First deer rifles

[denvermartinfarms]

Here's mine, when I was 6 dad let me pick any bolt action 243 I wanted, I could have had a model 70 featherweight, a browning medallion, about anything, but at 6 years old I thought this was best suited for me. Model 70 stainless synthetic. I don't even know how many I've killed with it, but I have lined it to 5 other people that have shot nice deer with it, it's kinda became the community gun. Lets see or hear what some of y'all first deer rifles were.

 

[J&D Cattle]

Borrowed a Marlin 336 30-30 from my uncle. Have since owned many rifles and killed many deer with a variety of calibers. A couple of years ago I got it back out of the safe and put a Leupold Rifleman on it. I've carried it the last 3 or 4 years in the woods. I usually keep a 22-250 in the truck in case something is way out there when I'm watching a field.

 

[Isomade]

Winchester 30-30

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Borrowed a Marlin 336 30-30 from my uncle. Have since owned many rifles and killed many deer with a variety of calibers. A couple of years ago I got it back out of the safe and put a Leupold Rifleman on it. I've carried it the last 3 or 4 years in the woods. I usually keep a 22-250 in the truck in case something is way out there when I'm watching a field.

In about 1970 my dads first was a 336c 30-30 marlin. I have a Leupold rifleman on that model 70 in the picture, it had a tasco world class for a long time but came apart inside a few years ago.

 

[J&D Cattle]

I've had many a Tasco word class scope. Used to think they were just awesome. Had one in TV view I believe. Seems like my ex-FIL still has it.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I've had many a Tasco word class scope. Used to think they were just awesome. Had one in TV view I believe. Seems like my ex-FIL still has it.

We still have sevarel around on guns, but Leupold has such good costumer service I try to buy them mostly. We've also been trying a few bushnell scopes, so far I think there ok for some guns.

 

[M5farm]

got a marlin 30-30 30yrs ago for Christmas when I was 16 killed 4 deer one morning with it right after that. I was hunting a broom sage patch and it was doe weekend and one stood up and I shot it it ducked back down and stood up again a few feet over and I shot it again then it went down and moved again and I shot her again. I was cussing that dadgum cheap tasco scope and then a small buck stood up and I shot him. I went to retrieve the buck and found 3 does and a buck all within 30 feet of each other.

 

[TexasBred]

Bought a brand spanking new Winchester 30.06 with a 4x Weaver scope on it from an Otasco store for $188.88.......can remember it like it was yesterday. Sited it in and have never had to change that cheap little scope one time. When I use to hunt I would shoot it 3 times at a target and go hunting. Still "spot on". Had no finish on the stock...just oiled and natural. Heck with inflation etc. it's probably worth $200 bucks now. ;-)

 

[highgrit]

I was 12 when I shot my first legal buck. And I used a Thompson Center Hawken, in 45cal.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

My first deer rifle was a 30AW Marlin (336's cheaper cousin). I bought it after saving my money from mowing yards all summer. I put a Leupold VX-3 2-7 on it and killed my first deer with it the next fall. I now have a safe full of rifles sutable for deer, but 9 times out of 10 I still hunt with my old Marlin. It is short, light, and it works for where I hunt. Plus it is rough enough that I do not worry about scratching it.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

got a marlin 30-30 30yrs ago for Christmas when I was 16 killed 4 deer one morning with it right after that. I was hunting a broom sage patch and it was doe weekend and one stood up and I shot it it ducked back down and stood up again a few feet over and I shot it again then it went down and moved again and I shot her again. I was cussing that dadgum cheap tasco scope and then a small buck stood up and I shot him. I went to retrieve the buck and found 3 does and a buck all within 30 feet of each other.

I doubled with a muzzle loader in the exact same scenario once. I shot a doe standing in tall grass, and when the smoke cleared where I could see she was still standing in the same place, I thought dang I cannot hit a thing. I reloaded as quickly as I could and she was still standing there when I got a new cap on, so I shot again. Walk up and two were lying together, dead as a door nail. I had taken out the shoulder on both. I never could figure out why the 2nd doe did not run. She had probably 20 seconds while I was reloading and she just stood and watched me.

 

[Anonymous]

First deer was with a borrowed .222 bolt action
Hit that running deer 3 times in 3 seconds.
First deer rifle I owned was a savage 110g in 30.06 wood stock. Took the action off one day and saw a huge crack from in front of the magazine receiver to the backside of the tang safety. It's amazing I ever killed anything with that rifle. Put a syn stock on it and sold it because I had no confidence in it

 

[Caustic Burno]

Model 97 Winchester ole girl is in the gun safe. I know of at least a hundred I killed with it.
I never even shot a rifle at a deer till I was way grown. I know I haven't killed over a dozen with a rifle in all the years I have been hunting.
Always been a man of the Thicket do my work up close. I even muzzle load hunt with a 12 gauge.

 

[JW IN VA]

Dad's Model 800b Mossberg in 243 Win.w/ Weaver K4 Scope

 

[HOSS]

Killed my first deer when I was 6 with a Remington 742 Woodmaster in 6mm Remington. My second deer was with an old British .303 surplus. I got a rifle of my own at age 8. It was a Remington 700 in 6mm Remington. I still have it. It is the most accurate sporter rifle I have ever owned or shot. It has shot many groups of less than 1/2 MOA. I still take it out and hunt with it. I got it from my grandpa.......I'll never sell that rifle. It has taken scores of deer and countless coyotes. I even used it on black bear.

 

[3waycross]

Shot my first legal deer at 12 with a Model 94 Winchester in 30-30. Kept it till a few years ago when a friend asked me to sell it to him and i kinda owed him one so he has it now.

Actually started hunting deer and Antelope when i was 6 with my two older cousins who were 9. We had a 30-40 Kraig and 14,000 acres worth of target rich environment to wear it out in. We used to buy surplus ammo and shoot the livin he[[ out of anything that moved with it. Fed a lot of the family and some real poor folks with that gun for years.

 

[Atgreene]

M-1 Carbine, 30 caliber. Not much of a deer rifle, but it was my grandfathers, he was in a wheelchair through my childhood, but I at least got to hunt with his gun and still have it.

My go-to is a Remington 722 300 Savage. Absolute deerslayer.

 

[Bigfoot]

I was 7 maybe 8 tops. It was a revolution .243. Deer season came in on a foggy Saturday morning, and my dad was taking down dark tobacco. He let me walk down in the woods with it, and sit down by a tree. It wasn't long till a little 4 point stepped out. I shot it in the face. At the time, and with no instruction. It seemed like the thing to do.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

This is another one of dads, it was new 25 years ago, model 70 30-06.

Another of mine, I have never been to high on Remington's but I have really enjoyed this one, 700 in 30-06 vx3 Leupold.

One of my favorites here, 1894 marlin 44mag, that scope is a 1.75x5 tasco that was new in dads 30-06 25 years ago, but we switched it to my marlin last year, you can back it off and see your barrel.

 

[ousoonerfan22]

Remington 700 ADL .243 I didn't own it long....some scumbag broke into my parents house and packed off most of our guns.