First Day / Few Days for the Bow Season - What are you going to do?

[burmjohn]

For the First Day / Few Days for the Bow Season what are your plans?

Are you going to take a shot at the first doe you see to get something going in the freezer or are you going to hold off for that buck you saw on the trail camera?

Every year I go through the same thing, more often then not I end up screwing myself over because I'm always thinking ahh there must be a buck hanging around these Does... This year first opportunity at a nice doe I'm letting it rip.

How about you?

[philoshop]

I'll be dropping the string as early as possible as well. Get one in the freezer before something else makes demands on my time.

[Chef]

Freezer for sure, it's a long season and I gotta eat!

[sits in trees]

First off I'm hoping for some cool north air to come in, but I'm gonna drop the first deer I see this season because last season I let 2 healthy does walk and regretted it later in the season.

[nyslowhand]

Always "the plan" for my SZ bow season, the 1st big, mature doe that comes within range goes down (hopefully). Typically try to wait until at least mid-Nov for a 2nd doe I try to donate annualy. After 1st doe the patience part of the season begins, numerous, long, boring sits waiting for that buck. Okay, like all good laid plans.... If I see a decent buck that gets my heart pounding & the adrenaline flowing, it's not getting a pass on any early season, pre-rut day. If it feels right at the time, do it and never look back 2nd guessing yourself! Have done it way too many times so I try not to set myself up for the old proverbial mind-game of sitting in the recliner during the winter with 20/20 hindsight looking back at the season and thinking woulda, coulda, shoulda..!

[Doc]

I have eaten enough tags to realize that I sure don't want to let too many go by in bow season. When gun season rolls around, I become a lot more picky. Those of us that hunt heavily used state land without the benefits of agriculture in the area do understand how rare some of these opportunities can be. We understand that opportunities in such areas are not to be squandered ....lol.

[Deerthug]

I will be hoping for a nice buck to walk by my blind but I will nonetheless put the first doe down - I ain't stupid! My time is already limited and I do need to give my freezer it's yearly fix since it's going through emptiness withdrawal right now! Lol!

[First-light]

I'm with the majority of you guys. Limited hunting time = need to take the 1 st shot.

[thphm]

Dang, just looked up the weather for 1 st. week of October,    Warm in the 60's. if we get that big doe for the freezer it will have to jet cut up and packaged right away. Or what we did in the past gut it and fill the cavity full of bags of ice.

[Hock3y24]

First mature deer in my range will take an arrow!

[wooly]

Freezer still has plenty enough venison for me in it to get me into summer again, so I wont be letting the air out of any early does this year.

I'll be a little more selective with any potential buck harvest during October as well. The best part of the season here will begin in early November and I'd hate to be sitting at home watching football while that show is going on. I'm really hoping to arrow a nice buck with the x-bow, so that will make passing the early season guys a little easier.

Didn't apply for any doe tags again this year so hoping for another two buck season when all is said and done in December. That's plenty of time to NOT have to rush things, and I get my monies worth out of my tags for the entire deer season.

[Red]

First big doe or first nice buck will be going down and into the freezer

[2012_taco]

I'm not sure what i will do. Usually I wait until after the rut before i try for a doe ( I like to have the live bait around) BUT after not getting a deer last year and not taking one with a bow for a couple of years, I may have to make some strategic changes in my philosophies. 

[thphm]

Not like the other does and fawns that move threw all of the property's in the area I have this one young ( around a year old ) doe hanging around on my property all day moving from one spot to another eating.I hope she draws the horny buck in when the breeding season starts.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ill be dropping the first mature buck or good size doe that comes my way. After that, the pressure is off, and if its a doe I take first, then Ill be horn hunting until gun season, or when I hunt the one farm with the DMAPs.

[fisher2]

i'll be shooting does untill im out of doe tags then ill just be chilling untill rut begins maybe ill sit and do some light early rattling to see what happens early season too

[deerpassion]

First good doe gets it... Then I'm going to "try" to not shoot another doe till the last week of October or early November , have 2 dmp's and looking to donate the meat this year so it may be a game time decision ....

[chiefbkt]

It's going to depend on which stand I can get in. If the winds right I'm buck hunting. If the winds not good, I'll move to the popular doe hangout. Where I'll prob shoot the first fat doe that steps out.

[bubba]

Hopefully filling an old tag or two  between 9/27 and the end of the month.  I am getting a lot of pics of nice does and a few decent bucks.  First one that walks in range will be camp meat for the fall.  If I get one or two, I will be much more selective the rest of the season.  That will be it for me until the 18th when muzzleloader season opens

[ATbuckhunter]

Ill probably be in class hoping that my professor lets us out early. When I do start hunting, ill be letting loose on the first doe in range. 

[NFA-ADK]

Going to let doe pass early season until the rut is done on private land, public land I will go for any doe on LI.  ADK buck only.  Looking forward to my first bow kill this year as doe are on the hit list for the first time.  Fawns still get a pass as I am a sucker for cute. 

[abuckn6does]

Filling the freezer ASAP.

[G-Man]

has to be a good buck with bow, save my doe tags for late muzzloader.

[NYbuck50]

I usually wait on a doe until the first week has passed. With the Oct 1st opener, i find some bucks are still on summer patterns.

[A Sportsman]

Depends on where I'm hunting, which will depend on wind. I have a few spots that I know will get "contaminated" by heavy hunting pressure quickly. Would happlily take a doe there. But also have a spot that I don't believe is getting much hunter attention, and I saw a huge buck there the other day with velvet hanging off. Wide as ears but really really tall. Quick glance looked like a 10 ptr. If I get the wind I'm going after him opening afternoon.