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A 1965 Remington 700 BDL in .270 Winchester I purchased in 1973 for $120 with paper route money I'd saved.

Pretty elegant post,

But not 19 and 63 old



Here is the carbine 788, running with ram line plastic furniture







Here’s a few decent bucks taken with that little 788. Most all of my others 6.5 Norma or muzzleloader kills.















Can post last 5 years’ non .308 kills too by this old man if ya need em. LOL

The first I carried was a Remington model 8 in 32 Remington. It belonged to my great grandfather. I got to carry it until we saw a deer. He took it, shot the deer and then gave the tank back to me to carry home. The first I owned was a Savage 170 30-30 pump. The rifle shot straight but I couldn't hit Jack Chit with it.

Slum is anything but a liar.

I mentioned I still have it (the 788)



Didn’t have to pawn it cause my old lady took me to the cleaners with divorce papers or needed 200 for set of junkyard heads for a rusted out pos 78 Scottsdale

LOL

bunch of rag horns, has the bolt handle fell off of that 788?
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I was called out to post up or shut up

Get with it old man ^^

* I have NEVER observed a single pic of anything you’ve posted. Maybe wabigoon can teach you how

Winchester 88 in .308

Mine was a Marlin 336 RC in 30/30 with a partial box of 170 gr Remington hollow point CoreLocks (4 missing). I paid $50 for it and the cartridges. My youngest brother was working at
Dairy Queen type place and his manager had some gambling debts. I was glad to help out. I made my money working in grocery stores and drilling water wells. It’s a 1964 mfg date. Weren’t many deer in the Mississippi Delta except over the levee. Never saw a deer in the wild until I was 15 years old and it was a doe that I jumped over the levee at Warfield Point. This was the year before I bought the rifle. Warfield Point was originally a ferry boat crossing at the mouth of Lake Ferguson.
It’s now a state park and near a power plant South of Greenville MS. Used to be a part of Refuge Plantation.

Never said he was. I just said he was old. Boomer material.

I always envied you rich suckers who had real deer guns to hunt with.

67A 22 short,long,long rifle. 3rd grade. They don't run off if hit in the ear or between the eyes.

If moving too fast for that any of the above in a solid put through the lungs tight behind the shoulder and sit tight and quiet 30 min.

Get the old man and point where he went. 80 -175 yds it would lay down and be dead when found.

12 gauge Mossberg 500 Slugster because I could use it in the shotgun zone and the rifle zone. We lived close to the border and I had places to hunt in both zones and limited funds. Killed a buck and a doe on opening morning of my first season with rifled slugs. Bought a lightly used Winchester 94 .30-30 for the rifle zone a year later.

Boy, there are a lot of model 94's, but what surprises me is the number or 742 Remingtons

My grandmother had one in 284 Win. that she won in a raffle. My uncle had one in 243 Win. I'm not sure either of them owned another rifle.

My first deer rifle was a Savage 110 in 30-06 I bought for $120 dollars or so just after ETSing in 1990.

1951 made Marlin 336 RC .30-30, handed down to me by my Grandpa. It sees more hunting than the rest of my rifles put together. My son hunts with it most of the time. He has taken fairly nice bucks with it the past four years. My daughter took her first deer with it too. Grandpa would be very proud!!!

My first deer rifle was the same as the OP, a pre'64 Win. M/88 in .308 with a K2.5 Weaver with post reticle in a weaver pivot mount. Killed my first and biggest whitetail with that rifle, an 11pt. 254# Northern Whitetail buck in iAroostook County, ME.

Remington 760 in 243 Winchester.

My father's gun. He died in a car accident in February 1984. The farmer I helped after school invited me to go to WV that fall and I shot my first deer with it.

Remington 742 in .308

The best I can do old man. I stopped hunting in 2007. But still enjoy the shooting sports.