How old were you when you killed your first deer?
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Savage Armed
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14. 50 cal muzzleloader. yearling doe. plenty of gun.
14 or 15....
At 14, there were 3 of us shooting at the same doe.... I am not sure who killed it.
I killed a doe at 15..... hit her low in the lungs and she ran a bit and laid down. I then learned what happens when you shoot an animal in the head at contact range with a .243 WIN . Messy.
At 14, there were 3 of us shooting at the same doe.... I am not sure who killed it.
I killed a doe at 15..... hit her low in the lungs and she ran a bit and laid down. I then learned what happens when you shoot an animal in the head at contact range with a .243 WIN . Messy.
knight0334
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8 or 9 with a mower bar behind our Farmall H.
Edward429451
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waterfowler
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13...
Youth hunt, 15 yards, dropped him right were he stood. 1.5 years old 6 point.
Youth hunt, 15 yards, dropped him right were he stood. 1.5 years old 6 point.
M1Garand2371
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I was 27... I only started hunting at 24 years old so it was my fourth year hunting when I finally hooked up with one...hope number two is this year(I'll be 29 this fall).
I was 14 years old. Shooting a Ruger Ultralite in 250-3000 [250 savage]. It was a Mulie Doe. My Dad and I stalked up to it while it was bedded. As we got close it stood. There was no rest, so Dad crouched on his hands and knees, and I shot the deer using his back as a rest. Dropped it with 1 shot.
sc928porsche
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12. Mod 94 Winchester 30-30. Two deer that year. One on the coast, and the other in the Sierras.
jhgreasemonkey
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I was in my early 20's. I was using my savage 110 7mm rem mag with burris scope.
Miata Mike
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I was 24. There was not a lot of opportunity for me back in the day. My Son however shot a dandy 10 pointer the day after he turned 12! Lucky little bugger had his choice of either a 10 or an 8 pointer in the first two hours of daylight. 
I'm not sure to tell you the truth, but I was either 25 or 26. Something like that anyway.
We got permission to hunt a place that we only got to hunt once or twice a year. Dogs jumped and ran around all morning. Shots everywere. Finally a doe came out in front of me, and I dropped her with a couple of loads of No 1 buckshot out of my then new Sears/Mossberg pump gun. As I was watching her to make sure she didn't get up, another one ran by almost under my legs. I swung on her, but changed my mind thinking "Get the one you got first." That deer went down to the next stand where my cousins husband killed her.
I think the club killed a dozen or so that day.
We got permission to hunt a place that we only got to hunt once or twice a year. Dogs jumped and ran around all morning. Shots everywere. Finally a doe came out in front of me, and I dropped her with a couple of loads of No 1 buckshot out of my then new Sears/Mossberg pump gun. As I was watching her to make sure she didn't get up, another one ran by almost under my legs. I swung on her, but changed my mind thinking "Get the one you got first." That deer went down to the next stand where my cousins husband killed her.
I think the club killed a dozen or so that day.
Major Dave (retired)
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Where I was raised in Texas, there was no deer season.
After 5 years on active duty, the Army sent me to Ft Sill, OK, for a 6 week school - during deer season.
During my lunch hour for the first 4 weeks of school, I studied deer hunting tactics by reading back copies of hunting magazines in the library.
Then I went hunting.
Using a SxS double barrel 12 gauge, at 40 yards, with rifled slugs, I downed a 17 point, 175 gross B&C trophy.
I call him my "By the book" buck!
Where I was raised in Texas, there was no deer season.
After 5 years on active duty, the Army sent me to Ft Sill, OK, for a 6 week school - during deer season.
During my lunch hour for the first 4 weeks of school, I studied deer hunting tactics by reading back copies of hunting magazines in the library.
Then I went hunting.
Using a SxS double barrel 12 gauge, at 40 yards, with rifled slugs, I downed a 17 point, 175 gross B&C trophy.
