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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. When I was 8 years old my dad did start me hunting with a 20 gauge H&R Topper with slugs. I just can’t imagine hitting much with those things much beyond 25 or 30 yards. I was 13 when I killed my first deer with his 243. We were far from rich.
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Weatherby Vanguard deluxe 338 win mag. In one eye out the other. Buddy looked at him and says “ you sucked the brains out of him. dayum. So close to missing the deer. I'm just curious. Evidently broadside deer, why would you aim at an eye, assuming you were trying to hit the brain?
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Winchester M70 .308 and still shooting it.
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I think it was 1978 with the Marlin 336 in 30-30 that my folks bought for me the year before.
It still goes for a walk with me every year. (The rifle, not the deer.)
Wag more, bark less.
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A left handed flint lock 50 cal muzzleloader when I was 12. That was 37 years ago. Still have the gun.
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Remington 700 ADL in 30-06 with a Tasco 3 X 9 scope, both bought from Wal-Mart in 1987 when I was a sophomore in high school. 180 gr. Remington Core-Lokt. I still have that rifle. It is now topped with a Leupold VX3 3.5 x 10 and shoots 150 gr. Barnes TTSX.
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Marlin 336A in .30 - .30.
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More shotguns than I thought there would be. I never considered vehicles, didn’t get one with a vehicle until I was 68 in Georgetown by the HEB. I was looking back in the rear view to see if trailer cleared a car, looked to front, caught a flash of white. I thought I hit a child. It scared hell out of me. Thank goodness it wasn’t. Killed my second deer with a Winchester 1200 with a load of 00 buckshot. That was all that was allowed on Fort Lee in southeast Virginia. Expat
"There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men." - Robert Heinlein
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My father's Western Field .30-30-- a Montgomery Ward "store brand" Marlin 336. The ammo was also Western Field, probably made by Federal. He bought it at the local "Monkey Ward" retail store, three blocks from our house in Bozeman, Montana--and the ammo was also Western Field, probably made by Federal. It was a package deal with a fixed 4x, made by Light Optical of Japan. The range was about 40 feet, in ponderosa pine timber. Could only see the shoulder area through the scope, but the doe dropped right there. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/243704.jpg)
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John Steinbeck
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Ruger .44 Deerslayer with the fancy stock....mild monte carlo, finger groove forend, and no barrel band. 2 3/4 Redfield with post and crosshair. 240 gr Federal blue box. !979 IIRC. Head on 8 pt. between the eyes at 20 yards. Flipped him backwards head over heels.
One of three or four pieces traded in for a 14' alumacraft jon boat for waterfowling. Should have kept it in hindsight but it grouped about 4" at best at 100 yards and I had not yet learned that most Michigan deer are taken at 60 yards or less.
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Tikka 30-06 with a Leupold vx-1 scope.
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Martin Cougar II compound, Rothhaar Snuffer broad head. 1982
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Winchester 1917, 30-06. Killed mule deer with it in 1961.
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Win 88 .243, Redfield widefield scope, win ammo irrigated to get the funds
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Marlin 336 in 30-30 using 150gr Federals in Nov 1979
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My first deer was killed with a $90 Bear compound bow I bought at K-Mart. It was in October of 1990. (I was broke.)
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Sako .243 using 90gn Sako factory ammo.
One and only time I used factory stuff on deer.
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First deer was with my Father's Ruger 44 mag carbine, semi-auto. A gun he used to keep his freezer full when he was younger! Red-dot on top is a great little brush gun.
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1955 Winchester Model 37 12ga single shot. First kill November of 1978. My father paid $20 for it at the local hardware store. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/xpb3WQ3l.jpg)
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