Your first big game ... with what and when ?

[Jaaska]

My first big game animal was a whitetail deer in about 1966 with a 94 model 38-55 Winchester . Let's hear yours . List your first 3 or 5 if you want . My second big game animal was also a whitetail deer in about 1967 with a .303 Jungle Carbine . I would have been 13 in 1966 .

 

[john-brennan]

Black bear with a 308 in a 660 150 yards with a 180gr KKSP

 

[Superbrad]

I was 16.... My family didn't have a lot of money and dad got me started two years prior with a cooey 840 shotgun and a crossing guard style vest etc chasing upland.....

I was always up at the crack of dawn to do upland and happened across a 6 point buck in an oat patch at about 7 am every day......

I saved some money from packing groceries and bought some slugs for the 840 and a deer tag... set my alarm so I would wake up at 5:am...... Sat there shivering in my coveralls behind a rock for an hour and a half..... Lol....

When the deer stepped out (small six), I took it at 30 yards ......

I remember standing over it wondering what to do to this day.....

 

[156821]

Mine was a moose with a 303 Lee Enfield. I was like 16. Dad sent me down to the swamp to start getting the guts out while he went to get help. I remember standing over this hugs animal and not being 100% on what to do next. Long story short, it all worked out in the end as I learned some valuable lessons in that little swamp. Memories I cherish. Good thread.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

For me, it was about 1960 and I was 13. With my 1st big game rifle, a Simpon-Sears 'sporterized' Lee Enfield, and with it, I got the my 1st Moose.

 

[Superbrad]

So much awesome in this thread so far....

 

[hoytcanon]

1977 black bear with a homemade ash selfbow and home made cedar arrows, with goose feather fetching and cheap glue on two blade broadheads... I was pretty jacked... and hooked on bowhunting for life.

 

[KodiakHntr]

1980, spike muley with a 6mm Remington. Which was fitting, as I was 6 yrs old then.

That deer was one of the most patient animals I have encountered as well. Took dad a long time to point it out to me in the deep shadows until I finally saw him. Heavy barrel Parker Hale, that I still have, rested over dads shoulder. Remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[MD]

October 1970. I was 17.

4x5 blacktail with a 303 Ross.

 

[DragonFire]

Moose, 1968, Jungle Carbine. I was 16. Remember it like it was yesterday.

DF

 

[nowarningshot]

Muley, little 3x4. Savage 110 7mag. I would have been about 16.

 

[8x68]

Non Firearm: 1991 huge Whitetail buck with Mazda B2200 pickup.
Firearm: 2013 Whitetail Spike Buck with 450 Rigby.

 

[m1k3_88]

about 10/11 years ago. North bay Ontario, Huge doe with my Remington 870 sabot slug cantilever barrel

 

[Scott_N]

My first was a mulie doe with my Remington 700 ADL 30-06 when I was 15 or 16, so in 1981 or 1982.

 

[maynard]

Around 1986 took a whitetail doe with a Ruger .44 mag carbine. Two minutes later shot the 6 point buck that was hot on her trail. Next day took another doe. Day after I watched my uncle about 150 yards from me take 4 deer in an afternoon. Lots of meat in the camp that year. I think there were 15 deer down out of 18 hunters in that camp.

 

[Hunt&Hook]

When I was around 10 years old, I was walking out to a poplar bluff with the .22, with an old cooey single shot, in hopes to find a grouse or rabbit for supper. We didn't have a whole lot when I was growing up.

I was walking along side an oat field and noticed a deer watching me from cover of the crop. I could only see its head and the white patch on its throat, but that was a plenty big enough target for this young farm lad.

I ran to the yard to fetch my Dad. He didn't believe me at first, but reluctantly drove out to look. Sure enough, there was a deer laying there. We'd eat venison for a couple weeks for sure!

I was ecstatic until I saw the look on the old man's face, it was then I knew that I messed up. He dressed the deer and we headed back to the yard with it and processed it almost immediately.

I was told in no uncertain terms that no matter how poor we were, I was not to poach. It was worse than stealing because there was no giving it back.

I felt bad for quite a while, but that venison sure was good!!

 

[Gr33zi3]

2010. Little spiked whitetail at ~30yds with a Savage .270

The old man and I were walking up a woodroad, full blown conversation just hanging out. Werent even really dressed for the weather. Just decided to go for a small walk... Got to a crossroad and 'look boy, theres your deer!

 

[Boolitcaster]

I shot a moose with my brother's Churchill Gunworks, sporterized 303. I had ordered a Mauser from Princess Auto that year, but when it arrived, it had a broken firing pin and a shot out bore. It was November 11th, 1977 and I was 16. It was tee shirt weather that day and since my Dad was a veteran, he had other obligations and lent his 303 no 1 Mk 3 to my brother and my brother lent me his rifle that he bought the previous year, since he couldn't master the aperture sight. I have never had a more memorable hunt.
BTW, I still hunt with a 303.

 

[hunter5425]

I got my first whitetail in 1966 using a $15 No1 Lee Enfield with a sewer pipe barrel and WWII surplus ammo with the tip ground off to expose the lead.

 

[3macs1]

First deer was 1965 with a new 16ga wingmaster I bought and an imperial slug
Cheers