I'd call this guy my first "real" buck. A little 5 pt. I was actually about to get down, I hadn't seen anything all morning. I owe it to good timing and my Remington 700 .243. But mainly to "Coleridge", he's wise beyond my years.

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Everybody knows you can't kill a deer w/a 243. What grain bullet and ammo? powdr

Well done! You owe it to good aim and a productive area as well. Enjoy the fine venison....

Congratulations

And the guy that pointed you to the rifle, mounted your scope, loaded your bullets, helped cut up the deer... I'm sure the list goes on. Ohh & all the little people too

Congrats

Awesome.

That deer looks really tasty !

'Nother .243 fan here.

Point it right and 243 will get it done. Looks like fine eating. Magnum Man

Congratulations!

I may have shot a deer or ten with the 243 using 100 gr Hornady over IMR 4350. That combo still doesn't suck............

I wouldn't hesitate to say my extended family has killed 50 deer with a 243. I was the first to start out with the cartridge in 1975. Every kid, cousin, new inlaws, and younger friends and their kids all used one at some point early in their deer hunting career. Might have even been a couple black bears that experienced its insufficiency.

I bought an SS M77 last year and will dream up some 100 gr deer loads for it this winter. My daughter had our first grandchild recently. I ought to be able to come up with a load in the next 7-8 years till he's old enough to carry it.

BTW: to the OP - congratulations! Your first buck is bigger than mine was.

Congratulations! Nice buck.

Congratulations, enjoy it and i wish you many more in the future..

@ Coleridge....Dang man, sounds like you did everything but pull the trigger.

Just mess'n Your light years ahead of were I was my first season in; that many years ago!

Congrats on a fine deer.

-Ken

Nice work Randy.

Oh and to answer the question.
Shot with 85gr Sierra Varminter loaded with 36.0 of H4350

Congrats!

Congrats on your first one! Pretty buck, backstraps for Thanksgiving!

Congrats on your first!

Congratulations! I remember how excited I was when I got my first buck.

Yeah I was super pumped up. About to throw the backstraps on the grill now.

That buck just has grilled backstrap and chicken fried steak written all over him...

Talk about a good eatin' kind of buck.

Congrats on your first buck - skin out his skull and make a European mount - everybody should keep the antlers off their first buck!

DJ

Man that was tasty! Yeah, getting a shoulder mount on him.

Awesome! Looks like a good one.