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Investarms 50 cal. Hawken Carbine T/C Maxi-ball, 60 grains FFG Nice doe
This would have been 1989 when Indiana still had an 8 day either sex muzzleloader season. I was 16. Still have the muzzleloader.
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I used a Remington 742 in 30-06 using 180 grain Musgrave RN ammo. The exercise turned into a complete fustercluck. Full disclosure here: Shaman's First Deer
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Remington 742 30-06 180 Core Lokt 1972. Received the gun for Christmas 1971. Tracked and killed a nice 8 pointer in the fresh snow.. I was 16 y/o. .
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My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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My Marlin bolt 22 LR 40 gr standard velocity solid.
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Mod 88 Winchester in .308 caliber.
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Win 94 in 32 Win Special. Age 13. Mulie doe. Looong shot, must have been close to 40 yards. A couple years later I also got my 1st elk with that gun.
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Ford Crown Victoria. Second was with a Dodge Dakota. At that point in my life, I decided that lead was cheaper than chrome, and got the next one with a Sears/Mossberg 20ga smoothbore.
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700 BDL 243. Someone turned some dogs out close to me on the next club and they struck and were coming straight to me. I could hear the.deer running to me. I was watching a narrow opening where I thought they would cross. First one out was a buck And he was close. When I moved to shoot. The deer behind him saw me and jumped. I shot at him and hit a yearling that jumped between us.
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H&R 12ga single shot. Jefferson Nat. Forest As the group of doe tried to slip past I put a 00 buckshot to one, she stood there after the shot while the other 3-4 ran off, I ejected, reloaded closed the breech and instead of cocking ejected again. Still managed to get a 2nd shot to her but if memory serves it was #4 shot.
But she went down.
Still have the gun.
FJB & FJT
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Remington 1100 with a slug barrel with rifled sites. Ammo was a Brenneke rifled slug.
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11-87 Remington with a rifled choke tube and Winchester BRI Sabots.
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50 cal muzzleloader with a short camo bull barrel (can't remember the manufacturer), using Barnes all-copper bullet with sabot and FFG black powder. Shot a doe at around 30 yards DRT. I was hunting at my friend's farm and the primitive weapon deer season had just started, so I borrowed my friend's ML. Back then, you could not use optics, so I used the open sights. Hooked me on using a ML and some time after, I bought a SS Knight 50-cal (at that time was the cadillac of MLs).
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About 1964 with my dadβs 1954 Remington pump in 270 Winchester. Still killing deer with it once in a while. Had my daughter kill a couple with it. Edk
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Killed my first two deer back in the mid 80's with a used Marlin 336 30.30 that I bought from a pawn shop and that had an old Weaver steel tube fixed 4X scope mounted on it....according to the serial number it was made in 1973.
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Dadβs buddy was a gun guy that let me borrow a Winchester m64 .30 WCF (.30-30) to gun my first very accommodating forkhorn. The next few years it was his western rifle, a Winchester Pre-64 rather rare .300 WM.
My other auto is a .45
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T/C Hawken, .50 cal. percussion, patched ball, 100 grs. black powder. Very effective...
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First deer was with a sporterized Mauser K98k -8x57-170gr Federal SP
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