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What gun did you kill your first deer with?

Posted By: flounderpounder

What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/05/19 11:41 PM

What gun did you kill your first deer with and what's the story on how it happened?
Posted By: BhamFred

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/05/19 11:56 PM

20 ga slug out of a double barrel 20. I came, I saw, I shot.
Posted By: Joe4majors

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:02 AM

Bow hunted a little when young with no success. Got back into hunting around 2013. Shot my first deer December 31, 2014. Extra nice in that it was on family land. My son got his first a couple years ago in the same field. Ruger American in both cases. .308 for me and 7mm-08 for him (compact).

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Posted By: 257wbymag

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:23 AM

Model 7 243. Buttonhead. I was 8 hrs old.
Posted By: quailman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:26 AM

410 with slug. Running dogs in Rabun Alabama in the early 70's.
Posted By: Fldoghunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:29 AM

A 16 gauge Winchester model 12 shooting #1 buckshot.

We were running dogs and jumped a decent little buck. Another fella missed him 5 times and we cut him on the next crossing. He had probably 10 head of high strong walkers on him and he just stepped out in the old logging road and stopped. I guess it was meant to be. I shot one time and hit him pretty good. He ran about 50-60 yards and piled up.

That day solidified a love of running dogs I still have to this day.
Posted By: FurFlyin

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:36 AM

30/30
Posted By: BigEd

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:43 AM

Brand new shiny Remington 1100 12 gauge, 0 buckshot, Thanksgiving day 1972, Lamar Co AL.
Posted By: bward85

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:43 AM

Browning 20 gauge with buckshot. Running dogs.
Posted By: deadeye48

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:44 AM

Ruger 44 magnum carbine
Posted By: Haybale

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:48 AM

Ruger 44 magnum carbine. 7 years old
Posted By: woodduck

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:49 AM

Spike with a 257 Roberts
Posted By: DGAMBLER

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:55 AM

140 lbs. Doe with my favorite uncle's 270. I was 10 or 11 i think
Posted By: Narrow Gap

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:57 AM

Diawa Semi-Auto Shotgun 12 GA 2 3/4 00 Buckshot. Dog hunting...12 years old. Hunting off of Jack Springs Rd. Between Rabun and Lottie, AL on Ben May Trust land Property. Doe and spike
Posted By: Frankie

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:05 AM

Winchester 1200 , 12ga buckshot ,, dog hunting . Spike
Posted By: DeerNutz0U812_

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:07 AM

Big ol slick with Bear pronghorn hunter... thumbup
Posted By: woodsrider

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:09 AM

Remington Model 788 243
Posted By: Madmax0818

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:09 AM

12ga single shot New England firearm running dogs in Eufaula. My dad said I busted 3 shots off like I had a semi auto.
Posted By: XVIII

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:11 AM

16ga wingmaster #1 buckshot hunting with dogs during “doe days”. Big slick head.
Posted By: nomercy

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:11 AM

.30 M1 carbine. Spike. 8yrs old. Clarke county
Posted By: CarbonClimber1

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:20 AM

BAR 30-06 in supter county..shot first at a doe in pasture outside the greenfield behind a fence..managed to shoot the fence and the deer ran off..5 min later another bigger doe walked out..i shot her in the shoulder.
Posted By: 300gr

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:23 AM

Remington 1100 with buckshot
Posted By: gcr0003

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:23 AM

Has anyone said a bow yet
Posted By: quailman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Diawa Semi-Auto Shotgun 12 GA 2 3/4 00 Buckshot. Dog hunting...12 years old. Hunting off of Jack Springs Rd. Between Rabun and Lottie, AL on Ben May Trust land Property. Doe and spike



Sounds like we may have stomped some of the same ground.
Posted By: JohnG

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:26 AM

Borrowed Rem 742 30-06 on IP land in Braydon Springs the year of hurricane Freddy, 1979.
Posted By: bama7x57

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:33 AM

Remington 700 classic, 7x57, 140 Ballistic tip handloads
Bang flopped a crockpot sized buttonhead...
Posted By: blade

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:34 AM

H&R 16 ga single shot made in 1939. A couple of uncles had killed their first with it as well. Mine was a spike in 1975 on December 22 ahead of two walker hounds (Donna and Dixie) off of Old Scotland Road on a trim road we called the Tank Road. The stand was called the Mule Lot. Still have the little set of spikes.
Posted By: Narrow Gap

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by quailman
Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Diawa Semi-Auto Shotgun 12 GA 2 3/4 00 Buckshot. Dog hunting...12 years old. Hunting off of Jack Springs Rd. Between Rabun and Lottie, AL on Ben May Trust land Property. Doe and spike



Sounds like we may have stomped some of the same ground.
Yea, it does. Our group hunted down George Thomley Road. We hunted around Majors Creek, Steele Creek, School house Branch and Richard Eady’s gravel Pit if any of those areas rings a bell too ya? When Rabun Sportsman Club formed back in the Mid 1980’s some of the land we hunted bordered there club. Where was the area Ya’s group hunted in Rabun?
Posted By: Stickers

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:42 AM

12 ga. side by side- .00 buck.
45 years ago.
Posted By: gundoc

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:43 AM

Head shot on a doe with a Remington 7600 .270 WIN. Had the old Kwik Site see thru mounts. She was about 25 yards away and I used the iron sights.
Posted By: crocker

