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Mine was Wingmaster 870 shotgun w/ a slug barrel. The county that I hunted in NY was shotgun only. Hunted there for 2 seasons then switched to a rifle county and bought a Marlin 336 in 30-30.

Same as you Rem 870 Wingmaster smooth bore,picked it up at a pawn shop

Remington 742 in 30-06 for Kentucky and a Remington 1100 12 GA with an I/C Rifle sighted barrel for Ohio.

Early vintage Weatherby MkV Fibermark in 7mm Wby., the original real McMillan stock version. Topped it with a Leupold Vari-X III 2.5-8x36 in Conetrol rings and bases.

Savage 840, bolt action .30-30, topped with a very cheap POS 2-7X on a side mount.

Tom

Winchester 94 30/30 with a side mounted steel tube Weaver 1.5-4.5 scope.

Savage 99 EG with a Lyman 57. 250-3000.

First deer gun was a Stevens 20 gauge bolt action. Then came a Browning BPS 12 gauge. First deer RIFLE was a Browning Acera in -06.

savage 110 .270

Ruger M77 in 250 Sav. Weaver 4x scope.

First deer rifle - 700 Classic in chambered in 270.

That was a couple of years after hunting shotgun areas with an 870 w/ ribbed, modified barrel and a couple of beads to line up.

M94 Winchester in .30-30, bought it in the summer of 1970, when I was 13. It was the only centerfire rifle I used for deer until the mid-80s, though I had owned others. I just never used them.

Now I will use other rifles, but I always include the M94 in the rotation. I think it's more coincidence than anything, but that rifle seems to score every year. This year was no exception, killing a big-bodied buck on the last day of Virginia's general firearms season.

Savage 99C in .308, topped it with an old style Redfield 2-7 x 32 scope, obtained from a friend.

Still love & used it, almost exclusively !

The Christmas I turned 12, I got a Remington WingMaster 870 w/ 28� mod. Barrel. I deer hunted with that shotgun until I was 18, then I bought a Sears/Glenfield/Marlin .30-30. I deer hunted with that for the next 20 years. In the last I've hunted with a lot of different rifles.

killed my first deer with a stevens 410 bolt action while squirrel hunting after my older brother slipped me a slug and
said i'm killin me a deer if i see one. thought dad was going to kill me after that one.it wasn't exactly deer season yet. first legal one was with a 7.65 argentine that i borrowed from my uncle. he still has that gun ,i've been tryin to buy it from him for years.first gun i bought myself to deer hunt with was a mossberg 800 in 308win.

Borrowed a couple of family 30-30s the few times I hunted in high school. Several years ago when I got back into hunting I bought a Rem 710 in 30-06. It wasn't a great rifle to say the least, and neither was the scope that came with it. However, it did drop 4 of the 5 deer I ever pointed it at, and I figure the 5th was my fault. Thankfully, I have since learned a lot about nicer rifles and optics, and that one is long gone.

My first was given to me by my mother at the age of 15--a Savage 111 in 7mm Rem Mag...with a hard plastic butt pad...and so developed the 'flinch'.

Yeah that'll do it. Did ya over come the flinch?

browning blr .243. took my first 3 deer with it including a nice 8pt. will probably pull it out and put a new scope on it and put it to some use next season

savage 99 EG in 300sav. Didn't know I needed anything else until I got older and "smarter".

MM