First Time Awards
Hunter Ehlers
After three long years of bow hunting Hunter’s patience and persistence paid off. He was finally able to connect at 12 yards with his homemade longbow and cedar shafts, bring home this nice little buck. Now if those turkeys would hold still long enough.
Lisa Glodowski
Over the past 20 years Lisa has killed no less than six deer and two cows with her vehicles traveling the roads near Rogers, NE. Jeff Allen her boy friend convinced her that she should try bow hunting as a means to thin the deer population instead using her vehicles. After four years, and many lonely hours sitting in her stands, she was convinced there were no deer in her area. Trail cams placed near her stands proved her wrong showing three nice bucks in the area. Her focus turned to a nice 5X5 caught on the trail cams, it was him or nothing. Not seeing a deer the first two weeks of the season, she was discouraged. On November 10th Jeff was hunting in the morning and had a lot of activity. He called her and said you need to hunt this afternoon and he would picking her up. Jeff dropped her off at 2:30 and told her to shoot straight. Shortly after 4:00 he got a text. Where are you? I think I shot the 5X5 and I’m shaking so bad. Jeff thinking she’s board and cold text back reality. A return text “there’s sill a 4X4 here. He’s thing shoot. When Jeff made it to Lisa’s stand she was nervous and sure they never find her deer. The blood trail was ample and this nice Dodge County deer was recovered a nice 5X5 scoring 137 4/8 Pope & Young. Not to bad for your first big game animal with a bow.
Jake Wilkins
On October 29th in Brown County Jake took his 9 year old brother Sam with him to his stand. Sam kept asking Jake “when are they going to come by? Jake kept answering “any minute”. Finally Sam said “we’re not going to see anything”. Just then Jake heard a deer approaching from behind. The buck eventually made his way down the trail and at 12 yards Jake made a perfect shot and the buck only went a short distance. Sam stuck out his hand and said “congratulations Jake you did it”. Brothers and friends for ever.
Hunter Weiss
Shot this doe on September 26 in Gage County at 17 yards while hunting with his dad John. The doe after a perfect heart shot only went 40 yards and they saw her go down. John said “I don’t know who was more excided”. Hunter is 12 year old and this was his first year to bow hunt and made his first shot as a bow hunter count.
Justin Schack
His dad Dan has been trying get Justin to deer hunt for 20 years. It was September 24 and only the second time in a tree stand. An hour on stand a doe was coming twenty yard behind him. Thinking it took forever for her to come into the open Justin landed a great shoot. It must be a lucky stand since his mom and dad shot their first deer out of the same stand.
Wyatt Gewinner
Shot this Cass County doe on opening day back in 2008 when he was 12 from the ground using a recurve bow and cedar arrows which he made himself.
Kelly Messenger
On her first hunt of the season on September 24th her husband set her up in a stand along the river. After a couple hours in the stand a doe and fawn came in and walked right underneath her. She found out what your nerves will do to you, she was shaking so much she couldn’t even begin to pull her bow back, and the deer eventually moved down the trail. Disappointed, she sat down hoping that she would get another chance. About an hour later, another doe came walking out of the trees. She stood straight up before her nerves could kick in again. Pulled her bow back, put the 40 yard pin on the doe, and couldn’t believe that the shot sounded exactly like what you hear and see on T.V.! The doe started going before it went out of sight. She listened for a minute or so, and couldn’t hear anything anymore. Then she experienced the adrenaline rush that makes your legs feel like Jell-O and had to sit down. She texted her husband, but he didn’t come to get her until way past dark; “I guess he didn’t believe me”. The Garfield County doe went only 50 yards. She said, “It was a great experience and I can’t wait till next deer season.”
Joseph Butler
One of the Lincoln mentor kid took this doe on October 29 in Lancaster County. This was Joseph first year in the program.
Shae Lott
And his dad went out late the afternoon of April 14 to a place in Sherman County along the North Loup River. Shortly after they set the blind and decoys up two long beards came in. When the closest reached 15 yards Shae took his first shot at an animal with his bow. His arrow hit the mark and he had his first bow kill. He couldn’t wait to get the pictures up on Face Book and tell all his buddies. He went on later in the season to kill his second turkey in Cherry County.
Nathan Tobiasson
While hunting with his dad on April first he was finally able to get his spring tom down. Nathan had several other shots this season but hit the birds in the heavy wing butt and his arrows kept just bouncing off. A plan was laid out to only take a frontal or going away shot. With film rolling the tom came into 7 yards and faced Nathan. It just started to sprinkle when they first seen the turkeys coming in and all were soaked for the pictures but nobody seamed to care.
Tyler Brass
Practice was several times a week with his dad before he could be sitting in the stand actually bow hunting for a deer. The doe came in behind some evergreens and looked up so Tyler looked away momentarily. The doe then started to walk away so Tyler did a mouth call and she stopped. The shot was good but the 20 minute wait lasted forever. Dad and son fond their price just yards from where she was standing. The adrenaline was pumping and the moment felt like no other.
Johanna Spencer
With her October 5X6 Blaine County buck shoot with her bow see bought last summer and the buck was the first thing she killed with the bow. The day she shot her buck, she was late getting off work (she’s an RN), so she had to throw her camo over her scrubs and run to her stand. The buck came down the trail 30 minutes later and the 25 yard shot was on the mark. The buck was green scored around 150.
