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.45 cal Esopus swivel breech muzzle loader with patched round ball. My 1st deer was a doe at about 40yds in the mid 70's. Back then does could only be taken with a bow or muzzle loader.
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Buddy of mine saw me hunting with an SKS.......he handed me a ruger #1b .270 with a leupy 3x9.....said here, use a real rifle.......
1994, December 26, took my first deer with that rifle......the shot covered a whopping 10 yds.........
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Savage 110 in 243 with a 4x scope (weaver?). Borrowed from a relative and used handloads that I assembled under his tutelage. I was 15.
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Buddy of mine saw me hunting with an SKS.......he handed me a ruger #1b .270 with a leupy 3x9.....said here, use a real rifle.......
1994, December 26, took my first deer with that rifle......the shot covered a whopping 10 yds......... Haha. Good thing you had a real rifle!
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I used a knight muzzleloader with a tasco world class 3.5-10. Shot the deer freehanded at 70 yards at 8 years old.
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I borrowed a Winchester 70A .243 from my cousin to kill my first deer. I had a Winchester 94, but I couldn't shoot it for schitt, so I borrowed his "spare" rifle and killed a little deer with it. My eyesight has never been real good, and the 4X All American Lyman scope on the .243 helped a lot. I killed another buck a couple of years later with another .243 (my own, this time), but switched to a .270 a couple of years after that. Been using the .270s ever since.
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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. Sounds like you and I grew up in same place
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Marlin 336 30-30, 125 gr hollow point, tasco 3-9x32 scope, 10 yrs old.
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Browning BLR in 308 Win. Simmons 3x9 scope, using Remington 150gr ammo...more than 40 years ago and remember it like it was yesterday
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Bear 45 pound recurve with fiberglass arrows tipped with a 6 bladed wasp broadhead.
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Remington 1100 12 gauge 2 3/4 00 Buck. Small 7 point at maybe 20 yards. The whole load caught him in the neck. He literally stood on his head.
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Bear Pro Specialist 70# compound and Easton 2117 arrows. Bear super razorhead. 1986 I believe. Next 3 were with a Rem. 11-87 Premier. They had just came out when I purchased it. Gave 361.50 for it. Still have the box and receipt. 3 " Nickle buckshot over dogs.
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" Might as well hit what you're aiming at, it kicks the same whether you miss or not"
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16 gauge Ithaca M37, shooting a slug through the modified, bead front sight only barrel. Good enough at 10 or 15 yards. Heart shot, blood trail you could have followed in the dark. He only went about 25 yards if that.
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Remington 788 .308 carbine wearing a 4x Weaver.
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I was 16 and didn’t know anything about deer hunting, but something made me want to try it. I borrowed a boat paddle Ruger in 30-06 from a friend’s dad for my first deer hunt and killed a good 10 point 15 minutes after sunrise. It took 8 years to shoot a better buck. I hated that 30-06 though, so I bought myself a Remington 25-06 the next year.
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Remington Model 760 pump action 30-06 with factory iron sights. That would have been about 58 years ago.
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16 gauge Ithaca M37, shooting a slug through the modified, bead front sight only barrel. Good enough at 10 or 15 yards. Heart shot, blood trail you could have followed in the dark. He only went about 25 yards if that. My first gun was a winny model 37, 16ga, 30 " full choke... My dad thought I could kill a deer with it if need be, whenever he wasn't using it for roadside Turkey shoots.... He couldn't drive past a roadside Turkey shoot without stopping..... I never took a deer with that gun, but a stepson took his first deer with it.
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Savage 340 bolt action carbine in 30-30, with open sights, about 5 yards on a fork horn mule deer. 150 grain Remington Corelokt.
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