Your first deer rifle?

Mossberg maverick 243 its a discontinued model not to be confused with the shotgun. Took several deer as a kid before stepping up to a 30 cal
 
My dad bought me a Remington 700 ADL .270 from the New Ulm Rod and Gun club in 1978 for $165. Barrel has been shot out so it’s turning into a .280 AI.
 
Marlin lever action 30-30 that my dad traded his buddy a 20 gauge for. Killed my first several deer and my first bull elk with it before buying my own kick-like-a-mule, no recoil pad Savage model 110 30-06 at about age 15. That savage is long gone but the 30-30 will forever have a place in the gun safe and I pull it out to go on a hunt for nostalgia reasons once every few years.
 
Remington 700 SPS Stainless in 30-06. I still hunt with it today 16 years later, but I've changed the stock twice, put a new trigger on it, and rebarreled it. So, it's not really the same rifle. Shoots a whole hell of a lot better though.
 
Remington 700 adl chambered in .243win. My dad bought it for me when I was 9yrs old and I killed my first deer with it that same season. Since then my wife and two oldest kids all killed their first deer with that same rifle and it's currently the rifle my daughter hunts with. A lot of good memories linked to that rifle.
 
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