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The thread about what you used to take your first deer was interesting, and has some photos. But thought it would also be interesting to see us. This is my first deer, a muley doe taken with my father's Marlin .30-30. The photo was taken by Norman Strung, the well-known outdoor writer who passed away in 1991--a friend of my father, and one of my major mentors in the writing business. (For those interested, black and white film was the standard back then, except for a few bigger magazines. This was taken with a twin-lens Rollieflex--back then considered a top professional camera.
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Didn't have a camera back when I took my first buck back in the 50s.
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Photo of a photo from my Mom’s scrapbook. Fork by spoon whitetail buck from SWOK. Shot him and my next two bucks with my Great Grandfather’s Remington 760 chambered in 244. Oddly enough all three of the little bucks I shot with that rifle weighed 97lb dressed.
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Congratulations…….I’m envious!
I was 11 yo by 10 days. Killed a small racked 4x4 Whitetail when hunting with my grandfather. No photos were taken, thankfully I still have that little rack. memtb
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I probably posted this in the other thread, but hey, it was a proud moment. I was 13. About a 200ish yard shot across a hollow in a snow storm. Still remember it like yesterday.
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Looks like you blew the back legs off John. Good Job/
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My very first deer was an unlucky blacktail doe that I whacked with a borrowed 30-30 Win M94. The 2nd was a husky 3pt with a sporterized Springfield 30-06. But no one ever carried a camera back then. So all I can offer up is deer #3, a dinky little forked horn. It's maybe more important that the first two deer anyway, as it was on a hunt where my brother and I camped under a tarp in the back of my pickup truck and hunted totally on our own. It was in the Cascade mountains near Howard Prairie Lake in southern Oregon. Win M88 in .284 and my own handloaded 130gr Speer Hot Core bullet. I'm 16 years old in the photo.
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My first deer was taken with a Smith and Wesson Model 1500, 7mm Rem Mag. Maybe 1984 or 1985
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I have no idea where the pic of my first deer is. I'd have to dig through the photo albums at my parents. My son got this first deer this year.
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Cool pics.
Not real sure but I believe there are only pictures of 4 and maybe 5 deer that I have killed. Rare there was a camera and if there was we generally never worried too much about taking pictures. Same with turkeys. I think there may be 3 pictures of me with a gobbler.
At times I wish we had taken more.
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I have no idea where the pic of my first deer is. I'd have to dig through the photo albums at my parents. My son got this first deer this year. That kid couldn't get any bigger grin if he tried. Good stuffs right there!👍🏻👍🏻
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I have no idea where the pic of my first deer is. I'd have to dig through the photo albums at my parents. My son got this first deer this year. That kid couldn't get any bigger grin if he tried. Good stuffs right there!👍🏻👍🏻 Haha. Agreed!
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Looks like you blew the back legs off John. Good Job/ Nope! Spotted the deer's wide-spread ears early in the morning amid the juniper/ponderosa above us, while Norm drove his Dodge Power Wagon up the road in the bottom of a sagebrush draw. Told him to stop, and I eased up through the timber. The deer had bedded by then, and when it stood up about 40 feet away, quartering toward me, I put the crosshairs of the 4x scope on the base of the neck, and it dropped right there. The bullet broke the spine. The photo was taken after field-dressing the deer, which Norm supervised. This was partly because the light when I shot was too dim for the camera and film--but it was also because both of us wanted the meat to cool as soon as possible. Which is why the hindquarters look like that. It's still one of the biggest muley does I've taken...and even today I kind of specialize in big muley does.
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The thread about what you used to take your first deer was interesting, and has some photos. But thought it would also be interesting to see us. This is my first deer, a muley doe taken with my father's Marlin .30-30. The photo was taken by Norman Strung, the well-known outdoor writer who passed away in 1991--a friend of my father, and one of my major mentors in the writing business. (For those interested, black and white film was the standard back then, except for a few bigger magazines. This was taken with a twin-lens Rollieflex--back then considered a top professional camera. I regret to say any pics of my first few deer or antelope are long lost...
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Great thread MD. Dad took me mule deer hunting in 1971 in the Trans Pecos region of West Texas when I was 11 yrs old. I've been hooked ever since.
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This was my second buck. I'll have to dig for a picture of my first. My brother had killed his early. It was a real wall hanger in those days. I believe I had spooked this buck earlier in the day. Amid a snowstorm again, he came out of a cutover thicket just before dark. The old .300wm did it's work. My grandfather had a buddy hunting with us who was none too happy for fear of getting snowed in. I hadn't given it any thought....
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Me with my nephew when he got his first deer. Oh, yeah, he used my .30-30 Marlin that I then gave him. One of my best days....
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I don't have a picture of my first deer which I took at the age of 9. I grew up in CO and back then you couldn't hunt big game until you were 14. Both my father and grandfather thought that was a dumb law so at the age of 9 I took a mulie buck on my grandfather's tag with a Win Model 1894 in 30-30. The statute of limitiation has long run out and my grandfather is long dead. The first buck I took on my own license was when I was 14 and it was a fork horn mulie I shot with a 7mm Rem Mag. Not the best picture but this was in 1976 and we didn't have digital cameras back then and the old Polaroid photo is deteriorating. The next year I took my first bull elk, a spike bull, with the same rifle. This was 1977 and spikes were legal game in CO back then.
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They didn’t have photographs when I killed my first
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