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New to forum here and I guess new again to hunting this year. I started hunting at 14 and hunted into my early 20's and for various reasons got away from it. More than 10 years later after bow season had already begun this year I decided to get back in the woods. I got my dusty bow case down from the rafters of my garage and opened it up to see what time had done to my old bow(1991 Bear Black Bear). Everything looked good and after taking it to the local bow shop and being told it was safe to shoot, he changed the draw length and ordered some new arrows. I found that I was still a pretty good shot with it and after a few days of practice I was ready to go. Some may be saying that is not enough practice but I have been shooting this bow since I was 12 (I'm 35 now) and it is quite familiar to me. I had a trail cam on my property for a few months and there were tons of deer around and some really nice bucks too. I saw deer almost every time I went out and have never enjoyed hunting this much before. It makes it real nice I can walk out the door and be in my stand in 15 minutes too without driving anywhere. I let several small bucks walk and unfortunatley now regret it and although I didnt get a deer with the bow I am really looking forward to next year. The last day of the early bow season was the most exciting hunting day I have ever had. I had 3 nice bucks come in close but just out of my comfortable bow range including the grandaddy 10 pointer. That really got the blood pumping! The next day was the gun opener and I decided to gun hunt too. I was really excited because all the deer from the previous day would have been in easy gun range. As soon as dawn broke it sounded like a war zone. Gunshots all around me and only saw 1 deer off in the distance since the season started. I also stopped getting any pics on my trail cam which stunk because I was getting sometimes 50 pics in a single night before gun season! On the up side I did see the grandaddy 10 the other day, he casually walked across my FRONT lawn in the middle of the day like he owned the joint. I think he was laughing at me. Needless to say I cant wait for the 2013 bow season to be here!