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:49 AM

Bar 270. 9 yr old. Off hwy 69 between moundville and Greensboro.
Posted By: just_an_illusion

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:49 AM

NEF 270 single shot. 4 pt, 15-20 yard shot, 2nd year we had 3 doe days right after Christmas in Madison County. I never noticed if it had horns or not. I could hear him walking and as he came around the corner of a pine thicket, boom. Seemed like he ran 6 miles back through that 20 acre pine thicket, I reality he ran about 120 yards.
Posted By: Big Buck Video

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:57 AM

Browning BAR in .270 Win.
Posted By: Atoler

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:04 AM

Marlin .357 lever action with iron sights. Doe at about 60yds, 6 years old. Got a .243 model 7 the next year and killed about 40 deer with it in the next few years.
Posted By: BamaGrad85

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:08 AM

Winchester single barrel. I was 14 yrs old. 6 pointer.
Posted By: Stob

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:09 AM

Stevens Pump 12 Ga. 00Buck.
Posted By: bobwallace

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:25 AM

.35 Marlin
Posted By: Bull64

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:36 AM

Mossberg 640k Chuckster.1968 in Dale county,6 years old sitting at the base of a big red oak with 3 squirrels that I was proud of.I left the squirrels...
Posted By: timbercruiser

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:37 AM

Around 1968, nanny with a Rem 11-48, 00 buck, NW Pike county.
Posted By: !shiloh!

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:50 AM

Single shot 20ga with buckshot on hatchet creek hunting
Posted By: hillmp

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:54 AM

Marlin 30-30
Posted By: AU338MAG

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:56 AM

Ruger M77 tang safety 7X57. Handloads with Hornady 139 gr SP. 100 lb spike at about 60 yards, quartered towards me. Put bullet just inside shoulder and punched his heart. He whirled and ran about 30 yards. Thanksgiving weekend, 1983.
Posted By: daniel white

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:02 AM

Thanksgiving day, 1997, Remington model 7 .243 I was 12 years old, “the year before my GF was born” lmao.

I was about a mile from Pilgrims Rest Church beside Choccolocca WMA, the rut was wide open in Cleburne county. Dad had set me on a big rock watching a hardwood bottom between two cut overs, it was a natural funnel. He came out with 6 does, walked in front of me about 100 yards, stopped broadsided, I let him have it, he flopped down, and just kept thrashing around. I jumped up, and hollered for dad, he was about 100 yards down the holler from me. He came up to me, I told him it was a buck at least a 6 point and I fell slam in the creek in the process of gettin to him. We walked up to him and his head raised up, dad shouldered his rifle and seen I’d clipped his back, told me to shoot him again, we was like 30 feet from him, and I missed!! Lmao So I took his Buck 110 and walked up behind him and jugged him behind the shoulder. Lights out then. 10 point with a 19 3/4 inch inside spread. Little did I know when we took him to the Processer that’s the last time we would see him. The place got broken into and he was stole along with 6 other racks, I still look for that deer anytime I see a mount in public. But i got pics and memories, won’t ever forget it and I still hunt with that rifle to this day, actually re done the stock last year.

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Posted By: Bustinbeards

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:03 AM

.270 A bolt
Posted By: 257wbymag

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:04 AM

Awesome
Posted By: BamaRick

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:06 AM

A $80 SKS with handloads from a friend. Mowed down a button head running across a cutover in Samantha, AL. Ate every bit of that one.
Posted By: Bustinbeards

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by daniel white
Thanksgiving day, 1997, Remington model 7 .243 I was 12 years old, “the year before my GF was born” lmao.

I was about a mile from Pilgrims Rest Church beside Choccolocca WMA, the rut was wide open in Cleburne county. Dad had set me on a big rock watching a hardwood bottom between two cut overs, it was a natural funnel. He came out with 6 does, walked in front of me about 100 yards, stopped broadsided, I let him have it, he flopped down, and just kept thrashing around. I jumped up, and hollered for dad, he was about 100 yards down the holler from me. He came up to me, I told him it was a buck at least a 6 point and I fell slam in the creek in the process of gettin to him. We walked up to him and his head raised up, dad shouldered his rifle and seen I’d clipped his back, told me to shoot him again, we was like 30 feet from him, and I missed!! Lmao So I took his Buck 110 and walked up behind him and jugged him behind the shoulder. Lights out then. 10 point with a 19 3/4 inch inside spread. Little did I know when we took him to the Processer that’s the last time we would see him. The place got broken into and he was stole along with 6 other racks, I still look for that deer anytime I see a mount in public. But i got pics and memories, won’t ever forget it and I still hunt with that rifle to this day, actually re done the stock last year.

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good one DW. Great pic grinning like a mule eating briers great memory there!
Posted By: doekiller

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:08 AM

Remington 760 carbine 30-06. It was a doe.
Posted By: jacannon

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:09 AM

Rem. 742 carbine 308 I still hunt with it some.
Posted By: AC870

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:11 AM


Remington 7400 30-06. About 30 years ago.
Posted By: daniel white

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by Bustinbeards
Originally Posted by daniel white
Thanksgiving day, 1997, Remington model 7 .243 I was 12 years old, “the year before my GF was born” lmao.

