Your first deer rifle?

[CentralFLMike]

Browning BAR MK II Satin in .30-06. Purchased in 1993 from Kevin's Guns in Tallahassee. Still in the safe today.

 

[Gobihawk]

Daisy BB gun, still have it.
First big kid rifle, I owned, 742 in 30-06, sold it to purchase a Weatherby mark 5 in 300 whby magnum.

I had a Daisy BB gun as well. Replaced the spring with a spring from a Parker ball point pen. Could shoot farther than the other kids in town.

 

[stickbow59]

Remington Model 700 in 30-06, I've had it for 53 years now.

 

[JDZ3]

Marlin 30-30

 

[scott m-70]

Savage mod 99e in 308 win, I payed $235 for it 35 years ago. I killed a lot of deer and my first black bear with it. I still have the rifle but have not used it in years

 

[IDbrushswimmer]

Mine was a Weatherby vanguard 7mm-08 youth, when they came with two different size stocks. Unfortunately sold it like a dumbass when I turned 18 to buy a .300 win mag. Regret it now that I’ve had to buy youth guns for my kiddos when that would have been great to pass down.

 

[Bigdee06]

Mine was a Winchester 1897 12 gauge. IN was shotgun only when I started hunting about 30 years go but now you can use quite a few different centerfire calibers. I still have that shotgun.

 

[3sport.tri]

Marlin Lever action 35 Remington. I wish I still had that one.

 

[Gen273]

First - Marlin 336 30-30
Second - Remington 742 30-06
And too many to list after that…lol

 

[Legend]

250 savage lever action with iron sights.

 

[thoffman89]

Remington model seven in 308, unfortunately I was bigger than my brother and he ended up with that one after my first year hunting. He still uses it today...

 

[mi650]

Marlin 336 .35 Rem that was my grandfathers. He died when I was 3, my grandmother gave it to me when I was 14. That was the legal age here at the time.

Took me 40 years to kill a deer with that rifle, broke down and shot a doe on the last day of the late season a few years ago.

 

[Ringbill27]

First - Marlin 336 30-30
Second - Remington 742 30-06
And too many to list after that…lol

the first two and the go to are the one ones that really ever matter anyway!

 

[dwev]

I shot my first deer with a 243.
First deer rifle I had: Browning 6.5 Creedmoor

 

[blakefromtx]

My first deer rifle was a Belgian made Browning BAR in .30-06 that my dad purchased from a customer for $500 in mint condition. Talk about the best Christmas present ever! This was nearly 15 years ago. I shot my first axis deer with it before we realized how special it was and put it in the safe. I’ll have to check the serial number again, but I believe it is from the late 60s or early 70s maybe.

 

[WashCycle]

My Grandfather's Ruger .257 Roberts with a Leopold Scope when I was 12. I think my dad has actually been using that rifle the last 10 years or so for whitetail. Was able to take my first two PA whitetails with it when I was 13 & 15 years old.

 

[SEH8407]

Marlin 30-30. Hunted with it for two years when I started hunting at 9yo. Ended up killing my first deer with a Ruger 30-06

 

[ILHunter2022]

350 Legend Savage Axis II. Used it for the second time this year - love it. Last year I got three deer (two does and my first buck), and this year I got a doe with it over the weekend.

 

[Stearinlys]

A gun which I still have and use, a Winchester Model 670a in 243 with the 3 position safety. My great grandpa bought it new, then my grandpa used it, then my dad, and now I have it, and hopefully my sons get to use it. You want to talk about a firearm with a history... I have no idea how many coyotes, beaver, deer, moose, etc have been taken with it, and it's on its second factory barrel lol.

 

[Devin1214]

Papaw got me a savage .243 from Walmart. Gun has always shot straight and taken many animals. He’s since passed on and it’s a gun I’ll never part with, plan to pass it down to my son.