What Was your first deer shot with?

1981: Had hunted this area for about 6 yrs, only seeing does when no doe tag in hand. I popped a back disc that summer but wasn't going to let that stop me. Opening day missed a very nice 8 point. Went back to my cabin and was totally demoralized. Returned next day and had a spike trot over a rise right to me when I was still-hunting up a peninsula after coming in via canoe. I remember thinking "Do I really want to shoot this spike?" Shot it at about 20 yards with the Marlin .444 right through the ribs and was shocked when it didn't drop. Took a second shot through the other side after it had jumped behind a spindly evergreen tree following the first shot. It then ran up over the rise it had come over initially, so I went to put one in the neck but the butt bounded up at the moment of the shot and I ended up putting it up the hoop. I saw the spike hump over before it disappeared over the rise. Those spikes adorn my wall today along with another set of spikes, a 7 point, 8 point, 10 point and 12 point, all from the same general area. They're all trophies to me.
 
My first deer was a whitetail button buck, I shot him with my Remington 740 in .308 Win using 150 gr Federal blue box soft points. Later that day I took my second deer, a large doe, with the same rifle. Pretty sure it happened about 3.5 years ago.
 
Remington 7600 carbine, .30-06... 8-pointer @ 140 yards. Bugger turned and ran so fast, I was sure I missed it. I walked to where I thought I shot it, and couldn't see any blood... Started to get right bummed out, then I looked down and saw blood on the front of my pants. Found the deer about two minutes later, about 10 yards in off the edge of the power line.
 
All season I watched them walk away waiting for the perfect shot to get even better.
Starring down a trail for hours, still as a rock, frustrated I decided to pull a Romeo and Juliet from my left pocket, then I saw it freeze dead in its tracks. 50 yards. I drew in super slow mo'.. followed the crosshairs then before it was going to walk off it stopped and faced me.
I remember telling myself "just do it!".. I sequeezed off a .270wsm square in the chest.
Knees buckled, dead before it hit the ground.
I jumped up looking around If anyone saw what happened, stoked, like the photographer in FMJ who made his firs kill!
Loaded him up in the truck. Picked up my buddies along the trail. I didn't say anything until we got to camp. They didn't know why I had the R'n B blazing on the satellite along the way lol
We had tenderloin for super.
 
Took me a long time to connect, always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and had "buck" fever so bad when I did see anything that any shot I took was no where near the mark. First I took was with a 50 cal muzzleloader at 20ish(age after starting at 12), way too long but well worth the wait, next was with a Browning BAR 30-06 the same year and never have looked back. Got over the "fever" and have got to the point of giving the animal a time limit, if you are there in 5 minutes I'll shoot, then if you are there in 20 minutes I"ll shoot, then think it was awesome to see, I should go have a beer at the lodge and tell the story without pulling the trigger. But still take a deer every year. Great thread.
 
Missed at least 10 deer last season (low light, jitters, etc.) but I ended up getting a spiker with a Winchester Model 70 XTR in .308 on the last possible day at the last possible moment - I love this rifle!
 
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