What was your first big game rifle?

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Not necessarily the first rifle you killed a deer or moose with



mine was a Winchester Model 94 top eject in 30-30 Winchester, open sights. Shot my first deer with it at 30 yards about 2 weeks after I passed my Hunter Safety course.

a year later I graduated to a BSA Monarch in 7mm Rem Mag with a 3-9x40 Bushnell Buckhorn, used that for a half dozen years.
 
Although I used a few other rifles, the first one that was really "mone" as in I bought it brand new etc is a Ruger 77 MkII 7RM stainless. I used it on alot of deer, bear and moose. And coyotes, wolves and grouse, too. :mrgreen:
 
My first was my dad's rem 870 with the deer barrel, not rifled or anything fancy.
I used it for a year or 2... Then someone lent me a
Winchester Model 94 top eject in 30-30 Winchester, open sights
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which I used for another year or 2. and I never shot a deer with either of them (never even shot AT a deer with those 2, just kept seeing does)

Then I woke up one day and got me a Rem 7600 in .308 and have killed deer every year since i've got it (except 1 year). It's turning 7 years old this year and things are looking good. :D
 
Mine was some old sporterized mauser in 30.06 that I got from a guy in Lynden Wash. In the good old days when you could buy guns from the states. Turned out to be a POS but you gotta start somewhere.
 
Winchester Model 670A in 30-06 with a 4X Weaver Challenger scope in Weaver rings and bases. Shot my first deer with it in '88......I was 30...started hunting late... :? :roll:
 
Mine was a BSA in .243. It was my dad's, and the first rifle I carried hunting. Also my first deer was taken with it. I got it after he died and used it for a few years.

I wanted to get a bigger caliber as an all 'round rifle for deer, bear, moose, & elk. (Mostly the first two) Being young with a wife and 2 kids, the only way was to trade the BSA. I swapped a friend for a Savage in .270, and right away started hating myself for it. I made a deal with him that he wouldn't sell or trade it without giving me dibs. I thought about that gun all the time, paranoid he'd need to sell it and I wouldn't be able come up with the cash! :( I doubt it ever would have happened, my friend knew what the rifle meant to me. I'd ask to 'visit' her whenever we were over for dinner! :lol:

About 4 years later I was able to buy it back, and swore it would never leave my posession again! Still use it almost every year for local blacktails.

Moral: Never sell your first gun, you'll regret it!

NWR
 
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