I was about a mile from Pilgrims Rest Church beside Choccolocca WMA, the rut was wide open in Cleburne county. Dad had set me on a big rock watching a hardwood bottom between two cut overs, it was a natural funnel. He came out with 6 does, walked in front of me about 100 yards, stopped broadsided, I let him have it, he flopped down, and just kept thrashing around. I jumped up, and hollered for dad, he was about 100 yards down the holler from me. He came up to me, I told him it was a buck at least a 6 point and I fell slam in the creek in the process of gettin to him. We walked up to him and his head raised up, dad shouldered his rifle and seen I’d clipped his back, told me to shoot him again, we was like 30 feet from him, and I missed!! Lmao So I took his Buck 110 and walked up behind him and jugged him behind the shoulder. Lights out then. 10 point with a 19 3/4 inch inside spread. Little did I know when we took him to the Processer that’s the last time we would see him. The place got broken into and he was stole along with 6 other racks, I still look for that deer anytime I see a mount in public. But i got pics and memories, won’t ever forget it and I still hunt with that rifle to this day, actually re done the stock last year.

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good one DW. Great pic grinning like a mule eating briers great memory there!


My fat azz was some kind of proud. 🤣🤣
Posted By: jb20

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by 300gr
Remington 1100 with buckshot

I was 9 shot it's foot off also a guy close come by to c what the war zone was about n let me finisher off with his rifle..after missing the neck after 2 times about 5 yards he said gimme the gun ya wasting my damn bullets 🤣
Posted By: BCLC

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 04:19 AM

Mossberg 500 20ga with some #6 shot...8yrs old and was squirrel hunting. Poor lil deer had more spots than that shotgun shell had pellets rofl
Posted By: tbest3

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 04:28 AM



An old McPherson. Maybe a Mark VIII? I can’t remember. Draw length & weight were both way too much for my little tail but I got it done.
Posted By: rolltidehunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 10:54 AM

Single shot 20 ga with slug.
Posted By: sj22

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:38 PM





16 gauge with slugs making a man drive and a button head about run over me, I was 11 years old
Posted By: 87v6bird

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:44 PM

12ga slug from an 870. It was a spike and turned out I shot a chunk out of a sapling that was in front of him in the process.
Posted By: BPI

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:48 PM

Model 7 in 7 / 08
Posted By: Auburn_03

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:49 PM

Marlin 30/30 lever action. Shot a basket rack 7 point at about 60 yards when I was 12. He fell in his tracks due to a brain shot.😀
Posted By: Shaneomac2

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:51 PM

REMINGTON WOODSMASTER 42 30-06
Posted By: mman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 12:56 PM

Winchester Model 94 30-30
Posted By: Morris

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:03 PM

Winchester 1200 w/00 buckshot
November 1993
Private land beside Choccolocca WMA. Bunch of us that played ball at Jax St hunted here. Come to find out we was all trespassing and had no idea til someone got a ticket.
Monster 30lb buttonhead. Must have knocked the spots off it. Probably little past shooting light.
That mofo went about 0 yds and bawled for about 10 minutes
That was my first time ever in the woods.
Deer was gutted with a piece of broken glass bottle. We forgot the knife. I
Posted By: stl32

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:12 PM

Browning sweet 16, with buckshot.
Posted By: king

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:15 PM

marlin 30-30, on WMA in cleburn co.
Posted By: mcninja

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by hillmp
Marlin 30-30


Big doe.
Posted By: pickenstj

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:09 PM

Winchester Model 1200 with #1 Buckshot. It was 1977 drive hunting with dogs close to Plantersville, AL. Seven point came walking in from behind; headed into the drive with people and dogs making all sorts of racket. It was my time and his. I can still see him in the morning sun like it was yesterday.
Posted By: quailman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Originally Posted by quailman
Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Diawa Semi-Auto Shotgun 12 GA 2 3/4 00 Buckshot. Dog hunting...12 years old. Hunting off of Jack Springs Rd. Between Rabun and Lottie, AL on Ben May Trust land Property. Doe and spike



Sounds like we may have stomped some of the same ground.
Yea, it does. Our group hunted down George Thomley Road. We hunted around Majors Creek, Steele Creek, School house Branch and Richard Eady’s gravel Pit if any of those areas rings a bell too ya? When Rabun Sportsman Club formed back in the Mid 1980’s some of the land we hunted bordered there club. Where was the area Ya’s group hunted in Rabun?



You remember the swimming hole on Majors creek called the Zero Hole? Used to run dogs in the woods across that bridge. And further up the road, before 59, my Mom's family had some land too. Mom is a Hadley.
Posted By: Bamabucks14

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:28 PM

1994, a doe and bobcat in the same day, was 7 years old. Shot them in Michigan on my uncles property. Used my dads Remington woods master in 30-06.
Posted By: getting old

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:42 PM

Killed my first deer in 1968 ( weren't many around back then, at least not where I hunted). Killed a 7 point with a 12 gauge SXS double barrel using 00 buckshot on a dog drive. Looking back, it rolled up after the first shot and I'm now sure it was dead, but I shot it again anyway cause it was wiggling a little bit and I was REAL excited. Would have probably shot it a third time but I only had 2 shells !
Posted By: JUGHEAD

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 02:57 PM

Marlin 336 .30-30
Posted By: Goatkiller

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:03 PM

Sako Manlicher .308
Posted By: deerhunter_1

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:14 PM

JC Higgins 12ga Pump, 0 buckshot, spike, 1975 while on a stand during a man drive.
Posted By: UADeerHunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 03:39 PM

