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My first deer rifle was 35 rem. lever action with peep sites. Shot 3 bucks my first 3 years. My dad's first gun as my grandfather's old 30-30. He was 12 or 13 and got his first buck with it and was a 10 pointer. What was your first deer rifle? And did you get a deer your first year?
It's gotta be the CHEEZE.........! To all thoose tree hugging-bunny& Bambi luvin'- don't eat meat people.............A BOOT TO THE HEAD!!!!
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788 Remington in 6mm Rem. with a 3x9 Bushnell scope
Good Shooting, HBB
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Courage is Fear that has said its Prayers
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30-40 Krag. got passed down to the youngest son finally. He doesn't even hunt and married a woman who won't even allow him to keep it in his house! I have tried to beg, buy or trade him for it and he won't do either. It sits in a closet at my mother's house gathering dust.
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Marlin 336 30-30 with open sights. Killed my first deer, an 8 point, my second year hunting by myself at 14. Stupidly traded away when I was 17 or 18.
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Ruger MKII .338 Win Mag. It was the first centerfire rifle I ever owned, but I didn't get it until I was 22. I deer hunted from 10-12 with a 20ga and moved on to a 12ga from there.
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My first deer rifle was a M 94 30-30. Didn't kill a deer with it. First centerfire I bought was a Savage 99 in 308, and killed my biggest deer with it, a year after I bought it- over 35 years ago!
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I started hunting small game as soon as I could walk. I didn't have a choice, my Dad made me go. Mostly I remember falling down after tripping on stuff the like of which didn't grow in our yard. My obsession with deer hunting didn't come until I was about 14 or so. Here in east Texas (30 something years ago) you only had two guns (if you were lucky), a .22 rifle and a shotgun. If I remember correctly, I hunted deer with a .20 gauge shotgun for 2-3 years (unsuccessfully) before winning a 30-30 Marlin in a fishing tournament. A year or two later I shot a doe and was astounded to see her run off after what I was a sure shot at 30 yards or less. In my youthful ignorance, I never realized a large game animal could run away after a lethal shot, apparently unharmed. . I found the deer the next day, shot perfectly, but only because I hunted the same area. A lesson that hurt me deeply. I am still incensed with deer hunting and have killed scores. I have owned many deer rifles and, in hindsight, can say that none are more effective than my first. It is knowledge in "the game" and experience that make a hunter successful.
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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444Marlin,4x Leupold. That thing kicked the crap out of me and killed at least 20 deer before I got out of high school.
---------------------------------------- I'm a big fan of the courtesy flush.
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1920s-vintage M94SRC in 32 Special that I bought in the mid-60s. Still have it, still kills deer deader'n hell. Seldom hunt with it now though. Sumbitch turned into some sorta valuable heirloom somewhere along the way, so it's semi-retired.
Lever gun of choice the past few years, is an old Marlin 336SC in 35 Rem. that I picked up cheap and put a Williams "peep" on.
That thing has the sweetest trigger of any lever rifle I've ever fired and is far more accurate than anything that stumpy should oughta be. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
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.257 Roberts, custom-built on a 722, with a short stock- it was the "kids' gun" and I was the fifth kid. I'm not certain, but it's quite possible that we all got our first deer with this rifle. I missed on my first attempt but I don't have to count it because I was a month short of legal but Dad let me hunt anyway. Since I was the last child, and the shortest, it became "my" gun and has accounted for quite a passel of deer and pigs. It wasn't until '98, when a monster mulie ran after being hit, scaring me about losing 'un muy grande burro', that I considered anything else.
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Rem 243, it got stolen before I could score my first deer.
Learned how to handload on that caliber. Love'd it ever since.
Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
When your ship comes in. ... make sure you are willing to unload it.
PAYPAL, sucks and I will never use them again. I recommend you do the same.
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Winchester M70 30:06 I shot my first deer in 1973 at age 19 and haven't missed a season since.
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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First was a M92 Winchester in 44-40 that belonged to an uncle. Loaned to me for the duration until I could (litterly) shovel enough chicken s**t, clerk in a store on week ends, (made $4.50 cents for working from 7am to 8pm) and pull enough watermelons to buy my own deer rifle.
Never killed a deer with it. Deer were few and far between here in the late 40s early 50s. Went any way occasionly saw tracks. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Mauser 98 8x57 (Polish mfg). Heavy thing that I hauled around without seeing a deer. Cost me $17.50 at the downtown Eatons store in Toronto. I still have the price tag around somehwere but the gun is long gone.
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I'm from Cincinnati, and Ohio and neighboring Indiana are shotgun states. My first deer rifle was a Remington Model 1100 TB Trap with a deer barrel and rifle sights. It put Remington Sluggers into a 4" circle at 50 yards with the holes touching. It's still one of my favorites. The only time I have wished I'd had something different was back in 90. A monster of an 8 pointer came out of the woods and walked across a pasture at 120 yards. All I could do was watch. Generally speaking, if you're primarily a bow hunter, the limitations of a slug gun are not a problem. In the dense woods of SE Ohio, if I saw a deer, it was dead.
My first real deer "rifle" was a Remington 742 in 30-06. It comes up just like the 1100. I didn't have a chance to use it on deer the first couple of seasons-- had no place to hunt in Kentucky. I'd bought it for boar hunting in Tennessee. When I finally got a chance to hunt Kentucky, I took it out on opening day of season and bagged my first one. You've all heard my story of the big deer stampede.
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A Rem. 22 lr. Did not kill my first deer with it though. That was with a 6 mm that belonged to an uncle. I'm not sure of the make or model as that was a few years past.
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A model 94 Winchester in .30-30. Never killed a deer with it because deer went missing from here in the late 60's. That rifle was built in about 67 or 68, and it was a real piece of junk. Stamped pieces instead of machined pieces. It used to let a round out under the lifter mechanism and effectively make the rifle a 6.5 pound club.
I did kill a couple moose with it before I got so frustrated and sold it to someone who just "had to have it." If I had kept it another season, I would likely have bent the barrel around a good sized tree.
Settled on a Tikka 30-06, and it has fit for many years.
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov 4:23) Brother Keith
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35 Marlin lever-action. Wish I had kept that rifle.
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M94 30-30. My first deer rifle I bought was a Rem 760 30-06.
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