What was the first hunting rifle you bought for yourself chambered in?

What was the first hunting rifle you bought yourself chambered in?

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I was lucky enough to be handed down a decent selection of shotguns and rifles from my father. This year I found a rifle that I just had to have, though. Ruger Hawkeye Compact in 6.8 SPC. Look forward to trying it out in the whitetail woods this fall.
 
First hunting rifle I bought for myself was a Savage 111 package deal in .30-06. Whole thing cost $500 from S.I.R not long before they got bought out by Cabelas, and the package gun didn't have the Accutrigger. Fast forward to now, and that same rifle has been restocked in a Boyd's thumbhole stock, I've slicked up and lightened the trigger a bit, and it wears a Bushnell Elite 3200 scope. Took my first deer, first bear and first moose with that rifle. I have many others, and others I hunt with, but this one will never leave me. .30-06 will kill anything on the continent, I can get ammo almost anywhere.

Younger guys and fad queens say what you want: there are many reasons the .30-06 is, and remains, the #1 hunting caliber in North America. Probably will be for a long time, everything else has a LOT of catching up to do.
 
Ruger RS 77 Tang 7 mmRM It was deadly accurate used to shoot 4 litre jugs full of water out to 800yards with no problem. Used the now discontinued 162 Nosler solid base.
 
First big game hunting rifle I bought myself was chambered in 30-06, was a Remington 740 woods master. Don’t have it or any other 06’s anymore, very capable cartridge though
 
Left Hand Tikka Hunter in 30-06 from LeBaron's in Mississauga

One of the few LH options in 2000.

If I recall correctly, there was a $100 premium for it over the RH version.

Still takes a deer almost every year.

Ryan
 
first rifle I ever had was a 303 british that was lended to me for my first hunting season. By the next year I had purchased my own 243 Winchester in a Remington 788. That rifle shot great, but it was ugly!

Now looking back, I wish I still had it! lol!

The season after that, I purchased my personal holy grail rifle (at that time). It was the same rifle my father used. A browning BAR, grade II, in 30-06.
I hunted with that rifle for years.
 
30-30 Marlin 336C from Canadian Tire (Main and Danforth Ave, East York). Took it home on the TTC subway system. No trigger lock needed in 1981. Carrying home in the cardboard Marlin box.
 
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