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Winchester 94 30/30, first season I could deer hunt at 16. Day after Thanksgiving deer drives with family and friends, the rifle was my uncle’s but he didn’t want to go and let me use it. Popped a doe on the last drive.
Twenty some years later he passed away and my aunt gave me the rifle after finding out my history with it. A few years after that I took it out one afternoon with the idea of filling a doe tag for old times sake. About a half hour before sunset a coyote came cruising by, dropped the hammer on the gun for just the second time and had my second first. What state was it that restricted you to age 16 to hunt? NY, but they did lower firearms to 14 and bows to 12 a few years ago. Small game is 12, was 14 in my day.
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In New York State I had to wait until I was 16 to hunt deer with a gun & was required to be accompanied by someone at least 18 yrs old. Small game minimum age was 14. The minimum age is now 12 for all hunting.
Most of the state was limited to shotguns. (rifled shotguns had not been invented yet)
Now most of the state allows any center fire rifle, but I live in one of the areas that remains shotgun only. Damn.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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An iron sight, bolt action, Coast To Coast 30-30
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First deer (doe) sometime early 80s, was killed with a Bear Whitetail Hunter compound using 2117 Gamegetter arrows and Satellite broadheads.
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Marlin 336 Rifle in .32 Win Spcl. Still have it!
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, used up, worn out, bottle of Jim Beam in one hand and a .45 in the other, loudly proclaiming WOW-- What a Ride!"
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Winchester model 94 in 32 Winchester Sp given to me by my grandfather. About 1976. Killed a nice buck with it this year as well. 2023. You do the math... 
"You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass"
~Admiral Yamamoto~
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~
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1st deer...a VW Jetta...
First with a firearm was a 50 cal CVA mountain rifle. A Win 94 in 32 WS was my first centerfire deer kill.
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1st deer...a VW Jetta...
First with a firearm was a 50 cal CVA mountain rifle. A Win 94 in 32 WS was my first centerfire deer kill. Hope your VW Jetta deer kill didn't take out the radiator. My VW Rabbit was still driveable. But that car is still as bad a car as I've ever had
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[quote=Centennial]1st deer...a VW Jetta...
First with a firearm was a 50 cal CVA mountain rifle. A Win 94 in 32 WS was my first centerfire deer kill. Hope your VW Jetta deer kill didn't take out the radiator. My VW Rabbit was still driveable when I hit the deer. But my VW ended up needing 5 new alternators in a few years. Great engineering VW. I had 3 horrible cars in a row back then, the VW was the middle but all were pisspoor.
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Young Roe buck 1975, with open sight Mannlicher 6.5x 54mm, firing 160gr round nose bullets.
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12 gauge with 000 buckshot.
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Marlin 336 .30-30 circa 1971 with a Bushnell Banner 1.5-4x scope and sight through rings. 150 gr Corelokts. Deer was a spike and I was 16.
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If you love someone set them free
If they come back no one else liked them
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First deer was a doe with a Bear Grizzly II compound bow.
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62 Chevy 3/4 ton 4WD pickup....
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Had one of those. 300 hp 350 small block. Made that little car scoot.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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