What Was your first deer shot with?

My first was with a rem model 788 243 win 80 gr speers have been using the same rifle 30 years later with 95gr partitions to save on meat quality that my 7mm doesnt have
 
Mossberg 500 12 ga with a 30" full choked barrel that Mom bought for Dad the Christmas before. She got it at Sears in Sault Ste Marie and paid $109, and thought it was the coolest thing that we were walking out of the store with a shotgun in a box. The only paperwork you needed in those days was money that folded.

I used an Imperial slug that I bought at the gas station in Echo Bay, the guy running the place didn't have a whole box so he sold me 3 for $1 and I dropped a 6 point at about 15 yards with one through the shoulder. That shotgun was a beast to carry for a skinny 12 year old kid but it sure got the job done and got me hooked for life on whitetails...
 
Winchester Model 94 30-30, my first season out when I was 12, about 75 yards. A nice 3 year old White-tail Doe. Lung shot, she ran about 50 yards across a creek bed. I remember dad cussing when he saw her jump in there, but start laughing when she came out the other side. We literally drove the truck right up to her. I don't remember if we were in the Qu'appelle Valley, or in the Pipestone... took a lot of white-tail out of those 2 parts of Sk.
 
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