Your Defining Moment

[woodbooger]

back in 87 found out that broadheads need to weigh the same as fieldpoints. lol

[Stoney]

I use to "shoot" a mathews fx, I love to shoot, been shooting since I was a kid, off and on, between deploying and PCSing, never really got the chance to hunt. PCSed to Maryland this past sept, hunted public land and saw some deer that I wasn't comfortable shooting at due to distance, decided to up-grade, bought an Envy this past october, joined AT and EAF, I have learned a lot in a quick time, enough to tear down the Envy and re-finish it with minimal help from forum members. MAN let me tell you I am definitely hooked on Archery, not just "shooting". Flat out hooked!!! Won an Answer in a raffle and can't wait till it gets here, been browsing the classifieds, can't help it, i feel the need for ANOTHER Elite, but not before I get something for my 14yr old son, he cant stand not having an Elite!!

MOST of all, I learned not to leave yourself open or SMASH will trash you......

[woodbooger]

I use to "shoot" a mathews fx, I love to shoot, been shooting since I was a kid, off and on, between deploying and PCSing, never really got the chance to hunt. PCSed to Maryland this past sept, hunted public land and saw some deer that I wasn't comfortable shooting at due to distance, decided to up-grade, bought an Envy this past october, joined AT and EAF, I have learned a lot in a quick time, enough to tear down the Envy and re-finish it with minimal help from forum members. MAN let me tell you I am definitely hooked on Archery, not just "shooting". Flat out hooked!!! Won an Answer in a raffle and can't wait till it gets here, been browsing the classifieds, can't help it, i feel the need for ANOTHER Elite, but not before I get something for my 14yr old son, he cant stand not having an Elite!!

MOST of all, I learned not to leave yourself open or SMASH will trash you......

you learn fast grasshopper!! but can you walk on rice paper without leaving a print

[TEXAS 10PT]

Probably when I took my first buck with a bow and then taking a P & Y Pronghorn. The all time best feeling I've ever had hunting was when my son took his first multi-antlered whitetail buck and I was in the blind with him. I will never forget that feeling.

TEXAS

[Illini]

Probably when I shot my P/Y elk in AZ. My dad and I had met up for lunch in the field and were cow calling to a bull that had been bugling. He stepped into the clearing @ 55 yds and my dad refused to shoot him. He said he was too far. Elk started getting spooky and I begged him to shoot but he refused and told me I better shoot him if I was gonna cuz he was about to bolt. I shot him and we recovered him a few hundred yards later...335'ish P/Y...later that week in camp my Dad won $20 and camp chores off of me when he beat me shooting @ 50 yds. I told him I thought you couldn't shoot @ 50 yds...he said I didn't say I couldn't, I said I didn't want to...

[shootstraight]

For me it was this guy in 07, getting him on scouting cam earlier then harvesting him with my Energy about a week later. Watched him for a hour and a half before getting a shot and then having to draw with 6 deer around me, a dream hunt for me and the reason I exclusively bow hunt. I shot him early Nov and would have typically had my muzzleloader but got tired of saying to myself "if I had my bow I'd shoot that one", so finally decided to bowhunt all year and came away with this one.

[chappy]

Funny, the first deer I got with a bow was a big doe. I remember every single little detail about that kill. From the deer coming down trail, from the spot picked, to the arrow flight, to the blood spraying, to knees shaking, to trailing and on and on. I can't say that about all the deer since. I was hooked from the moment that arrow entered the deer.

[sefan]

20 + years ago, fighting the orange army in upstate Pa. , 2nd year in a row, sitting on my lucky stump, guys chased buck past me which I pratically had to shoot in self-defence. Got home and wife said looked like bambi with chopsticks on its head , we get bigger deer in yard. Got a doe tag and went out hunting by home and saw more and bigger bucks then ever before. Never really heard of hunting in the burbs back then. The next October I skipped beer camp and hunted by home. I passed up a buck for the first time, that was never heard of by anyone I ever hunted with. I ended up getting a buck bigger than anything I had ever seen when gun hunting and was hooked. I haven't shot a gun since, passed up trips to Wyoming with dad and brothers because they said I'd have to go with gun and go plenty of years without getting a buck. For me its more fun hunting with a bow and passing then hunting with a gun and killing.

[Jbehredt]

Very limited bowhunting experience for me. Last year was my first year with a bow. Most defining moment (s) so far would be my two misses this turkey season. My first two bow shots at living animals. I now know for a fact it's not easy to poke holes in living animals with skinny pipes. Next chance will e my second archery elk season here in CO. Practicing every day from April to August.

[archer58inPA]

For me,it was the first time in a tree with a bow and realizing just how close I could get to a deer. I was totally amazed at myself.
Fooling deer in their living rooms was a rush the first time, and still is.
That may be the event that got me addicted to archery.
Even if I don't draw my bow, I know I've won the battle.