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[280 improvec]

Great for young hunters. I was nine when I killed my first buck. The lack of recoil meant that I had no fear of getting kicked across the pasture!!

[Evan03]

rem sportman 78 270win, dad gave it to me brand new when i was 10 I think, shot my first deer with it when i was 12, shot my first elk a year later. along with my first and only big buck a week before the elk, the elk I shot happen to be taken only a few days before my 14th birthday.

still have the rifle, Ive taken deer elk coyotes, grourn squrils and badgers with it. its better rifle than i could of ever asked for and shel never leave my side. no matter how many other rifles I have or go through.

[trex]

My first deer was killed with a .410 slug out of a Winchester model 1948 pump. My first deer with a rifle was killed with a Rem 700 in .243 and my first buck was killed with a load of 000 buckshot out of a 12ga Rem 58 automatic. Still got the shotguns and my uncle still shoots the .243.

[12ga]

12 gauge L.C. Smith double barrel with 00 Buckshot. Range was under 20 yards. We were hunting the Trinity River's Big Thicket country in East Texas. I was 10 years old and the year was 1941.

Thanks for stirring up the memory!

GrayBear

[Westerner]

I still love my 6.5 Rem Mag with a 120 gr Nosler BT. With a max load of IMR 4350.

Good Hunting
Westerner

[BLUEDOT 72]

I was 13 years old ( and a bit runty) and used a Win.94 full-lenth octagon bbl in 25-35. I was the biggest kid in school that fall...Especially after I later killed a sow black bear with a 1911 .45 from a r/r speeder car while hunting pheasants with an older friend of the family! This in Western Montana in 1950.

[Omega]

My first umpteen were with my Win Model 88 in 308, a few were with my .338 but the last years its been my 50 cal Omega all the way!

[Stripbuck]

300 weatherby mag

[Hi Ball]

Well, I must have misunderstood, as I thought this thread was about MULIES and not just any deer speices.

Now for mule deer, I favor the 7mm mag with a 150 grain handload for the high country out west.

My venturing to harvest the whitetail bucks, turned my head towards the Marlin 444 for use in the hardwoods. This was after using a Ruger semi-auto version of the 44magnum for a half dozen years in the woods.

However, the last decade or so has had me rely more upon a rifle scope instead of just the iron sights on my Marlins & Winchester lever guns. So I guess I would have to put the model 70 Winchester in the 1/4 Bore (25-06) down as my favorite all time whitetail deer gun.

[BigCountryCreeper]

270 win first time was the last time way to easy needed more of a challenge took up bow hunting (the truth is way too much buck fever could hardley see thru the scope)

[fishdoggydog]

First was with a shotgun, most were with muzzleloaders last 25 years, best deer were with the bow.

[rainydays]

My first deer weapon was a Winchester 30-30. Shot a heck of a lot of shells that first year with it. Couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with it. Never shot one since. I'm positive it was more the shooter than the guns fault, but it was a great time anyways and some great forgettable memories. Have a great day!--tr

[8X56MS]

shot my first deer in the Big Scrub section of the Ocala National Forest. I was 7, and used a Stevens 20 ga single shot , with a foster slug. I still have the recovered slug and the shotgun

[fabsroman]

This is a great thread. I am surprised that I haven't seen it until now. I am surprised at the number of "other" means used.