My dad gave me his .270 Remington 700 after he bought a .300 win mag. Went to Indiana to a friend's farm and didn't see anything my first year hunting. Up until then I had only gone pheasant hunting but did shoot the rifle at the range. After 2 years of unsuccessful deer hunting we got the opportunity to go to Africa.

1st day in Africa, saw a bunch of different antelope but no shooters. 2nd day while driving around we suddenly came upon 3 zebra in a field about 75 yards out with a large stallion at the lead. The two females ran off as I was putting the gun to my shoulder and as soon as I looked through the scope, I was right on his shoulder. He was getting ready to bolt when I pulled the trigger and down he went. Because he took a step my shot was a bit high and directly hit the spine. An unbelievable experience to say the least. Learned alot from my professional hunter who was amazing.

Since then have had better success with whitetail does. Have yet to get a buck yet, but getting any animal yearly is so exciting and brings me back every year. Sorry for the long rant especially since it doesn't really tell of my first whitetail but thought it was related.