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Day before Thanksgiving 1956. Four pointer dressed 156lb,with 6.5 x 257 Arisaka.
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Got my first deer with a customized Korean war trophy rifle that had been restocked, bolt bent and rechambered to .308. It originally belonged to a cousin who brought it back from his paid trip to Korea and had all the work done. The deer was a button buck that snuck up behind me while I was sitting on the ground leaned back against a tree. Thought it was a squirrel that had been pestering me for the past hour and turned around and we were nose to nose about 18" apart. I slowly turned back around and waited until his head was behind a small tree about 6-8ft away and raised up the rifle and got him.
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Day before Thanksgiving 1956. Four pointer dressed 156lb,with 6.5 x 257 Arisaka.
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Model 94 in 32 special. Same one my dad used for his and my mom used for her one and only.
Brother has it now.
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I got my first deer with a Ruger M77 (tang) 270 Win. Still have that gun.
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H&R single barrel 410, slug, aimed behind shoulder, hit it in the neck, pop drop, fall of 1971, 8 years old. where in hell did that near 53 years go? ; ]
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H&R single barrel 410, slug, aimed behind shoulder, hit it in the neck, pop drop, fall of 1971, 8 years old. where in hell did that near 53 years go? That can't be right I've been reading and have been told all my life about how ineffective that a .410 shotgun was. Same for a 30/30. I've been getting sideways looks everytime I've killed something with one
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Dec 1988 with 00 buckshot in a Mossberg 500 12ga.
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1986 i killed a small 8 point with my tc 50 caliber muzzleloader built from a kit and still have both the deer mounted, and the rifle
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Ben Pearson bow and a wasp 100
12 yrs old My first compound bow was a Ben Pearson 50#. This was back in the late 70s. Back then we could use Anectine pods. As kids, we could walk into the local pharmacy and buy the stuff.
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H&R single barrel 410, slug, aimed behind shoulder, hit it in the neck, pop drop, fall of 1971, 8 years old. where in hell did that near 53 years go? That can't be right I've been reading and have been told all my life about how ineffective that a .410 shotgun was. Same for a 30/30. I've been getting sideways looks everytime I've killed something with one LOL, yep, have heard and received same looks, quick story, i rattled up a buck for a bud, he swore he shot it dead in the chest and was dogging his scoped lever 30-30, i had loaded 170gr partitions for him at 2240 fps, great load, we followed blood till it petered out, old man that owns that place showed me a pic of a buck that next spring on the minerals with left shoulder hide healed up from a bullet skimming by, like you cut it with a knife. Never told my bud about the pic, but did go home and immediately mark calendar for September to contact him for a rifle zero prior to season opener, yep, you guessed it, his rifle was over a foot right at 100 yards, i got him zeroed and ready, last check he was still using that setup.
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Marlin 1893 30-30. Grandpa bought it from some "Russian trappers", according to family lore. As the youngest of 10, Dad wound up with it. I was almost 12 years old.
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Marlin 336 30-30, Weaver K4, 150gr corelokt. Trans Pecos mule deer in Texas, 1971.
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Killed my first with a break open 410 single shot and a slug, Winchester I believe. Shot a spike about 20 yards and broke its neck. I was 6.
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My Dad's 300 Savage. Factory ammo. Iron sights. I am unsure of the year but I was VERY young when Dad got me started. I would guess it was about 1961 or 1962
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I too am shocked by the amount of folks first deer that were killed with a shotgun. I really had no idea.
I killed my first deer, a 5 point buck, 35 years ago. I used my dad’s Winchester pre 64 Model 70 in 243 with 100 grain Remingtons.
He gave it to me as a Christmas gift this year. It was kind of emotional and pretty fantastic.
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Rem 710 30-06. It's long gone and I don't miss it.
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I too am shocked by the amount of folks first deer that were killed with a shotgun. I really had no idea. . Where I'm from kids back then usually only had two guns to learn to hunt with, a .22 and a shotgun. Unless you were rich Deer Rifles were for grown ups so you learned to hunt deer with shotgun slugs. My first was on Thanksgiving Day 1978, with a beat-to-hell-and-back 12 gauge Wards-Western pump, and a Remington green hull pumpkin ball slug. A doe that somebody else had gut shot and didn't follow up. Was headed back to the house for Thanksgiving dinner when Dad and I jumped it up. Started tracking it in the snow and found it laying down again. Mom was mad we were late for dinner messing with getting that deer out.
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A Remington 7400 carbine 1990. Was home on leave from the Army.
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