.264 Winchester Magnum
Posted By: okfuski

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 04:07 PM

Remington bolt action 22-250. Shot a big 'ol doe back in 1988 for my first deer.
Posted By: Festus

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 05:17 PM

An A-5 Browning 12 gauge using 2 and 3/4" magnum #1 Buckshot in 1973. On a dog drive hunting with BIG Swamp hunting club in Macon County, Ala. A small 8 point Buck.
Posted By: Rmart30

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 05:37 PM

Remington 700 243.
Posted By: GomerPyle

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 05:51 PM


.44 mag lever action - doe - 90ish yds
Posted By: Thread Killer

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 06:30 PM

Savage 110 in 7mag, 9 point buck in Piedmont AL pulp wood land
Posted By: KHOOKS

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 06:49 PM

MARLIN 336 30-30
Posted By: JBL

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 06:59 PM

Kilt my first with a .270 when I was 13. It was the first deer I had ever seen while hunting, and I had hunted 6 years before seeing that one. He stepped out into a field head-on and I didn't even wait for him to get broadside. I threw the gun up and shot him right through the chest and the bullet exited out one of his butt cheeks. He dropped like a stack of bricks. He was a fun one to clean as you can imagine.
Posted By: Super Dave

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 07:01 PM

1917 Enfield bolt action 30-06 converted to a sporter by my dad. I was hunting on Barbour WMA in 1985. I had gone back to the woods early and climbed my chosen tree with a Baker climbing stand, settled in and dozed off. A limb snapped behind me to my right and woke me up. I slowly eased my head around to see a buck walking towards me at 20 yards. The deer walked past my tree at 5 yards and was browsing on stuff as he moved along. I shouldered the old bolt action and dropped him at 15 yards. He was a 7 point, my first deer. I field dressed him and drug him back to my truck 100 yards or so. I managed to load him by myself, and took him to the check station. He was 123 pounds field dressed. Not a bad deer for Barbour WMA back in that day.

David
Posted By: WmHunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 07:10 PM

Remington 1100 12 gauge with 00 buckshot
Posted By: LUMPY

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 07:59 PM

Winchester 1300 12 ga and a slug. Just looking down the barrel using the bead. Can't imagine doing that now. grin
Posted By: slippinlipjr

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 08:15 PM

Hunting a powerline on bogue chitto creek. Had a group of young bucks come out right at dark. Shot the biggest one. Broke his back the first shot. Unloaded the rifle on him after that. 7mm-08. 13pt that had tines coming out of everywhere. Just a 1.5 year old deer but I was tickled. I was 11.
Posted By: willdo22

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 08:49 PM

Ruger Mark II compact blued with wood stock (LH)
Posted By: gman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 10:22 PM

Golden State 30-06 with an ancient 6x fixed scope. 4pt in a hardwood bottom in pickens county. 1991, I think?
Posted By: abolt300

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 10:37 PM

Remington 870 - 20 ga - #3 buckshot
Posted By: bamaeyedoc

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 10:38 PM

30-30 Marlin. High school girlfriend's dad just gave it to me. Wish I had hung on to it but had to sell it during hard times in college.

Back then doe days opened up the day after Christmas. I got a new ladder stand for Christmas so me and my younger brother went to some land in Elmore county that was owned by my dad's boss. It was up around Real Island and I could hear boats and sometimes folks talking down toward the lake. I put up my stand and got in it. Loaded my rifle and waited. Safety belt? I don't need no stinking safety belt! I think this was 1984.

About 4pm I saw a deer moving on my right side so I turned around to face him. I thought it was a doe but when I moved, I saw he had about 3" spikes. I didn't care. I'd never killed a deer and never even seen a buck before while hunting. So I pulled up to shoot and he moved. I hit him a little back. He took off running behind me and I started working that lever like The Rifleman! I shot again and he ran behind me then came around me on my left side so I turned around facing the other way. He ran down right by me and I shot the gun til it was empty. I was hitting and missing!

Poor deer finally laid down about 70 yards away head up and facing directly away from me. He was looking around so I loaded my last bullet and aimed at the middle of his back and fired. That did him in. I was so proud as if I'd shot a 10 point! I gutted him and me and my brother dragged him out to the road. I loaded him into the back of my Honda Civic and went on home! I shot about 7 times hitting him 3 of those including the final shot. I often wondered what those folks in those houses at Real Island thought when let loose a few hundred yards behind them with that that 30-30 that day.

Dr. B
Posted By: GKelly

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 11:15 PM

Marlin lever action 30-30 with iron sights
Posted By: bama1971

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 11:22 PM

This 30-30, 1991, Fosters Loop Road, Fosters Alabama. Cow horn spike, with my dad. Dropped it and a nice rack buck walked up to him and he shot it.
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Posted By: swamp_fever2002

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 11:42 PM

1971 4 point, M1 Carbine .30
Posted By: Khitzeman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/06/19 11:44 PM

i may be the only one with this one....British .303 180gr. 7pt killed in Schley county GA ona peanut field in 1987. Had a doe and 2 buttons with him.
Posted By: BOFF

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 12:06 AM

Remington 1100 20 ga. 3" magnum using #4 buck.
12 y.o in Marengo swamps.

That spike kept kicking, and I kept shooting, LOL
Notice that belt buckle rofl

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God Bless,
David B.
Posted By: top cat

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 12:22 AM

BAR BDL 30.06
Posted By: Sandmtnslayer

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Fldoghunter
A 16 gauge Winchester model 12 shooting #1 buckshot.

