What Was your first deer shot with?

[northern skies]

Spike buck, .300 win mag with a stout bullet at 8 yards. It penciled right through. Not much meat damage, but I learned my lesson there about overkill.

 

[Ganderite]

Big buck at 10 yards. I was 15 and partridge hunting with a 22. Shot him in the neck.

I had been deer hunting earlier in the day but it started to snow very heavily, so I went back to camp and got my 22.

Next year I got another buck in the same locality with my LE sporter and Mexican Match with CIL 180gr Soft Points

 

[yomomma]

Big buck at 10 yards. I was 15 and partridge hunting with a 22. Shot him in the neck.

I had been deer hunting earlier in the day but it started to snow very heavily, so I went back to camp and got my 22.

Next year I got another buck in the same locality with my LE sporter and Mexican Match with CIL 180gr Soft Points

Lol...i think this is the third time you have answered this.

In your post from 2011, you said you were 14.

 

[power73wagon]

Remington 760 in 300 Savage

 

[dmcdam]

Tikka .270 from 160 yards on a bounding 9 pointer. Spined it and it got his rack hung up in the wire fence. I had to finish it off with a 20 gauge slug behind the ear. Wasn't real pretty for my first.

 

[77gunner]

110 gr. ttsx 270 win handload with a savage axis. Three point island blacktail at about a hundred yards.

 

[saskcop]

.30-06 remmy 760.

 

[SSG69]

Ar-15.

 

[SJAR]

Rem 700 Classic 7x57. 297yds small 4x4 buck. Won't be forgetting that day anytime soon.

 

[220]

Big buck .308 600 rem 75 yrd open sights

 

[btabin]

Browning BAR 30-06 when I was 16 at about 75 yards on the side of a hill. Thought I missed initially because it started running uphill (at the time I had heard they tend to run downhill when shot). I was a bit disappointed but kept my sights on her. Then just as I was about to take another shot, she slowed down and peeled off the hill and came-a-tumblin' down in a fairly comical fashion. Poor thing.

 

[Pariegh]

.308 M305 with irons, spike buck, heart shot @~80 yards, ran about 50 yards and dropped. Was quite tasty.

 

[350tracker]

Now that's going back a few years but it was a 7mm Rem. mag, spike buck at 100 yards +-...

 

[cooey43]

It was 1973 , using a Savage 99 - EG in .300 sav. with Winchester 180 gr. Silver Tip ammo. A running shot @ about 40 yds.
The hit was too far back , so a long track in fresh snow finally found him . 1 more shot in the head was needed.

 

[Andrew829]

spike horn 210yards 30-06 Remington 710
Last deer was a 10pt 54 yards 308 X-bolt

 

[chasseur]

Browning 78 in 45/70 when they first came out,got a nice little fork horn buck

 

[homeboy1]

Winchester 94 in 30-30. Deer was about 60 yards away. The rifle itself was manufactured in and around 1900. It was my grandfathers and now belongs to my son. It's in rough condition but still shoots straight.

 

[Falconflyer]

Don't remember what I shot my first deer with but I remember shooting my first Elk when I was 16 with a 270 Wby mag on a pre-64 M-70 action.

 

[blazinbilly]

$20 hardware store Lee Enfield

 

[jonathanwelch]

Browning BAR in 308. I was 14 hunting with dad and the shot was about 60 yards. He was impressed as the shot took out the heart.