Your first deer rifle?

[BrockJ]

Marlin X7 in .270. Not a bad gun. I’ve shot several deer with it.

 

[Irish Miner]

At 16 years old a Winchester Model 70 30.06. I've taken lots of deer with it and still have it.

 

[tu3712]

Winchester .270 that "I bought for my dad" when I was an infant. He bought it for himself as a gift from me to get it past my mom.

 

[Hunterscamera]

Bought my first rifle ever last year .270 tikka with the SWFA 6X

 

[Tdurham7]

My first was a marlin 336 30-30

 

[Rwwilliams]

A Winchester model 7 youth model in 243. Got it at 10 and still have it.

 

[JayF]

Remington Mohawk 6mm Rem.

 

[cj7zrcool]

I was young (approx 40 years ago) and broke as a joke. A guy wandered into our lumberyard and said he had a shotgun he needed to sell. I went out to his old car and he had an ancient Remington 870 12ga that looked like it had been through a war but was operational. I bought it for $65 and took it to the Fort Worth gun show that next weekend. I traded it and $120 for a Remington 700 BDL 7mm mag, no scope or rings. I couldn't afford a scope so I took it out and shot it with the iron sights that came on it. I could hit a 4" circle on a paper plate @ 100 yards so I decided I was ready. A friend and I had a 400 acre deer lease in Hamilton County, Texas. My first morning with my new-to-me rifle was SUPER foggy. I had a 5gal bucket corn feeder in a Mesquite tree about 60 yards from my stool under another Mesquite tree that was backed up to the property line fence. Not long after I got into position, a basket racked 8-point came to the corn bucket. He didn't stay long and walked directly toward me. I could barely see him coming through the fog, but he got closer and closer. He ended up 8 yards from me and stopped at the fence. Looked over, and just when he jumped I threw the rifle up and fired. Hit him right behind the left ear. Dead as a hammer but on the other side of the fence. The skull cap with his tiny 8 points is hanging in my game room today.

 

[Wertherman]

H&R Single Shot 243 with a fixed 4 on the top. It was a cool gun, but never shot anything with it. I think I was borrowing from my uncle. First I owned was a savage axis 270 the year they came out.

 

[Fn458]

Always shot .243 until I turned 10 and got my first official hunting rifle gifted to me from my parents, it was a Remington 700 30-06. They told me i was a “big boy” and could handle the round…..I kept shooting the .243

 

[majg1234]

For college graduation gifted myself a Remington 700 BDL in 30-06.The thing cost $175 in 1973.
It came up missing during a divorce about 12yrs later.

 

[csbackcountry]

Grandpas old 30-06 worn out and kicks like a mule

 

[Tailingloop]

Marlin 336 lever in 30-30. Great brush gun. Still have it and use it putting on drives thru thick cover. 35 years and still shoots where you point it and knocks em down. No scope, just factory iron sights. Someday I’ll give it to my grandson.