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Winchester 94 in 30-30 purchased in 1978. Still have it.
Shoots pretty dang straight yet too.

ruger M77MKII in .243, still my go to rifle for deer

Marlin 336 in 35 rem. first one that I bought. 700 bdl in 270

Win. 94 in 32 Spl.

Dale

Winchester 70 Westerner .243 with a Weaver 4x. The .243 now wears a Nikon 2-7x and the Weaver is on a .303 Savage.

My first was a Interarms mark x made by EMDEKO in 30/06. These mausers wore p.o.ackley marked bbls and mine had a EMDEKO 3x9 scope. I've heard the plain walnut monte carlo stocks on these were made by bishop. I had hopes of a 7mm rem mag after reading numerous outdoor life stories of elk and mule deer hunts, and looking at remington ballistics charts. The summer of my 11th yr my dad called home, and told my mom to bring me to the gun store.

Imagine my excitment when we walked up to the counter and there lay a mint used 700 adl in 7mag. Beside it laid the reason he called ... a new h&r 20ga single bbl for me. The mint adl with a price tag of $ 170.00 was his. The '06 was a hand me down from him to me. I never liked the '06 from that day on. I traded it for a 68 chevelle when i was 17 yrs old. My dad passed when i was 13, and i carried the 7mag for 35 ys after that.

NEF Handi-Rifle .243

High Standard Flite-King 12 ga. smoothbore pump with a bead front sight. Still have it but it hasn't been hunting since about 1985 or '86. In the thick woods where there's no long shots it's plenty accurate enough for deer with some 2.75" Remington Slugger Foster type slugs. Someday when I hunt the thick stuff in a shotgun zone I'm gonna take it out again just for old times sake. I'm spoiled by big bore handguns, rifles and rifled barrel slug guns. Would that make my High Standard a "primitive" weapon? (grin).

Started with shotguns and slugs, but first rifle was Remington .308 Gamemaster 760 pump. Never was too crazy about it.

Started with shotguns and slugs too H&R topper model 58 12 gauge
My first rifle was a winchester 70 xtr westerner in .264 wm

Rem 788 carbine in .308 bought with lawn mowing, paper route money age 12. Killed 3 deer and an elk. But traded it for .300 win mag savage. Bad trade!

Remington 742 in 30 06, which I won on a 50 cent raffle ticket at the grand ole age of maybe 13 or14

Ditto, almost.
60's vintage and my dad killed the first deer with it.

Win 94 30-30my dad bought from a buddy at work!

M94 Winchester in .30-30

A six digit Remington 700, .243 bought with money earned from mowing lawns. I remember the price well .... $101.89

Remington 742 carbine. Steel butt plate model. Redfield 1 3/4 for awhile then moved uo to a redfield widefield 3x9. Shot 180 gr. RN core lokt minute of deer or better. Not much blue left on it today.

Remington 870 Wingmaster with a Cantilever barrel on it. Dad bought it in 1970.

A Remington 742 30/06 with a Redfield 3x9 widefield, a stomper for a 13 year old snot nose kid.

Mine was a H and R 20 ga. Next my uncle loaned me a pre 64 Winny fwt 243. Then I bought a Savage 270 with my own money and killed my first deer with a gun with it. My very first was with a bow, 2nd ml, 3rd the 270. All in one year.