What Was your first deer shot with?

Shot my first deer at about a hundred yards with a Savage 170 pump .30-30, topped with a cheap 3-9x Simmons. Shot three shots (lost one out of the mag tube when it jammed), put one into each lung. It dropped about 15 yards away in the woods, a 3 point buck.
 
Cooey single shot .410 slug. 10yds. 4pt WT buck. Double lung. He went 5yds. I was 13. Dad dang near killed me! It was in season (1st day), on crown land, but I didn't have a tag, nor was I even legal to hunt deer alone. Not for 5 more days would I even be allowed to hunt deer at all, let alone by myself. Next year, 20ga, double lung, 20yds. VERY large doe. Legal this time.
 
With a Tikka 55 .308 Winch, a close shot not more than 20 yards. Since then many guns have passed my hands (this Tikka is sold also), but a .308 still is one of my favorites, now a T3 SS.
I have a sickness, buying and selling rifles and shotguns and scopes/binos. But with age it seems that I will be cured, at least a bit. Tend to keep them far longer than before.
 
The first was shot with a bow... Hit her in the spine & that was that.

The second was shot with a 7mm Rem Mag.

Cheers
Jay
 
.35 Whelen with 250 grain Remington Core-Lokt's. Him and another buck about the same size both came into my Dad grunting. The distance was a generous 15 yards.

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This is what me and my Dad put together after.

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It has the date burnt into the wood, the tag and the empty brass hanging off the antler. Beside it is a framed picture. Nothing fancy, but every time I look up from my desk and see it, I remember that cold November day...

Originally I was going to use the antlers for rattling, which is why I cut them off the skull plate...looking back I probably shouldn't have.
 
In 1943, a .30-30, Win. 94 saddle ring carbine, metal but plate, stock stamped "City of Toronto" barrell shot out, bought for $20 by my father when 16. Shot two deer, 10 point buck and a spike buck, one shot each on the first hunt, Baptese Lake, Ont. from the old then operating rail line.:)

Oh, to have that rifle today!
 
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Scoped Husquavarna in 270 Weatherby loaded with Weatherby factory 130gr spitzers that my grandfather had given to me.
 
Parker-Hale #4 .303 Brit. 180 gr round point remington (only deer I ever shot with factory rounds)
Large 5x5 buck at about 80 yards. Both lungs, went down in about another 80 yrds.:)
 
Ruger mini-14, iron sights Federal 55 grain soft points. Fired 3 rounds at the does head as she ran by and she stopped about 75yds away. She stood for a bit and continued eating , when my buddy yells " she's eating , shoot her again." Next shot hit her spine, and she dropped like a rock. Ran up to her and put the last round behind her ear. Not an ounce of wasted meat, or a gutshot to clean for my first deer.
 
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