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Pre-1964 Winchester Model 94 in .32 Winchester Special. I was about 8 years old. Next was a Savage 99 in .308. Shot my first mule deer with it.
James Pepper: There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum? John Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
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8x57 with 170 gr. Winchester Power Points at age 12 (I think). My father didn't like round nose bullets. The 8x57 is very under-rated.
When you can get the last word with an echo, you may have the last word with your wife. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
If goose was the only meat, there would be a lot more vegetarians. - Lloyd Adams, waterfowl hunter
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.30-30 with a steel rifle butt. I weighed 88 pounds at the time and thought it was BRUTAL!  It still is at 220#...
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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A borrowed Winchester 94 in 25-35 , my father's friend let me use for a couple of seasons, took my first deer with it.
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1959...shot my new Savage 99FW 243, and I shot my first antelope with it 62 years ago today, on my birthday. Best present I ever got.
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Lee Enfield, No I MK3* that I bought mail order for 12.95 with my paper route money and I still have it today My first was also purchased mail-order with paper route money, a Mosin-Nagant I "sporterized" myself with the help of one of my father's friends. But mine only cost $9.95!
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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A Winchester Model 94 from the mid-30's in 25-35. I came away with a big bruise because I was totally unprepared for the recoil, since I had only shot a .22lr up till then. That was 45 years ago. I still have the gun and haven't shot it since. I bemusedly relive that painful moment whenever I see the occasional box of 25-35 ammo.
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Winchester 100 .308 borrowed from an uncle for my first deer hunt, I was 13. I thought it was a cannon.
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30-30 I was about six years old. I still have this rifle. Some day I'll give it to my son or son-in-law.
Randy
NRA
Patriot Life Benefactor
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1. M1 Carbine
2. M14
3. M16
4. M134
May God bless Uncle Sam.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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First center fire I shot was a 303 brit Lee Enfield No.4 long Branch in 1966. This one here in fact! My older brother is in the pic, not I I still shoot it out to 1K on occasion Cat ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/6DBAhK8.jpg)
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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Rem 721 30-06 I still gave the brass that my dad ‘made’ me keep. Cracked the clay pigeon at 50 yards
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Marlin 30/30, second was a 98 Mauser in 8mm
Help keep our sport going. take a kid outdoors!
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30-06, my dad bought it as a military surplus in about 1950. Still have it.
I'd rather die in a BAD gunfight than a GOOD nursing home.
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Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk. That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied. Well?
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My dads Marlin Model 36 in 30-30, was 12 years old & man it was brutal !!!
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Marlin 30AW (336 Wal-Mart special)
Got it for Christmas when I was 11. Crazy to think I’ve had the rifle for two and a half decades.
Killed my first deer with it and still like to carry it.
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Dad’s sporterized M98 in 8x57 with a Bishop stock. Weighed a ton but recoil was pretty much non existent.
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