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

XBolt 30-06, black bear 175lbs, 2013.
It was the first time I shot at anything other than targets, my adrenaline was way high there for hours!
 
White tail buck - mossberg 500 with challenger slug - Nov 6 2019 at 4:53pm.

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I was 9 or 10, shot a 200 lb.-ish black bear with a Mohawk 600 or 660 in 308. Sorry I don't remember the exact model. Mine had the brown stock, and my Dad had the same rifle in 350 Rm with laminated stock.

My son shot his first bear with a LE (again, sorry I don't remember the model) at about 14.

My wife shot her first moose with an AKM at 220 paces.
 
4 point whitetail when I was 12 or 13 with my dads Win 94 in 30-30. Dogs were chasing it and my dad and i were blocking a goldenrod field. I can still picture it bounding out of the woods right to me. Spine shot it at 60 yards, missed it 5 or 6 times while it floundered around. Ran up to it while reloading and finished it up close. The adrenaline dump afterwards was unreal. I can still close my eyes and picture that deer some 30 years later.
 
1987 - Pronghorn Antelope in Powderville, Montana with a Sako 270 Win

Strictly a shotgun bird hunter until then, got invited out by an outfitter friend and I've been hooked on rifle hunting ever since.
Went back to the same outfitter the next year for Mule Deer.
 
I never hunted big game at all except for a few times I could count on one hand before last fall in the 42+ years I have been hunting. Shot my first big game animal, a whitetail deer in 2009 with my Grandfathers Winchester Model 71 .348 at Deerdr's place. Fast forward to 2019, first time I hunted big game in 10 years and filled a mule deer tag.
 
The fall of 75
Many years ago!!!
11 years old and got my first whitetail with a Winchester model 88 in 308.
This was my very first hunt with my sadly departed dad.
Will never forget that day.
 
1971 I think. It was not my first hunt, it was in that period hunters in Ontario refer to as the "no deer years" and we were using dogs. It had been a few years since anyone had even seen a deer. I sat watching a notch in a ridge, like I was instructed to do. Then I heard the hounds lite up, and they were close. Over the notch came a six point buck flat out with the hounds right behind it. I had time for one quick shot with my model 94 30-30. The deer vanished behind a mound. The dogs stopped.
I ran over assuming I'd missed to see why the dogs had stopped. They were licking blood off the leaves. I had taken the top off the deers heart and it had only made one or two bounds after the shot. I though to my self well Holy F**K, I forgot my damned knife.
 
White Tailed Deer in 2000, LH Tikka hunter in 30-06. I was 19.

Will never forget my mentor telling me where to go & stand - wondered why until the deer popped out & ran quartering towards me through an open field.

Didn't have money for hunting clothes so I had an old borrowed jacket and vest in driving sleet that day - soaked to the bone.

That's a memory I'll take to my grave.

Ryan
 
My first, was an Impala buck , shot back in 1973/74 with my Grandfathers Greener and Greener SXS 12g shot gun loaded with buck shot.

We (my dad and I) where walking in bushveld on my grandfathers Limpopo valley farm, when my dad handed me the greener and told me to take the impala ram standing 20 or 30 yards away, hiding in the mopani trees - I nailed him in the engine room, and we turned him into delicious biltong. I was 13 or 14 at the time
 
White tail doe, weatherby vanguard 308win, standing shot about 150 yards. Chased her down through a coulee in November, what a workout to drag her up out of there lol.
 
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