What Was your first deer shot with?

Shot a 4-pt buck with an Excalibur Exocet 200 from a tree stand at less than 20 yards. It ran about fifty yards and then laid down. Weighed in at 130lbs.
 
Age 40, two seasons ago. WT buck at less than 100yds on the run, BSA CF-2 in 6.5x55. Also got a medium sized WT doe that day. I wish I had started about 25 years sooner.

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Remington 700 BDL SS in .270 Winchester. 3-9 Redfield Wideview. About 150yds, and it was 150gr Remington Core-lokt RN. That load shot well in that rifle like everything else that rifle shot.
Hmmm. Miss that gun.
 
All of my deer...from the very beginning have been harvested with a TC .50 muzzleloader.

I have progressed from a side-lock, to an in-line though. ;)
 
Mine was with a husqvarna in 30-06, lucky shot as he was running at 300 yards after my favorite uncle missed him standing. Nice 5 point mule deer. They are still my favorite animal to hunt and november is still my favorite time!
My son got his first with a husqvarna 30-06 (different one), a 4pt whitetail in the Kootenays. His was a better shot than mine!
 
6.5x55 military wood 29" barrel or something. Real long anyway. 156gr norma and was 10 yards if that. DRT. I sold the gun to a buddy and he still has it.
 
A Winchester 94, a high school graduation present from my father, so definitely pre-64. Deer was a spike mule deer buck. Ammunition was my first attempt at handloading, 170 grain Hornady's ahead of 31 grs. of 3031. Rifle and load still shoot well.
 
Browning BLR 81 243. 50 yards straight on , last years calf. Never had a calf get the heart pumping like that one did. That little sucker had me shaken.
 
Shot my first deer with a Marlin 336 in .30-30.
14 years later my son shot his first deer with the same rifle.
I hope that his son who is 5, will use that same rifle in another 7 years and shoot his first deer too.
 
You guys with the .30-30 stories...don't you think I know you are lying? I read on the internet that those guns are far too light to take much more than a coyote. And even that's iffy. So I know you are fibbing. I read it online...;):eek::p

Actually, these stories bolster everything I have been telling people who are buying thier first deer rifle in .338WM, a .300WM, or a .300 RUM or some such thing since they are being told that they need it to take a deer down.
I actually know about a guy who bought a .300WM last year because he missed/lost a deer he shot with his .338WM. I was in the shop on a Friday Morning just after season opened this year. He brought that rifle (the .300WM) in to trade (he'd only had it a week) for a .300RUM one day from the local shop. Had it for a week!! He had shot at a deer that morning and it didn't fall down, even though he knocked it in a somersault. Obviously the .300WM is no longer large enough for deer anymore.
 
Rookie, that reminds me of a story from WSS. A guy was moving from Quebec to Alberta and wanted a new rifle to use. The guy at the Qc gunshop said he best be careful as game out in those Alberta hills are "much bigger and tougher than around da ole swamp eh!"
So buddy walked out of the store holding a Weatherbee with an incredible piece of lumber on it and wild engraving in a leaf like pattern where the checkering would be.

The chambering? Why 460 of course. Nothing less would do.

It was the nicest one I have ever seen from that company, the $4800 tag and fear of brain damage from recoil held me back.
 
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