We were running dogs and jumped a decent little buck. Another fella missed him 5 times and we cut him on the next crossing. He had probably 10 head of high strong walkers on him and he just stepped out in the old logging road and stopped. I guess it was meant to be. I shot one time and hit him pretty good. He ran about 50-60 yards and piled up.

That day solidified a love of running dogs I still have to this day.

I would sure nuff would like to have one of those model 12s
Posted By: Narrow Gap

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by quailman
Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Originally Posted by quailman
Originally Posted by Narrow Gap
Diawa Semi-Auto Shotgun 12 GA 2 3/4 00 Buckshot. Dog hunting...12 years old. Hunting off of Jack Springs Rd. Between Rabun and Lottie, AL on Ben May Trust land Property. Doe and spike



Sounds like we may have stomped some of the same ground.
Yea, it does. Our group hunted down George Thomley Road. We hunted around Majors Creek, Steele Creek, School house Branch and Richard Eady’s gravel Pit if any of those areas rings a bell too ya? When Rabun Sportsman Club formed back in the Mid 1980’s some of the land we hunted bordered there club. Where was the area Ya’s group hunted in Rabun?



You remember the swimming hole on Majors creek called the Zero Hole? Used to run dogs in the woods across that bridge. And further up the road, before 59, my Mom's family had some land too. Mom is a Hadley.
Yea, We used to swim over at Majors Creek a good bit when I was a kid. We hunted about 2 or 3 miles to the NE of Ya as a crow flies. Ya hunt around Aaron Hadley Road? There was always a Real Good Deer Population around Henry Bryars Property off of Aaron Hadley Road.
Posted By: scrubbuck

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 01:10 AM

6mm Rem 700. Was also first sit in my new Amaker climbing stand. Dec 1989.
Posted By: Fldoghunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by Sandmtnslayer
Originally Posted by Fldoghunter
A 16 gauge Winchester model 12 shooting #1 buckshot.

We were running dogs and jumped a decent little buck. Another fella missed him 5 times and we cut him on the next crossing. He had probably 10 head of high strong walkers on him and he just stepped out in the old logging road and stopped. I guess it was meant to be. I shot one time and hit him pretty good. He ran about 50-60 yards and piled up.

That day solidified a love of running dogs I still have to this day.

I would sure nuff would like to have one of those model 12s

I would love to have that one back. It was stolen in '98 when mom and dads house was broken into. I still look for it in every pawn shop or gun store I go in. Speaking of that, if anyone has or sees a model 12 16 gauge with a solid rib on the barrel and the serial # 757546, I'd sure like to have it back. I bought another one, but it's not the same.
Posted By: Festus

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 02:20 AM

I've got two Winchester model 12's: a standard 12 gauge and a 3" magnum 12 gauge with deluxe wood. Best pump shotgun ever made!!!!
Posted By: Big Bore

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 02:52 AM

December 27, 1986 Greene County. S&W 12ga. 000 Buck. Big doe during doe days.

My oldest son Remington model 7 7-08 8 years old. Doe

My younger son Steyr pro hunter .308. 12 years old. Doe

My daughter Ruger American .308 15 years old. 9 point
Posted By: kodiak06

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 02:58 AM

1973 Mobile Co
Chunchula to be exact
20ga Ithaca single barrel.

BIG nanny!
Posted By: hyco

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 04:06 AM

35 Remington iron sights in 1979 running dogs north of Panama City
Posted By: Tigger85

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 09:44 AM

30-30 Winchester iron sights, running dogs in Chambers County, early 80's.
Posted By: Fldoghunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Festus
I've got two Winchester model 12's: a standard 12 gauge and a 3" magnum 12 gauge with deluxe wood. Best pump shotgun ever made!!!!

I agree and have a few. A rough one I brought back from the dead with a modified barrel and one almost like I had stolen with a full choke barrel (both in 16 gauge). I also have 2 3" 12 gauge model 12s. Those are very well built, but will make you poor to tote 'em.
Posted By: AU338MAG

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Big Bore
December 27, 1986 Greene County. S&W 12ga. 000 Buck. Big doe during doe days.

My oldest son Remington model 7 7-08 8 years old. Doe

My younger son Steyr pro hunter .308. 12 years old. Doe

My daughter Ruger American .308 15 years old. 9 point

Did you hit the doe with one 000 pellet behind the ear? rofl
Posted By: hayman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 10:54 AM

Last week of 1995 season.
Spike
Chilton/Dallas County line.
Remington model 7 6mm topped with a Tasco world class.
Posted By: mw2015

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 11:21 AM

1995 Chambers county .308 huge fat nanny goat. After 3 years of hunting public land in South Florida and not killing one, I headed north to beautiful Alabama and Rockfence Station. After several days of not seeing anything, I finally got it done. I remember getting lost in the morning dark and getting destroyed by briars walking in plus I got my feet wet crossing an unexpected creek. When I finally found the flagging and the stand, I was wet and it was light. I was all upset as it became light and figured I'd never kill a deer. Nothing was coming with the noise I made. After about 20 minutes her comes 3 does and one was huge. Never seen a doe that big since. She was within 25 yards and I put the scope on her neck and dropped her in her tracks. One of the happiest days of my life. thumbup
Posted By: 7x57_Mauser

