What Was your first deer shot with?

7X57 Husqvarna 4100 with a weaver K3. Lung shot at 350 yards. Just this past fall, nice change after 17 years of hunting moose, sheep, and caribou in the Yukon.

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300 savage out of a model 99F. I have owned many rifles since then and killed a few more deer, but now I'm back to a Savage 99F in 300 savage.
 
1950 FN Mauser,30-06 in full military configuration and iron sights. Rifle weighed a little bit more than me and was taller too.
180gr RP PSPs with H414 for 2750, handloaded by an old family friend.

First shot was a double lunger, 150yds and my Mom was with me. Sent her home for the truck and when I found where it was. It got up as I tried to get into position to finish her off. She got riddled and I did not enjoy the experience at all. Had I just waited she would never had gotten up.
Looking back it is just that, experience. But I always hated that heavy pig of a rifle.
 
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