How many shots have you taken?

[RackRocker]

When I was 8 or 9 I emptied my 30-30 twice lol! That's 14 shots if you was wondering. She just stood up and walked off. Cause dad was laughing so hard.
What about y'all?

 

[cecil30-30]

First year I started bowhunting,I shot all 4 of my arrows at a pretty good 8pt that started out at 20yds and when i shot my lastt arrow at him he was at 35 yds..I was a nervous wreck.And he still didn't know I was there.He just stood there looking around.I eventually threw my quiver at him..LOL

 

[Diehard Hunter]

I plead the 5th.

 

[reloadxx]

When i was 11 went to the family farm in west Virginia with my dad he sent me up a tree and came back in a couple of hours and picked up my arrows all 6i of them and left and came back in a couple more hours and oick them up again this happened 4 times before dad said i was done never cut a hair in 24 shots

 

[critter slayer]

Started goin huntn when i was 3 started huntn with my own gun and had a few misses but usually one shot one kill but when i was 17 i emptied my 45-70 twice (10 shots) on a lil buck and never touched haha it wasnt funny then but its funny now lol

 

[Bottom Hunter]

five shots...one at a still buck close broadside, four more as he ran across the field....huge buck...1974....still sick to this day..lol.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

I'm not going to start thinking real hard about the number. But I do remember one time when I was 12 years old. One weekend, I missed 4 bucks, and on the way back to the house that Sunday morning, a dove flew in a tree about 10 yards from me. I said, "what the heck". Pulled my bow back and shot. It went right through the middle of that dove and the arrow just fell. The dove was stuck in the middle of the arrow. I brought it back and showed everyone at camp that I COULD kill something with a bow, even though they knew it was "buck fever" that I had all weekend. Thats when I learned to keep my mouth shut

 

[fourwheeler431]

I took 3 shots at one,the closest being straight under my stand and then twice at 25yrds. I just set down after the third shot and watched her feed off till I couldn't see her anymore.

 

[Phil1979]

First year I started bowhunting,I shot all 4 of my arrows at a pretty good 8pt that started out at 20yds and when i shot my lastt arrow at him he was at 35 yds..I was a nervous wreck.And he still didn't know I was there.He just stood there looking around.I eventually threw my quiver at him..LOL

That's a good one. Made me laugh and smile.

I remember shooting my first deer with a bow. The first arrow stuck in a tree right in front of the deer, never saw that tree. Luckily the doe stood there and I was able to get another arrow at her, she ran and dropped about twenty yards from me.

 

[Shed Hunter]

The most Ive ever shot was two at a deer. I shot five at a coyote last year. He was chasing a fawn so I took a running shot and hit him in the legs at over 100 yards with a 30-30. After that he was flipping around on the ground so I ended up shooting four more times and missed two of them.

 

[easy45]

I think the most I've shot at one deer was 4 times but I'm proud to say I got him on the fourth shot and he is now on the wall, my second biggest buck ever, had some serious buck fever that morning

 

[BSK]

First year I bow-hunted, I emptied my quiver (6 arrows) at a very nice 8-pointer. He just stood broadside watching as each arrow sailed over his back, one after another.

 

[Trapper John]

My very first juvy hunt I sprayed more bullets than a Rambo movie. Hit nothing.

The most times I've had to shoot a deer would be four times. He went down on the first. I put another in him when I walked up on him. A few seconds later he was still breathing and trying to stand so I shot again. That one knocked him on his side and when he tried to pick his head up I put one between his shoulder blades. When I gutted him I found the first bullet hit high and far back (I blame myself. Probably flinched.), the next two destroyed his lungs and the final one shattered his spine between the shoulders.

I felt bad about it later for having to use that many shots, but after thinking it over he probably would have expired fairly quickly after the second shot. I was so nervous and jumpy I just kept trying to put him down. That was the second year hunting after killing my first and the first deer that didn't die within seconds and out of sight. In my hunters ed. class they talked frequently about taking this seriously because even though it's just an animal you're still taking a life and it should be done quickly. Seeing it up close like that was a big deal.

 

[BowGuy84]

9 shots with rifle at 250 yards. It was windy and the scope we later discovered was off. They stood there the whole time. Helpless feeling being out of bullets.

 

[cozy23]

Last year I shot twice at a doe then she left. Then a coyote came directly under me and I thought I had a shot at redemption but just trimmed some hair off of him. Would have been my first coyote too dang it!

I think I missed a total of 6 time this past year with my bow from not enough practice and untrimmed shooting lanes.

 

[Mike Belt]

I took 3 shots at a buck one morning and hit him with 3 killing shots. He just wouldn't go down. I have fired 5 shots a couple of times but that was when I was trying to stack up does and had a wad of them come out. Other than that I'm not a lead slinger. I won't even take the first shot if I question the outcome.

 

[UpperTully]

2009, I shot 4 times with a 30-06 at a 8 point standing broadside at 435 yards in a flooded bean field. Each shot I took he would walk a few steps and look behind him. The 4th shot struck him in his spine.

 

[StalkingWolf]

I got three shots off at the same small buck with a muzzleloader!
He still walked off wondering what just happened.
And I just sat there wondering what just happened.

