Question: the first word out yo mouth.......

[thedarkarcher]

for kicks, i thought i would ask the first words(if appropriate) that you say after shooting a big buck or your first deer or anything for that matter. tell what you gasped first after the moment of truth on your favorite hunting endeavor.

[thedarkarcher]

for example: "oh my gawd, i just shot a huge buck! did you see that? i hit 'em right? i had to have... i think it was a good shot, should we go check for blood? naw, i hit 'em, we'll wait..................... lets go check for blood."

[DiggerDog]

Originally Posted by thedarkarcher

for kicks, i thought i would ask the first words(if appropriate) that you say after shooting a big buck or your first deer or anything for that matter. tell what you gasped first after the moment of truth on your favorite hunting endeavor.

I've only shot one big buck in my life and can still remember it like it was yesterday. The first words out of my mouth were "Thank You". The next words were "How am I going to drag this big boy out of the woods by myself?"

I shot him across the road from my sisters house in NY state and had to drag him about a 1/2 mile through the hard-woods, across an abandoned apple orchard then through a field of tall grass. In total the drag was just under a mile.

[fishman34]

I think my words when i shot the only buck i have were "yeah man, yeah" "woo" "$#%@ yeah" "wow i actually hit it"

[Waterfowler]

First Bow Kill...."Ahh bad shot..how am i going to explain this one"... "did it just fall"?
Biggest Buck Bow Kill..."Yes Good shot he shouldnt go far","Stop listen if you can here him fall"

[Lureslinger]

Last year I said "Thank you Lord!" after my arrow passed through the buck in my avatar. I cant say what was going through my head over and over as he was approaching my decoy....I guss I can clean it up. I said "holy crap, holy crap, holy crap" as he closed the distance. Man, how the the adrenalin flows!

[flatcoats]

my first p&y buck reaction....... "how in the **** did he get 5 yards from me before I even knew he was there??? a 300lb animal that walks like a cat, thats how!" you might laugh, but thats pretty much what I thought/said to myself.

[obert]

"don't fall, you're in a tree stand"

[thedarkarcher]

Originally Posted by obert

"don't fall, you're in a tree stand"

exactly....if i shoot something i hafta sit down right away.

[BPbowhunter]

On the first deer I shot with my bow, I thought I had actually missed. And I thought "How the heck did I miss that thing?" Remember I was only 13, so it was still pretty clean.

The buck I shot last year I thought this to myself. "Ah, **** thats a bad shot." Since my first arrow was a paunch hit, luckily I was able to get another arrow in him later that day.

[wneb.fisher]

I remember what was going through my head when I called in my first spring gobbler last year. "There he is. He just gobbled back at me. I gotta call again to get him to come. There! He gobbled again. Oh Sh*^! Here he comes!! He is actually coming in. Get ready to shoot." After I got the bird I remember getting up and whooping so loud that another gobbler answered back. All I could do was laugh and whoop again.

[chuck_5]

Well i can recall the deer just from last year. Shot a doe during rifle after I missed a big buck. I had watched her for 4 days straight come in at the same time with her two buck fawns and I finally decided it was time for her to have it. Shot, she jumped and did the death kick and took off into the trees. I'm not very excited because i am a very mellow person, so this was basically what i said after she took off. Bam, got that biotch. Then looked up and said thanks Lord.
My buck I shot with the muzzy was about even less exciting. 4x4 walks out decide i'm not shooting him then a 5X4 walks out right behind him pull my gun up let a grunt he stops. BOOM! The smoke clears and I don't see a deer. I mean literally a second after i shot the smoke was clear. I said out loud. Are you f'in kidding me, what the hell? How did he disappear. So i crawl down and walk up there and there was just a slight depression that he fell in the when i shot and dropped instantly. Then I see him poke him and go "Hmm guess that works!"
The next two doe were the only ones i was shaky nervous excited for. I think it was because they didn't just pop up like the rest i spotted them from a good 100 yards away walking in before hand. I waiting knowing i was going to shoot them once they got down in front of me. I had to look away and think of something else and talk to myself. I was like "come on Eric you have done this before deep breath. You better calm down or your gonna shoot her bad and it's not gonna be a clean kill." After the kills it was like ahhh yes whew.

[Ty Stromquist]

I shot a 16 point non typical right out of high school. My uncle was about 3/4 of a mile away and thought I shot myself cuz I yelled so loud.


YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bass-Assassin]

My first deer was a doe. I was by myself in a stand and 4 does came walking in, gave a call and blasted the largest one. She jumped up upon impact and took off into the woods. i thought for sure i missed her so I got out the stand and pursued the other 3. After pushing the others a while I came across the fist doe I had shot at. Not sure if she was totally dead i poked her and the first words out of my mouth on my first deer ever was, "Are you dead little lady?" pretty cheesy right? Then I gutted her arse. I know there was definitely cussing going on during that process. First gut job I had ever performed. And of course draging the heap to your truck there are always some choice words.

[gwhunter]

Got em!