What firearm (or bow) did you kill your first deer with?

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Carolina Kalash

Carolina Kalash

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For my first deer (which as much as I've hunted in the 8 years i've hunted regularly, is the only deer I've ever killed, mainly cause it's the only one I ever got a shot at:eek:) I used my Rem. 700 ADL with a Mossy Oak stock in .270Win with some off brand scope that came with it that my dad bought me for my 16th birthday, wish I still had that rifle
 
My grandpa's Remington M722 with Weaver KV 3-5 in .257 Roberts. i was 11 years old in 1963. Fifty years later, last year, I pulled the old rifle out for another round and on the second day of season put down a nice little spike for old time's sake. :D I wanted to do that, normally hunt with either my CVA wolf or my Remington M7 .308 now days if I use a rifle. But, the old gun still gets it done. It never was insufficient at deer hunting, just got the urge for something else. :D But, my grandpa's memory still lives in that old 722.
 
A single-shot Topper 30-30. Really neat rifle. Still have it although I haven't shot it in many years.
 
Marlin 336

In 30-30. We had it and a Winchester 94 in 30-30 in the cabinet but I never opted for the Winchester. Loved that Marlin and happily, one of my brothers still has it.
 
Spike buck with model 12 win pump # 1 buckshot 2 3/4 in mag full choke. I was 22 am 63 now. I was hunting with a friend and he was caring a 12 Ga double. We heard the deer coming it was in flooded brush when it came out he shot for the head I shot for the body. It was about 35 yds. It was his first deer also. So r t of a double!! We loaded it into my VW beetle and I went to town and bought my first deer license!!
My friend died 5 years ago at 58 years old. He thought he had accute indigestion but it was a massive heart attack died before ems arrived. BUMMER

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Mind would be my uncles remington 742 woodmaster carbine in 30-06 I know the 742 isn't the best semi but it has so many memories for me I kill my first buck with it in 2005 and got the buck on my wall right now and for that reason I have always wanted a 742 carbine
 
I posted this last year. Its worth a laugh.

I'm 64. Started hunting age 10. Didn't deer hunt 'till I was mid twenties. My dad said I was a very casual deer hunter. I'd only go maybe three times a season. I never even saw a buck...ever...until about four years ago. He did not offer a shot.

Now, skip to last year (2013). Told wifey,"see you about lunch" and headed out. Took rifle and a seat into the woods. Less than 100 yards from the truck. Seven A.M. movement turns into deer. Several doe are moving back and forth. maybe seventy yards range. Then there is a little chasing going on and I can tell its a nice buck!

He chases four does ( right to left) and they go behind a thicket. Then he trots out. Stops right in front of me (about 60 yds) and turns so that I can only see his "front". I line up the shot and he went down,never moved from that spot. Bullet entered low on his neck right into the heart/lung area. No exit.

There he was. My first deer! Weighed in at 132#, eight point. Not large but nice.

To answer the Op...here is the full line. I was on my grand fathers farm (5 generation) that my dad owned. I was shooting a Win. "94" .30-30 that he gave me for Christmas in '66. Shooting my reloads (170 gr Sierra Power Jacket over 29 gr of IMR4064.) Field dressed him with a knife made by my brother in law.

I was glad to miss lunch that day.

Mark
 
First deer, a lil fork buck that I mistook for a doe (the club that was generous enough to let me hunt for my first deer had a rule on antlers that they should be at least as wide as the ears.....oops), with a borrowed A-bolt in 7mm Rem Mag.
 
Remington 870 pump action 12 gauge. Shot it from the ground at a distance of roughly 5 yards. I was in college at the time and it put a lot of food in my freezer.
 
Remington 760 pump in 35 Rem. Dropped a 4point in it's tracks at 40 yards with my dad in attendance. I was 14. Old Weaver 2.5 scope on it. Damn fine weapon that started as my grandfather's deer gun, then my mom and dad's, and now mine. I will turn 40 later in the month and hopefully the Rem 760 will bring me some luck this year.

Bear "First Strike" 80lb draw at 15 or 20 yards.
 
Remington 700 BDL in .30-06. Late 80's manufacturing if I recall. It's the rifle my Marine Sniper grandfather taught me to "snipe" with. I got lucky at 15 and got my buck and doe about 6 seconds apart.
 
JC higgins 30-06.
Great gun, its a sporterized FN mauser action, and of course I still have it.
 
A Browning A5 that my dad gave me many years ago . I still hunt with it today . I tried retiring it , but I haven't found a shotgun that I like or fits me better .
 
Almost 50 years ago, I took my first deer-a nice, even but small eight point. I was on the ground when 4 deer came trotting by. When they saw me, they slid to a stop-the buck in the rear of the group. Shot it through both lungs and at about 35 yards with a 1917 Eddystone Enfield 30-06 using Remington 220 gr round nose soft point. I didn't have any trouble with lack of penetration!
 
I had bought an old 303 British that had some customization done to the stock just before deer season the year I graduated from high school in 1961. It was my third year hunting deer and I had never seen a buck.

Just after day light a car dropped off a guy not 50 yards from me. I told him if he sat there neither of us was going to see anything. He moved away. Not twenty minutes later a 10 inch spike horn came through with a bunch of does.

Double lung shot and it dropped not 50 yards away.

I sold it to a buddy a couple years later. I bought a Model 100 308 that has rode on my shoulder ever since. Dang there are a lot of miles on that 308.

Typing this got me to thinking. The buddy that I sold the 303 to passed away a week ago. He had moved away years ago and I only saw him at the parents funerals. I wonder if he still had that old 303?
 
This one. Model 336RC of 1952. I shot a 7 point on the run with it in the woods.

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When my father gave it to me when I was 12 it had no blueing on it and had a cracked stock. He told me he thought the barrel was worn out because it wasn't accurate.

I started handloading for it and it was very accurate so I did some work on it.

I still have it, it's one of my favorites. It was my first gun project.
 
Remington 700 in .270 Win. Still have the same rifle, and killed a management doe two a few days ago with it.
 
Marlin levermatic .256 winmag. Button buck at 60 yards. We think he was a cross with the fallow deer in LBL which is just a few miles away as he had a few rows of very faint spots during our November season. He was defiantly old enough to not have fawn spots.
 
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