Your first deer rifle?

[hoooogan]

Hoping to secure tags for my first deer season. Better late than never, right? If all goes well, I'll be using a Browning XBolt Max SPR in 6.5CM topped with a VX3HD 3.5-10x50 and SiCo 46M can in chode mode.

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Happy to confirm this is in fact my first deer rifle. Didn't get a trophy by any means, but I got meat in the freezer for the first time in my life, the evening before I turned 38.

 

[mtnvol1]

My first deer rifle was a Marlin 30-30 and I added a Simmons Whitetail scope to it. Bought it for $170.00. It was the first firearm purchase when I turned 18. Still a go-to gun depending where I'm hunting.

 

[WVHUNTER99]

Ruger M-77 7mm-08 still have it in the back of the safe

 

[cheezstake]

Got my first deer last year with a marlin 1894 in 44 rem mag with aimpoint pro on top

 

[mr.coon]

Remington Model 700 Mountain Rifle in 280 Remington. I worked by ass off as a teen to get it in 1995. It is still my main rifle. It has killed the shit out of everything it has ever shot. Zero need to change.

 

[DeanoD]

Browning BLR 270 WSM Lever Action - should have never sold - was cool.

 

[KenLee]

Happy to confirm this is in fact my first deer rifle. Didn't get a trophy by any means, but I got meat in the freezer for the first time in my life, the evening before I turned 38.

Spoiled

 

[KenLee]

Ruger M-77 7mm-08 still have it in the back of the safe

Red pad or mk2?

 

[KenLee]

Got to pick whatever I wanted for my 12th birthday, and at the time, that was a Remington 700 Mountain in 270 Win with a walnut stock. Put a small gouge in the fore end one of the first times I hunted with it, and I'm sure my dad wanted to skin me. Killed a pile of deer with it and moved on to other things, but I grabbed it out of the safe for nostalgia's sake a couple years ago and killed a great buck.

Can't wait to give my sons the same opportunity when they're old enough, although it's a little sad that Remington probably won't be on the menu at that point.

Guns are to be used. Scratch em, beat em, and send it!

 

[KenLee]

browning micro medalion 7mm-08 with a red field scope that had the rectangular glass.

Damn good un

 

[WVHUNTER99]

Red pad or mk2?

mk2

 

[KenLee]

mk2

Im no longer jealous

 

[Hhanna10]

Remington Model Seven in .260 rem with a Nikon prostaff 3x9x40. Still my main hunting rifle nearing 20 years later. Sweet shooter

 

[Red07]

Remington 700 in 300wm. Way too much for a 14yr old. Dad bought it for me for an elk hunt. Kill a lot of deer with it and would trust it over some custom builds I have. Had a 3-9 leupold on it for years. I put a nightforce on it a few years ago and found out it is capable of 600yd plus shots. Dad said he paid 250 bucks for it with the scope. Will never part with it

 

[rogerdoger]

When I was 12 my dad gave me his .222 for whitetail in South Dakota, the next year they changed minimum caliber requirements and he got me a 243 Winchester 670. I never did shoot a deer with the 222, but saw my old man take some down with that rifle.

 

[Auguts]

My first deer rifle was in the truck while we were hunting pheasant running and blocking draws so at 15 feet with a 20 gauge…

But the rifle was a model 70 30-06