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What was your very first deer rifle? I'm talking it was yours, not borrowed until you got bigger and so on and so forth, but your very own.

I got it when I was around 8. and it was
a cut down wood stock, mauser action, 250/3000. It wore an old Redfield the first season and a Leupold M8 4x for the rest of it's life with me. I never killed or shot at a deer with it , but it took plenty of groundhogs,rabbits,and crows.

I finally graduated to a Ruger M77 wood/blue, tang safety 30/06 and killed my first deer.

KLM

My first was a result of my first Christmas Bonus at 17 years of age. When the boss handed me that money I went straight to the gun store 50 miles away and bought:

Remington 700 BDL 308 Winchester
Leupold "Gold Ring" 3-9 Vari X-II
Sling & Suede Leather Case
Grand Total: $475

As so many of us say, "I wish I still had that gun." Now, after 35 years of chasing faster cartridges I just bought the same gun used for $600. It did have new teflon coating, new custom 20 ounce Kevlar stock & Timney trigger. The stock cost $580 alone. I think I stole it. It shoots like a Remington should.

I can assure you I will NEVER get rid of this one. I plan to watch my daughter and her children hunt with it.

Savage 99 in .308 given by my grand dad.

Savage 99C in 243... thank you dad!

Killed one deer with it. Still own it, never hunt it anymore...I restocked it at some point, not worth anything to anyone but me...

Remington 700 BDL SS in 7mm-08, from my dad the year before I turned 12, so about ten years ago.

Winchester model 70 XTR Westerner? .264 Win mag with a Trashco scope.

A Weatherby Vanguard serial # 595 in .308 that rifle would shoot.

Doc

Ruger M77, .270 WIN given to me by my wife for my birthday in NOV 1978. Originally it had a K3W Weaver Steel-lite II, but I changed it out around 2003 with a Bushnell Elite 3200 3-9x40. I still own the rifle and still hunt with it - this picture was taken during deer season in 2004.

A converted (sporterized) 30-06 at 9 yrs old.....My dad started me off with a bigger bang!

Remington 700 BDL in.270 Win when I was 14...started hunting a little late. She still goes in the field once in a while

.280 Remington Mountain Rifle

Savage model 99 in 300 savage, my grandfather gun that got handed down to me when I was 14.

Still got it and still shoot it.

Discounting shotguns and muzzleloaders which came first:

Remington 7400, 270 Win.

A New Marlin 336C in .35 Rem.

Nothing real exciting. .270 Rem Mountain Rifle DM. 3X9X40 Vari-X11. I had my first job out of college and was [bleep]&* rich but it was still a lot of money for me. Not exactly what I hunt with now but I tell you what...it will shoot 130 gr coreloks all day long. I guess I have been bitten by the bug. As that rifle will dust anything I care to point it at. By the way if anyone is interested I would sell it. But I'm not about to post it in the classifieds as it would be hard to get rid of.

Marlin 336 in 30-30, put it on lay away in April raked leaved, cut grass and did anything else I could to pay it off over the summer. Worked my azz off. Killed an 8 pt on opening day with it and it was down hill from there.

Push feed M70 sporter.
22-250 with an old Weaver scope.
Whacked several pronghorn, mulies and the random coyote.
If I ever become a father it still oughta fit the bill.

Parker Hale 1200 Super in .243 with a Weaver V9...



Stylin!!!


Ingwe

Marlin 336 30-30 early X-Mas Present in '87 (13 years old)

Think it's jinxed though, never have gotten it bloody

Pre 64 model 70 30gov06 Wish I still had it!!