Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What did you use to kill your first deer?

1962, a great mule deer buck, near La Pine Oregon, 1 shot running with a 30:06. Somewhere around that same timeframe I killed my first elk, near the Billy Meadows Ranger Station, in NE, Oregon, with the same rifle.

Winchester 94, 3030, New York State, my father gave me one round and said make it count I wanted to fill up the tube up lol but It did count..

Same bullet, too?

‘86 Chevy Nova at 110 fps.

1976. He was running uphill past me on a drive. Shot him in the ass with Ye Olde 240 JSP. broke both hips. Still hunt with the gun but my daughter bogarts it when she's hunting.

I used a Remington 740 30-06. First rifle I bought, serial number 13,010, first year made 1955.

Savage 1899 in 250-3000, 1965.
Still have it .

Running shot with a model 99 300 Savage. Hit it in the horn and knocked it out. Came alive a little later.

Savage 110, 30.06

Remington 870 12 gauge with a 30” mod choked barrel, S & W slug. Southern Minnesota

Ruger Ultralight in .308 with a 130gn Speer HP took a small fallow buck.

Winchester model 1894 30-30 rifle I got from my grandfather. Running shot right through the heart ant about 60 yards on an average size pacific mule deer doe. At 14 my dad thought I had missed and hauled a friend’s doe he had shot in the same small herd. I stayed to track - found her right behind the first tree she ran behind. Ran the mile to the cabin to get dad & the truck.

1920s vintage 1894 Winchester saddle ring carbine in 30-30. The rifle was traded to my grandfather in the Depression for work in lieu of cash.

The saddle ring was rumored to have been removed my father at age 16 because “it made too much noise in the woods” - the stud was still there, and an old Lyman or Redfield peep was added.

It was a complete #%^# show on my part, but we ended up with a big fat whitetail doe and I gained a number of painful lessons that day.

250 Sav……

I killed my first deer with the Remington model 700 .308 with a Bushnell trophy 3-9 X 40 on it.

Remington 700 BDL LSS Mtn rifle, 30-06, 125 BTips that Grandpa and I loaded.

Winchester Model 88 chambered in .308 Win.

Savage 99E in .308W. Soon sold it to my brother and got my first left hand deer rifle.

45-70 Marlin, 300 gr Horn hand load.

One shot, nice 6 pt, DRT from a MS tree stand.

I was in my late 20’s.

DF

I used a 12 ga 870 Wingmaster here in Iowa and the sight (the same one you used?) adhered to the receiver with an adhesive backing. It was about 9-10” long and was very malleable. You’d bend the front tip and back fork whichever way you needed as the means to sight in. Regular 28” barrel with fixed M choke.

As I recall, I could keep the Foster slugs, about the only thing available then, in a paper plate at 90 yds or so. Walked up a big dry doe in a thigh-high dirty corn field (we used to have those). Straight-away shot. Broke her pelvis and severed the femoral artery. It was about a 20 yard recovery.