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Investarms 50 cal. Hawken Carbine
T/C Maxi-ball, 60 grains FFG
Nice doe

This would have been 1989 when Indiana still had an 8 day either sex muzzleloader season.
I was 16.
Still have the muzzleloader.

I used a Remington 742 in 30-06 using 180 grain Musgrave RN ammo.

The exercise turned into a complete fustercluck. Full disclosure here:

Shaman's First Deer

Knight muzzle-loader

Remington 742 30-06 180 Core Lokt 1972.
Received the gun for Christmas 1971.
Tracked and killed a nice 8 pointer in the fresh snow.. I was 16 y/o.
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My Marlin bolt 22 LR 40 gr standard velocity solid.

Mod 88 Winchester in .308 caliber.

Win 94 in 32 Win Special. Age 13. Mulie doe. Looong shot, must have been close to 40 yards.
A couple years later I also got my 1st elk with that gun.

Ford Crown Victoria. Second was with a Dodge Dakota. At that point in my life, I decided that lead was cheaper than chrome, and got the next one with a Sears/Mossberg 20ga smoothbore.

700 BDL 243. Someone turned some dogs out close to me on the next club and they struck and were coming straight to me. I could hear the.deer running to me. I was watching a narrow opening where I thought they would cross. First one out was a buck And he was close. When I moved to shoot. The deer behind him saw me and jumped. I shot at him and hit a yearling that jumped between us.

H&R 12ga single shot.
Jefferson Nat. Forest
As the group of doe tried to slip past I put a 00 buckshot to one, she stood there after the shot while the other 3-4 ran off, I ejected, reloaded closed the breech and instead of cocking ejected again.
Still managed to get a 2nd shot to her but if memory serves it was #4 shot.

But she went down.

Still have the gun.

Remington 1100 with a slug barrel with rifled sites. Ammo was a Brenneke rifled slug.

11-87 Remington with a rifled choke tube and Winchester BRI Sabots.

50 cal muzzleloader with a short camo bull barrel (can't remember the manufacturer), using Barnes all-copper bullet with sabot and FFG black powder. Shot a doe at around 30 yards DRT. I was hunting at my friend's farm and the primitive weapon deer season had just started, so I borrowed my friend's ML. Back then, you could not use optics, so I used the open sights. Hooked me on using a ML and some time after, I bought a SS Knight 50-cal (at that time was the cadillac of MLs).

About 1964 with my dad’s 1954 Remington pump in 270 Winchester. Still killing deer with it once in a while. Had my daughter kill a couple with it. Edk

Killed my first two deer back in the mid 80's with a used Marlin 336 30.30 that I bought from a pawn shop and that had an old Weaver steel tube fixed 4X scope mounted on it....according to the serial number it was made in 1973.

Dad’s buddy was a gun guy that let me borrow a Winchester m64 .30 WCF (.30-30) to gun my first very accommodating forkhorn. The next few years it was his western rifle, a Winchester Pre-64 rather rare .300 WM.

T/C Hawken, .50 cal. percussion, patched ball, 100 grs. black powder. Very effective...

T/C Contender, 14", 357 Max.

1979 Dodge Ramcharger

First deer was with a sporterized Mauser K98k -8x57-170gr Federal SP