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 01:24 PM

13 yrs old, doe, International Paper Land, Hardeman County, TN, Remington 700ML .50cal out of a Tree Lounge. I had saved up and bought them with my own money. I still have both of them.
Posted By: jmudler

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 03:10 PM

42 years old. Last day of hunting season, 2 hours before dark. Ten Point Crossbow ~100 pound doe.
Posted By: 87dixieboy

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 04:16 PM

I was seven years old sitting on a green field with my dad and shot prolly a 50 lb doe. Weapon was a pre64 243 win I believe ill have to look. Deer folded so fast I thought I had missed until dad showed me its legs sticking up in the air. Shot it in barbour county
Posted By: thayerp81

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 06:17 PM

I grew up hunting in the big woods of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, big deer when you find them but not plentiful and hard to hunt so I didnt kill my first deer till later in life when I moved down here. first deer was a "management" hunt on a local property, killed a small 5 point with a Tenpoint Titan crossbow. First gun deer was with 30-06 Savage 110, first muzzleloader deer was with Knight DISC 45 cal.
Posted By: daylate

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 06:53 PM

Remington 700 .270 Win. Killed my first deer with it....8 pt. Many years later, had it stolen from my truck while I was catching a few winks before getting up to go look for a deer I had shot at last light but had no flashlight of any kind. Found the deer laying in the road a few yards from where I gave up the evening before. Two years after it was stolen, the Pcola police call to say they arrested a guy with it and to come get it. I call the insurance company and tell them it is their gun since they paid my claim on it. Five years later, the Pcola police tell me to come get it because insurance company never fooled with it. That year I killed my biggest Florida buck to date with it....11 pt.
Posted By: Lead Poison

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 07:33 PM

Winchester 1400 12 ga. using Winchester #1 Buck. Small 7Pt killed in the Everglades off Jane's Scenic Drive. I was 13 and with my grandfather on a swamp buggy.

I will never forget those awesome memories!
Posted By: Teacher One

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/07/19 11:05 PM

1976 at Wendells Lodge in Aliceville, AL. A man my father worked with at Ford Motor Company invited me down to hunt with him. I had just turned 16 and was excited. We hunted in a drizzle for two days and on the second evening the dogs ran a spike right to me. I emptied my 20 ga Browning automatic and then loaded two more buckshot in it and shot them also. He was a world record in my eyes, but probably didn't weigh a hundred pounds. Thanks Thomas Overton for one of the best memories of my life.

B
Posted By: slick_trick

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 01:44 AM

Model 7 in .243. Freedom hills wma in 94. I was10. Basket 7 point nearly ran over me and Dad. I shot him at 8-10 steps.
Posted By: PastorJack

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 02:15 AM

1st 25 or so were with a bow.... first being a PSE Baby G. The first gun killed deer was with a Browning 30-06 BAR.
Posted By: CatHeadBiscuit

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 02:24 AM

Marlin presafety 30-30
Posted By: icducks

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 02:52 AM

Remington 7400 243. I shot that 30 lb doe 7 times before I finally connected.
Posted By: Big Bore

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 03:13 AM

AU338MAG......Ha! I remember that deer too. Seems like that one was a little smaller! Down in Tuskegee if I remember correctly. Damn you man! You have a lot of dirt on me! Same gun and yes 000 buck!
Posted By: Mississippi Mud

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 04:39 AM

Sears and Roebuck model 30/30.
Posted By: AU7MM08

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 12:49 PM

My Tikka in 7MM08 in Lowndes Co with Odocoileus.
It was a lone doe at 100ish yards.
Posted By: gcr0003

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by kodiak06
1973 Mobile Co
Chunchula to be exact
20ga Ithaca single barrel.

BIG nanny!


Chunchula isn’t very big, do you know any of the Merchants out Roberts road in turnerville?
Posted By: 300gr

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by gcr0003
Has anyone said a bow yet

Nope because the title of the thread asked what "gun" you got your first deer with
Posted By: wew3006

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 04:01 PM

Browning BBR, 30-06, w/ Leupold VARI-X-III, 2.5-8x36
Still have it
Posted By: gcr0003

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/08/19 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by 300gr
Originally Posted by gcr0003
Has anyone said a bow yet

Nope because the title of the thread asked what "gun" you got your first deer with


Well that hasn’t stopped em before
Posted By: Darrylcom

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 12:26 AM

Remington 7400 30.06 last Christmas (2018). 43 years old, 11 point. I shot it once it turned broadside it’s knees folded and buckled then it fell over. Started kicking and I kept the gun on it. It put a leg down and started to push up and I gave him one more because my first one wasn’t leaving or getting away. After that shot he agreed with me. It was important to me to use this gun because my dad left it to me and I was determined to take my first deer with it. I know a lot of y’all have them fancy scopes, but this 3x9 Tasco got the job done. My son took his second, third, and fourth deer with the same gun. His first was a small doe with a Remington 870 (youth stock) and buckshot.
Posted By: HootOwl

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 01:27 AM

Senior in high school, 1992. Spike on a green field in Livingston, AL. 270 Browning A Bolt. Still have it. Great memeories.
Posted By: Rebelman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 01:40 AM

Interarms 30-06
Mobile county
Middle school age (whatever that is)
Posted By: dsayer

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 01:58 AM

Remington Model 700 (the cheapest version) in .243.
Red Willow county Nebraska.
12 years old. Little fork mule deer.
Posted By: coldtrail

