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I used a 270 Remington model 710

56 Chevy

Savage 110 3006 with a bushnell scope.

A 1958 production Model 94 Wichester .30-30, with a Lyman aperture sight and PMC 150 grain factory loads.

Montgomery Wards western field 243

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Who made the rifle for Montgomery Ward?

My first deer was in 1979. My dad and i hunted central Wisconsin with recurves. It was warm so i was wandering aalong a trail and happened to get within 20 yrds of two deer.
I shot, hit was a little far back and blood was sparse. Dad helped me track and we found it 70 yrds from where it was standing.

Ruger M77 Ultra Light in 250 Savage. Redfield Widefield 2x7. Probably a 100 spire point.

Who held the light?

1987, 17 years old. Ruger #1V 6mm Rem with handloaded 100 gr Hornady BTSP. I watched the buck come towards me from 100 yards until he stopped facing me at 30 yards. I was shaking like a leaf, and pulled the shot so hard I hit him under the chin. He flipped over backwards, and that was that. I got blood all over me from gutting him, so I knocked on the front door with my elbow when I got home. My mom opened the door and I said " I got a deer!" My mom said "no, you're kidding". I said "yep, I'm kidding. I killed all the neighbors."

Model 94 my dad bought at the RAF Alconbury Rod and Gun club, in June 66, before we came back stateside to Pope AFB in the middle of Ft Bragg. I took my first deer that fall with that rifle. 30/30.

Still own that rifle also...probably taken a dozen or so deer with it over the years. As I got older and needed glasses to hunt with... I didn't use it as much since it wasn't set up with a scope on it.

As I have aged, I love the 30/30 case or its bullet speed. I load a lot of different calibers to hunt with, that duplicate 30/30 MV out of bolt action rifles... from 243 to 338/06. Most of the deer I've ever taken have been at 200 yds or under.

My guess would be Mossberg, probably a model 800B. I have the 800A model in .308 Win. that my dad bought me from Kmart in the 60s. In fact it was the rifle I shot my first deer with.

.44 Mag lever action marlin. Doe about 70yds away. I was maybe 12 or 13.

My parents' boss took me with him and his son. They'd taken me and my dad the day before (dad was never really into deer hunting) but he couldn't go the 2nd day due to my granddad having some health issues. So they said they'd take me themselves. Me, their boss and his son who's about my age got in a ground blind on a hardwood ridge between 2 pastures and nailed a doe traveling between the two.

Old Sako L46, 222rem, appx 150yds, took a 6pt, one shot right behind the ear, he dropped like something fell on him out of the sky! Had an old Leupold, thinking 3x9?

I was about 15 years old, got a part time job at Goose Hill gun club, picking birds and setting trap at night. The club picked up a new 700 bdl 30-06. My dad came home and told me to grab my gun. Open sights. I sat on the back of his flat bed pickup and he drove me down the road and turned around. There were 2 deer in a field about 75 yards. One was a forked buck. Dad told me to shoot it in the neck. I did and it went down. I left the gun in the truck and went after the deer. It was running a head of me . It was in a field what they call milo. There was a lot of blood. I grabbed the deer by the horns and cut his throat. I had just grazed his throat. I learned a lot that day. I killed 4 deer with that gun, re barrel to 270 and sold it. Alan

An old Savage, 12 gauge, pump that my dad bought from Service Merchandise in 1980(or somewhere thereabouts). Shot a whitetail doe with #4 buck. Dropped her where she stood at about 40 yards. Yes, I still have that gun!

Winchester Super X Model 1, plain MOD barrel, Western 7/8 oz lead slug in November 1976 at Aberdeen Proving Ground MD, I was 20 and at the Ordnance School. Still have the shotgun and one box of the slugs.

11 years old, sitting on my dad's lap. Remington 700 BDL 7mm Rem. Mag, 150gr CoreLokt. I only know the specific bullet because that's always been the only bullet my dad would use. Shot a doe in the neck at about 50 yards, she flipped over backwards and rolled another 50 yards.

11 y/o with a 788 carbine in 7/08. Still have it

Early 70's 700 BDL 270 with 130 Hornady over H4831