Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What did you use to kill your first deer?

Marlin 336C in .35 Remington with a 3X Leupold scope
Rifle was about 9 years old.
200 grain Remington bullet-30 yards - 7 pointer Carbon County, PA.
Second day of the buck season.

1989 Ruger M77 Tang Safety 280Rem loaded with a 156gr Norma Oryx.

~90-100 yard shot broadside on an 8pt whitetail buck on a trot. Shot hit a little farther back than point of aim, double lunged him through the ribs. He ran about 50 yards into a corn field and fell over

I hunted with my dad as a kid but then was out of hunting for about 15 years and only recently have gotten back into it in the last 5 or 6 years. This was my first deer of my own and took place in 2021. The deer dressed out at 187lbs and is currently on my wall. It's odd to me how it worked out, was one of those days where everything seemed to go "wrong" but still makes me smile. I ended up getting out to the blind much later than I would have liked, sat in a spot that has not been hunted for many years prior and had standing corn on both sides of me with about a 150 yard gap in between. A new to me rifle that I picked up a few months before on a trip and only about 90 mins of light left. He stepped out of the west corn field headed to the east edge of the second field through the gap. I had no knowledge or sightings of him on that farm before that day. He was the only deer I saw that outing as well. Sometimes its more luck than anything I have come to learn.

Winchester Model 70 XTR in .338 Win Mag.

It way over penetrated.

Ithica 10 gauge. 3 yard shot in chest and found slug just under skin by deer ass-hole when gutted it out.

I went from a browning nomad to a pse thunderbolt, to a mthews switchback. Wish I still had that switchback.

Winchester M-100 in 308

Remington 1100 12ga with 00Buckshot.

My Dads 12ga Savage 726 (browning auto 5 clone) with home made peep sight, & foster slug.
This was his only shotgun, which he used mostly for grouse & pheasants.

Ben Pearson bow and a wasp 100

12 yrs old

I was probably 40 or 45 before I got a deer with a bow. I’ve gotten a few Aoudads with my bow also

When I was a kid, you were allowed to bow hunt sooner than rifle hunt - state regs so that's why, I think, I got one with that first. Was the quickest way into the woods with a chance to put meat on the ground. Plus its fun. My dad was always more of a bowhunter than rifle guy. Even today - he has a rifle, uses it but it stirs no emotions. He doesn't get excited for it. Bowhunting, even in 70's - he's all over it. Shotgun - all over it (in the past, retired now lol). Rifle or pistol wasn't his thing and as kids, we were enthusiastic about the things our parents were.

Remington 760 pump in 243. Remember everything about it like it was yesterday.

760 30-06.

A hand-me-down Savage 99 EG .300 Savage. It was loaded with the W-W 150 grain Silvertip factory ammo that came in the old Red, Black, Orange and White boxes.

22 LR

Win Model 1894 in 30-30. I was 9 years old. Deer was a fork horn mulie. The rifle was my late father's and I still have it.

Was that at night or in the daytime. Is a .22 LR legal for deer in Oklahoma?

A 67 Camaro.

It was in broad daylight 50 some odd years ago. No it's not legal to use a 22 LR for deer in Oklahoma, then or now, but the statute of limitations has long since ran out.

Winchester Model 100 in .284 Win. handloaded Speer 130 grain and IMR-4350. Killed my second in the same field. Longest shots I've ever made.