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.