I call him my "By the book" buck!
pac.coastie
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13 years old, remington model 600 carbine in .243, with a leupold VariX-1 2.5-7 scope. was a four day trip in central Oregon, i get him on the third day.
bamaranger
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14 for me, 11 for bamaboy
I can't remember my PIN, bamawife's birthday, and who knows what else.....
but I can see that doe coming up the hollow, feel grandad's M88/.308 in my shoulder, see the crosshairs and hear the shot. She went down in a pile, 86
excited teenage steps away. Dad was just over the hill w/ one of his own. Only time we dragged two out together. Pardon me while I dab a tear.
BAmaboy shot his on a greenfield ROW, not 1/4 mile from the house. A mini-mauser, 6x leupold, .223 w/ 62 gr bonded bullet, off shooting sticks, me at his shoulder, coaching. Perfect lung shot at 75 yds or so, thru & thru. She went 75 yds or so, and a blind man could have followed her. His first words after the shot, ....."I was right on her, perfect. Now I see why you love it.."
Pardon me while I dab another tear.
I can't remember my PIN, bamawife's birthday, and who knows what else.....
but I can see that doe coming up the hollow, feel grandad's M88/.308 in my shoulder, see the crosshairs and hear the shot. She went down in a pile, 86
excited teenage steps away. Dad was just over the hill w/ one of his own. Only time we dragged two out together. Pardon me while I dab a tear.
BAmaboy shot his on a greenfield ROW, not 1/4 mile from the house. A mini-mauser, 6x leupold, .223 w/ 62 gr bonded bullet, off shooting sticks, me at his shoulder, coaching. Perfect lung shot at 75 yds or so, thru & thru. She went 75 yds or so, and a blind man could have followed her. His first words after the shot, ....."I was right on her, perfect. Now I see why you love it.."
Pardon me while I dab another tear.
I was 60 when I killed my first deer. Am 64 now and have killed seven, one buck each of the previous three seasons and four does last season.
There is an interesting story behind the first one. A friend and I were set up in his two man portable blind in the middle of his field. We set up about 3:00 in the afternoon. I was using his Savage 7 mm magnum. About 5:00 a spike buck walks out of the woods and starts eating corn that was left after the harvest. It was a 240 yard shot. I put the scope on the deer and pulled the trigger. CLICK! My immediate thought was that it would run off. I opened the bolt. For some reason a round had not gone into the chamber when I closed the bolt. Since the deer was still standing there eating corn, I closed the bolt again making sure a round went into the chamber this time. I aimed at the deer and pulled the trigger again. BOOM! Deer still stands there eating corn! I can't believe it didn't run off after the shot. My buddy then hands me his Remington 7 mm magnum and says, "Take this one, I know where it is hitting." I draw another bead on the deer and pull the trigger. BOOM! This time the deer does move, straight down. He dropped in his tracks. Afterward we checked the Savage and discovered that one of the crosshairs in the scope on the Savage was broken. When you looked close you could see a gap in it.
There is an interesting story behind the first one. A friend and I were set up in his two man portable blind in the middle of his field. We set up about 3:00 in the afternoon. I was using his Savage 7 mm magnum. About 5:00 a spike buck walks out of the woods and starts eating corn that was left after the harvest. It was a 240 yard shot. I put the scope on the deer and pulled the trigger. CLICK! My immediate thought was that it would run off. I opened the bolt. For some reason a round had not gone into the chamber when I closed the bolt. Since the deer was still standing there eating corn, I closed the bolt again making sure a round went into the chamber this time. I aimed at the deer and pulled the trigger again. BOOM! Deer still stands there eating corn! I can't believe it didn't run off after the shot. My buddy then hands me his Remington 7 mm magnum and says, "Take this one, I know where it is hitting." I draw another bead on the deer and pull the trigger. BOOM! This time the deer does move, straight down. He dropped in his tracks. Afterward we checked the Savage and discovered that one of the crosshairs in the scope on the Savage was broken. When you looked close you could see a gap in it.