Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What was your first deer rifle?

Interestingly enough I bought a Weatherby Vanguard in .308 a few years back and I paid $225 for it new at Walmart… 45 years after you paid about the same for yours.

You paid a handsome sum for yours back in 1974 and all the lawns you mowed and the anticipation you felt is what makes your rifle special while my Vanguard is just another rifle.

Well Mister

It was back in 19 and 63 I got a furlough from Johns Manville

When ole mr big stepped to me, 3 hunnered o’ nato them other ole timers call it

I gits my dates mixed up.

My first deer rifle was actually two rifles, a Remington 660 in 6mm REM for over-watching pastures, cut corn fields, and utility ROWs, and a Ruger 44 International for still-hunting in cover or driving. When I started the Remington had a Weaver V7 and the Ruger had a K3. Now the Remington has an old Vari-X II 2-7x28 and the Ruger has an old Vari-X III 1.5-5x20.

Post or shut up! What rifle? Stop your BS!

Lightly used Remington 700 BDL in .30-06 with a Redfield WideField 3X-9X on top. That rifle shot Remington 180 gr. round-nose Core-Locts into tiny groups. The trigger was perfect. Of course I traded it for something that I don't remember in a fit of youthful foolishness.

RS

Savage 110 30.06 wood/blue.

Savage/Springfield Model 840 in 30-30

LOL

here it is

Like i said

Foremost 6400 (J C Penny Savage) 30-30. Dad bought it for my birthday/Christmas present n 1970. Still has the original 4x Weaver Frontier. Shoots real good with Hornady Leverevolution ammo.

Rem 788

still have it

Dude….you are old.

I bought my own first deer rifle at age 14. My Dad didn’t really hunt, and what little he did was with a shotgun!

It was 1967 and I bought a Winchester Model 88 in .308 Win. It took me almost a year of saving my Pecan money and a few yard mowings to get the dollars needed! memtb

Early 80’s Remington 700 ADL in 270. Still have it.

Remington 742 Woodsmaster in 30.06 for Chritmas in 1975. It was minute of deer and offered a fast follow up shot at deer running ahead of dogs in Arkansas.

browning 78 in 6mm

Sako Finnbear in 30-06

That was my second rifle that I saved up for and had my stepfather buy for me in 1976. Put a 3-9x Redfield on it. I kept it for five years and sold it.

Winchester21, What a great rifle they were! Mine was the same. I wanted the 64 rather than the 94 because of the longer barrel. It sure did take its share of Adirondack whitetail.

Ruger no 1 in 25/06 wanted one in 220 swift but n c law would not allow 22 cal. For deer at that time so I moved up a notch. Still got it

First one I used was a .303 Brit. First one that was mine was aRem 742, first one I bought was a Ruger m77 MKII.