Your first deer rifle?

Gobihawk

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Oct 25, 2024
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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.
 
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Jul 18, 2021
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michigan
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
 
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N. Idaho
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

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Nov 10, 2024
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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.
 

mi650

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Dec 19, 2021
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Central Michigan
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.

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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

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Aug 8, 2024
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Front Range
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.
 
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