Headhunter1984] #2204311
08/24/17 11:11 AM
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Here's my second biggest buck, shot in 2001 with the same Browning bow as above. He grossed 160 P&Y even:


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