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 02:07 AM

1983, 170 lb 5 point buck. Shot him getting the hell a way from the hounds with a Winchester 1400 bird gun. It only held 3 shells.
Posted By: Sifers23

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 02:15 AM

35 cal marlin
Posted By: having fun now

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 10:29 PM

Browning auto 5 12 gauge 2 3/4 #1 buckshot sitting on the ground. 5pt.
Posted By: Bigbamaboy

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/09/19 10:55 PM

Model 700 270.
Posted By: oldbowhunter

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/10/19 01:00 AM

BAR 243. 1972. Spike.
Posted By: AlabamaSwamper

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/10/19 02:18 AM

Marlin 30-30

Still got the gun but 27 years later I’ve yet to shoot at another one with it.
Posted By: BowtechDan

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/10/19 03:26 AM

Grand Pa's .270
Posted By: DeerTracker

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/10/19 05:04 AM

-Hunting with a customer in Mississippi using my Brother In Laws Remington 7400 30-06. Small 7 point chasing a doe back and forth cross the trail in front of me. He finally stopped giving me a perfect 100 yard broadside shot. Dropped him like a ugly blind date.

Only "bad" thing about the experience was the largest 13 point crossed the same trial about 10 minutes after I shot this one.
Posted By: flounderpounder

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 02:40 PM

I love reading all of these
Posted By: BamaStrapAssassi

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 03:29 PM

60’s model 700 bdl 6mm bull barrel. Rifle I let go as a kid and will forever regret it.
Posted By: Booger

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 03:38 PM

Remington 1100 12ga, mod barrel, #1 2 3/4" buckshot in 1987 on a dog drive on the edge of the Okefenokee swamp in Homerville, Ga. 1 shot at about 50 yds. Buckshot hit him from his head to his guts. He was a 7pt
Posted By: Booger

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by daniel white
Thanksgiving day, 1997, Remington model 7 .243 I was 12 years old, “the year before my GF was born” lmao.

I was about a mile from Pilgrims Rest Church beside Choccolocca WMA, the rut was wide open in Cleburne county. Dad had set me on a big rock watching a hardwood bottom between two cut overs, it was a natural funnel. He came out with 6 does, walked in front of me about 100 yards, stopped broadsided, I let him have it, he flopped down, and just kept thrashing around. I jumped up, and hollered for dad, he was about 100 yards down the holler from me. He came up to me, I told him it was a buck at least a 6 point and I fell slam in the creek in the process of gettin to him. We walked up to him and his head raised up, dad shouldered his rifle and seen I’d clipped his back, told me to shoot him again, we was like 30 feet from him, and I missed!! Lmao So I took his Buck 110 and walked up behind him and jugged him behind the shoulder. Lights out then. 10 point with a 19 3/4 inch inside spread. Little did I know when we took him to the Processer that’s the last time we would see him. The place got broken into and he was stole along with 6 other racks, I still look for that deer anytime I see a mount in public. But i got pics and memories, won’t ever forget it and I still hunt with that rifle to this day, actually re done the stock last year.

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What kind of a loser steals deer antlers? Dang, I hate that DW. I had a nice racked buck never make it back into my possession either. I still look for it hanging on a wall in some restaurant or other business.
Posted By: rst87

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 09:48 PM

I was hunting with a family member and was toting a Winchester 30-30 with open sights. I was 14 at the time. I had a chance to shoot a doe he handed be a BAR safari 270.
Posted By: jaredhunts

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 10:22 PM

12 gauge single shot. Sitting under a tree in the back of the horse pasture behind the house. 12 or 13 years old. Little deer nothing huge, been hooked ever since. 3 inch magnum. 000 buckshot.
Posted By: daniel white

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by Booger
Originally Posted by daniel white
Thanksgiving day, 1997, Remington model 7 .243 I was 12 years old, “the year before my GF was born” lmao.

I was about a mile from Pilgrims Rest Church beside Choccolocca WMA, the rut was wide open in Cleburne county. Dad had set me on a big rock watching a hardwood bottom between two cut overs, it was a natural funnel. He came out with 6 does, walked in front of me about 100 yards, stopped broadsided, I let him have it, he flopped down, and just kept thrashing around. I jumped up, and hollered for dad, he was about 100 yards down the holler from me. He came up to me, I told him it was a buck at least a 6 point and I fell slam in the creek in the process of gettin to him. We walked up to him and his head raised up, dad shouldered his rifle and seen I’d clipped his back, told me to shoot him again, we was like 30 feet from him, and I missed!! Lmao So I took his Buck 110 and walked up behind him and jugged him behind the shoulder. Lights out then. 10 point with a 19 3/4 inch inside spread. Little did I know when we took him to the Processer that’s the last time we would see him. The place got broken into and he was stole along with 6 other racks, I still look for that deer anytime I see a mount in public. But i got pics and memories, won’t ever forget it and I still hunt with that rifle to this day, actually re done the stock last year.

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What kind of a loser steals deer antlers? Dang, I hate that DW. I had a nice racked buck never make it back into my possession either. I still look for it hanging on a wall in some restaurant or other business.