 

[WGK]

Buck fever got me on my first deer 8 pointer at oak ridge. I fell asleep in the stand when i woke up he was behind me feeding. My first shot cut down a small tree. My second and third shots he was running up the ridge when he reached the top he stopped turned and here he came. Shots four and five well who knows. He ran about 70 yards below me and stopped. I put another shell in my A5 and dropped him, hit him in the back of the neck. I shot the woods down but I GOT HIM.

 

[MUP]

2 with a rifle, and two with a bow.

 

[easy45]

I think the most I've shot at one deer was 4 times but I'm proud to say I got him on the fourth shot and he is now on the wall, my second biggest buck ever, had some serious buck fever that morning

Exactly what I was going to post. I was shaking like a dog passing peach seeds but I finally got him!

I hope yours wasn't as close as mine, mine was only standing 50 yards away

 

[Brisco Darlin]

3 times on same doe in the span of about 30 minutes. that was the dumbest deer i'd ever seen. my wedge pin popped out of my mz going in. I had paracord wrapped around the barrel to hold it still. finally got it on the third time. it just had to get across the creek i was sitting by.

 

[Boone 58]

We went to AEDC in around 77....not sure exactly but close....of course it was shotguns......we all shot at deer with those things like shooting at doves.......and never hit the first one. I shot at one deer at 20 yards and missed.........somehow?.......then she ran and stopped at about 50 yds......missed.............somehow??.....then she ran and stopped at about 75 yards ........missed somehow???.............then she stopped at 100 yards............started thinking the ammunition was more valuable than wasting it on misses and i watched her casually trot on off ........this happened to all of us but not as bad for anyone else as me. I was using a rifled barreled ithaca deer slayer.....but i didnt/couldnt slay a gnat!!!! Still laugh about it quiet often. I had never seen so many deer just stand on a greenfield like that in all of my life. they were all over the roads and it was an awesome experience for several of us totally green horns of the whitetail world. Memories for a life time!!

 

[gatodoc]

So far 2 shots 4 deer...killed 2 with my toyota.....got nowhere to go with my shooting but down....

Hope the car's kills goes down too...

 

[Bottom Hunter]

I always love telling this story......

back in the mid-seventies, i was sitting on a tree limb (yep, on a tree limb) facing the HNWR boundary sign. It was very icey and snowy.....

Not long after daylight I heard the ice cracking behind me , turned in time to watch two large does step ou in the field, heading back to the refuge.

Less than a minute later, I hear more ice cracking and a very wide, massive, dark racked buck stepped out. Still one of the best bucks I have seen ...even after almost 40 years.

The next few moments were blurry then, and remain that way in my mind.

I fired one shot at the buck, standing still at about 40 yards, broadside......I have no idea why, but he ran across the field and not back in to the timber.....four shots later, he stopped, on the opposite side of the field taking a moment to look back at me...lol. I loaded one more shell in to the 30-06, aimed just over his back and fired.

I got down, unexperienced at tracking deer and frantically searched for blood. I saw none. I walked over to where he had stopped and saw no blood there either.

Three days later, a local WO called the landowner and told him that he found a buck dead on his property, within a half mile of where I was. I and the landowner's son drove out there and met the warden. he took us to the deer....

It was huge eight pointer, not tall, but wide and very heavy.

I could not say for sure if the deer was the same one that I shot at, so I couldn't in good conscience claim the deer....

I was 17 years old at the time and even though I wanted to claim the buck, I just couldn't.

Maybe if I had gone and got help to track the deer, we may have indeed found him that day.....again, I was very young and knew very little about anything that had to do with deer...

I have no proof it was the same deer even though both were heavy, brown racked deer.....and not too far from where he entered the woods after my last shot and in line with the way he seemed to be headed.

Sometimes I wish I had claimed the deer, but then again, I'd hate to have someone else's deer on my wall.....the deer fell not too far from the boundary line and we could not tell which way the deer came from before dying.

Inexperience definitely costed me a very large mature buck....

 

[AlabamaSwamper]

Who knows.

Dog hunting in Alabama in big clear cuts on either sex days back in the mid to late 90's with two clips can cause a man to go through some ammo.

All I will say is I've shot 9 or more times at a single deer twice in my younger days.

To say that place was overrun with deer would be an understatement.

 

[horn master]

I've emptied my quiver of 6 and was looking for one more arrow. I know I could have killed if I had one more arrow. This was between 15 and 30 yards! LOL

 

[cdave89]

6 for me

 

[Nhill]

I shot 5 shots at a buck with a muzzleloader as he very calmly walked across the field. I checked my cheap scope after that to find that it was off two feet to the left at 50 yards.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Back in the early 90's, I pulled the hammer back on my black powder and pulled the trigger probably 40 times. Gun wouldnt ever fire. It was at LBL and still to this day one of the biggest bucks I have ever seen in the wild. Then the percussion cap can fell off my lap and landed on the ground. He was 45 yards and I just put my gun back on my lap and watched him. Started glassing him....he had 11 points. I was sick.

Got back to camp and to prove to the guys my gun wouldnt fire, I pulled the trigger and it SHOT!!!!!