age you got your first deer

[Exmasonite]

hopefully i can say "-2 days from now"

supposed to get down into 20's for the first time here in mid michigan w/ some light snow thursday into friday. a nice change from the damn near tropical weather we've been having. went out last weekend and didn't see a thing. hopefully friday is the day!

 

[stownsend]

Shot my first deer when I was 24. Shot a 4x4 whitetail in South Dakota. Missed him at 80 yards and then tagged him at just a shade under 300 yards with my Remington 700 in .243, 90 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip. My first deer is still the longest shot I have made.

 

[CoRoMo]

I bagged elk before I ever filled my deer tag. My first deer was dropped about two months ago, and I ain't young as you.

 

[jjbduke2004]

25 for me

I shot my first deer, a button buck, on Friday (11/23) in Delaware County, New York with a post-64 Model 70 Winchester 30-06 that belonged to a departed friend of my father. I used a 180 grain Remington pointed soft point backed by 43.5 gr of IMR 4895 and a Federal 210.

 

[cracked butt]

12. I shot a lot of my deer the first 6 years of hunting, then I went off to college and didn't have time to hunt, just started taking it up again about 6 years ago.

 

[nathan]

33 y o with my STG 58 FAL

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

14, and both my sons got there's when they were 13.

-Steve

 

[Albatross]

Nine or ten for me, but I didn't use a rifle.

I was in my skiff cruising about and found a spike swimming across the channel. I tied up a noose, managed (after a few tries; the deer was uncooperative and my dog was barking/shifting the boat) to toss it around the deer's neck and then towed the deer to death/home.

I've shot lots of deer since with an assortment of rifles.

 

[winchester243]

I was 17 when I got my first deer. Came from a duck/bird hunting family and was doing that when I was 12. My dad got me a Remington 700 in .270 when I was 16 for Christmas and I got my first deer with a friend the next hunting season.

My oldest son just turned 17 he already has about 6 deer and 3 antelope under his belt. My other son just turned 15 and he got his first antelope when he was 13 and his first deer last hunting season when he was 14.

 

[tinygnat219]

32 Years old. Only been hunting for 2 years now. Finally got a Doe, I wrote about it here:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=330860

 

[mike724]

When I was 19, my buddy took me hunting on the hill behind his house outside of Binghamton, NY. He set me on a stump, and dissappeared. When two deer ran in front of me about 30 yards off, I aimed at and killed the one with antlers. I fired two more shots in air to call my buddy back, but when he didn't show, I had to gut it by myself. Only after I'd cleaned and prepped it for the drag out did he emerge from the woods to critique my field dressing. It was all good, but I hadn't buried the gut pile. We ate every bit of that buck!

 

[TCB in TN]

I was 12, shot a doe with my grandpa's old 1903 springfield. The shot wasn't that hard, but gettin her out was a royal pain.

 

[koja48]

10, a mulie doe & with my Dad's .35 Remmie.

 

[Savage Shooter]

I was 15 been hunting deer for three years wounded several but never could find the little buggers. It was a freezing cold middle of a blizzard I knew the deer would all be out it the bottom out of the wind in this little draw outback my house I walked all the way out through about 1 mile from my house through anywhere from 1-3feet of snow and climed up in my stand but the wind was so bad had to climb down cause it was to cold it was about -10 without the windchill it was COLD but neverthe less I stuck it out I nknew something was going to be their so I hunkered down under my tree and put one my hand warmers just then out of the corner of my eye I saw something I turned and saw 3 does one was huge they crossed a creek in front of me and stopped on the other side 90 yards away I shot at it with my mossi 500 12ga I thought I missed cause it didn't move so I held higher and shot it again it dropped like a ton a bricks. I ran over to it and saw that I hadn't missed the first time I shot it right through the heart it was pouring out blood guess it must have been in shock or something. Paking it out was a pain since I had to walk all the way back to the house ao get my dad and all the way back to the deer and pack it 1 mile up hill to the nearest plowed road. It was a HUGE doe it was over 200 field dressed my dad said it was the biggest doe he had ever seen I was happy needless to say.
good luck hope you get many more