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First was iron sights. First with scope was a 2.5x Bushnell on a .44 Ruger carbine...of course it was mounted in see through mounts....

Iron sights on a 30-30.

First with Winchester 70/270,iron sights,then in 1972, a 4X Redfield

I used a Rifle.It was scope less!!!Fact is I have never killed a Deer with a Scope.

1984, a Tasco World Class 3-9 sitting on top of a Marlin Mod 336 in 30-30.................HB

A Weaver 2X7

peep sight on an M1 Carbine. 1st deer with a scope was a decade later with a Simmons 4-12x40 on a BRNO ZKK 30-06. Still have the scope and rifle, someday that carbine will be in my safe as well.

Bushnell Trophy 3-9x40 on a Youth M7 .243.

Bushnell 3-9x32 bubble pack special, only the best for me. In fairness I was only 12.

6X Weaver on a Rem 722 .222. 1957 Fourteen years old. The scope is long gone. Still have the rifle.

3x9x40 Tasco Golden Antler

I killed my first several deer with open-sighted rifles. My first scoped rifle had a B&L Balfour 4X in the B&L adjustable mounts. The first animal that I killed with that rifle/scope combination was a Colorado elk on what was primarily a mule deer hunt. The first deer I took was a Texas whitetail later that fall (1964).

Yeah, that scope is still in my gun safe and the mounts are somewhere in my stash of scope parts.

JC Higgins 4X on a JC Higgins Mod 51 3006. Bear

Tasco World Class 2-7x

Used it for a lot of firsts actually--on my first 22 it was used for pigeons, starlings, woodchucks, varmints, whatever. Then it ended up on my first 243 for lots of chucks. Then on my 30-06 for my first few rifle deer.

Sits in a drawer now.

Iron sights with my old 30-30.

Sorry no scope for me..

Iron sight 30-30

no glass

In 1971, a Weaver K4 sitting on a Marlin 30-30. I worked all Summer bagging ice to buy it, and I still have it.

No scope. Actually killed two bucks that day with a Remington 870 20 guage w/ slug barrel and factory iron sites.

Iron sights, Mule deer, with a model 71 Winhester in 348 (was elk hunting). 2nd deer though (whitetail) was with a scoped 25.06AI (Was dumb then and actually believed the bs about it). Don't recall the scope. Actually, the way the question is worded, I'd have to say I've NEVER killed a deer or anything else, WITH A SCOPE.