Yea I always look for mine as well. Sorry folks in this world
Posted By: NATTABOY

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/12/19 11:10 PM

43 year old 11 point. He was due😆
Posted By: Hogwallop

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 12:30 AM

20 gauge Remington slug gun from a climbing stand. Was hunting behind a friends house in a neighborhood in Maryland where everybody had about 5 acres. I could see 3 or 4 houses from the tree and sometimes watched people walking there dogs and crap. 5 point buck was walking by in a hurry right after legal shooting light. Only thing I’d ever seen about deer hunting was on TV shows. So I did a bleat sound like they do. I was so amped up it came out as a yell. Sounded like a real angry goat lol. Buck stopped and looked up at me like he just chit himself and I shot him low. He flipped over on his back then got up and ran about 15 yards and died. My friend said his wife shot up out of bed screamed “what the hell was that?” Morning hunts were bow only after that.
Posted By: mman

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by mman
Winchester Model 94 30-30


I bought the gun with "dog money" when I was around 10 or 11 years old, which I got from the sale of a Brittany Spaniel pup, my payment for taking care of my Dad's bird dogs.

I killed a 7 pt (probably a 3 1/2 year old deer) and I thought it was a giant. I was hunting on the ground and the deer came up a hill and when it topped the rise, 15 yards away, I quickly shouldered my open sighted 30-30 and shot the deer in the base of the neck. It dropped. I drug it about a half mile, mostly jogging, I was so pumped up. I was 16.
Posted By: jawbone

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 01:05 PM

High Standard 12 ga pump action with 000 Buckshot in Minter Alabama.
Posted By: Bruno

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 01:09 PM

Marlin 30-30
Posted By: ford150man

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 01:32 PM

12 gauge Ithaca Pump, with 00 Buck Shot. That’s been roughly 36 years ago. Still have the shotgun
Posted By: BamaGuitarDude

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 01:51 PM

Remington .30-06
Posted By: lefthorn

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 08:51 PM

SKS. About a 60 lb doe
Posted By: toothdoc

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 09:35 PM

Marlin 30/30 and it was 30y ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Posted By: noeyeddeer

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 09:48 PM

Remington 700 .243
Posted By: Dixiepatriot

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/13/19 10:03 PM

Win 94 30/30. I was almost 40.
Posted By: Conecuhbuckz4

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/14/19 12:32 AM

Remington 12 gauge police magnum. Loaded slug first shot, buckshot 2nd. Little spike never had a chance!
Posted By: Scout308

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/14/19 03:31 AM

Remington 788 308 win with an old Tasco 3x9 scope
Posted By: Horse cents

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/14/19 09:04 PM

Iver Johnson 12 gauge single barrel. spike that I shot for a doe. 39 years ago this November
Posted By: HalBedford

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/14/19 09:15 PM

257 WBY MAGNUM 120LB nannie @ 150 yds. 1986
Posted By: Jstocks

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/14/19 10:11 PM

Winchester model 1200
00 buckshot
Posted By: alhawk

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/15/19 02:42 AM

20 gauge single shot in 1982. Doe prior to a dog drive on the Alabama River. The does usually disappeared during the few days of doe season.
Posted By: Hix14

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/15/19 03:26 AM

Marlin 336 in 30-30. Iron sights.
Posted By: Tider18

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/15/19 03:11 PM

.444 Marlin and the cheapest tasco scope that money could by at the time.
Posted By: ClarkGriswold

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/15/19 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by jawbone
High Standard 12 ga pump action with 000 Buckshot in Minter Alabama.


30-06 I borrowed from Jawbone
Posted By: buckhunter2

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/16/19 02:43 AM

Rem 788 22-250
Posted By: foghorn

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/16/19 01:53 PM

Rem 870 12 gauge with buckshot little doe, I was 16 yrs old
Posted By: Jakethesnake

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/16/19 04:49 PM

Marlin 3030
Posted By: HHSyelper

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/16/19 05:53 PM

An old single shot 12 gauge with 3" buckshot, that my dad had gotten as a safety award at Acipco. I was nine and it was about 130" 7pt. I've been addicted ever since, well until them danged old thunder chickens took over.
Posted By: Floridajew

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/18/19 03:47 PM

Mossberg bolt action 20 guage goose gun
Posted By: hoggin

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/18/19 04:48 PM

1979 35 marlin Texas heart shot at about 35 ft. I heard something moving around and close before daylight and as it got light I could see a deers rearend sticking out of some briars and bushes. It was a juvenile hunt and my uncle was sitting with me. I waited for him to turn or back out until it was obvious that he was gonna feed straight through it so I put the iron sights just below the pucker and let it rip

You didn’t get many chances in East Tennessee when I was young so you didn’t let any get past you if you could help it
Posted By: flounderpounder

Re: What gun did you kill your first deer with? - 08/19/19 03:29 PM

I was 11 years old standing in the cold waiting on the school bus when a buck with horns chased a doe across the road about 50yds from me. I hid in the bushes and watched the bus go on by and waited there for another 5 mins until my mom left for work. I went inside grabbed my 20ga single shot 3 of those yellow slugs and started walking down the road. I found the tracks where the deer had crossed earlier and just sat there a few feet into the woods, watching down the road. I heard a limb snap and looked to my left and there was a big nanner head standing there looking in the opposite direction about 20 steps away. I shouldered and pulled the trigger.. Broke her spine and she dropped in her tracks! No idea who's property I was on? My dad came home from work and I told him I had killed a deer, he asked why I wasn't in school and I said I had never killed one and I saw a deer at the bus stop. He helped me drag her out, showed me how to skin her, and we fried up a piece of backstrap. Before bed that night he called me into the living room and whooped my ass for skipping school and trespassing. ill never forget it!
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