what was your first deer?
. BTW, my first deer was a doe back in 1975 with a Win. 30-30.
04-09-2009, 08:26 AM
#32
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Southern Mississippi
Posts: 111
RE: what was your first deer?
My first deer was a 4 point way back in '73.We were running dogs and I got 'em with a Rem 1100 w/#1 buck.I was in the 10th grade.I don't think anyone of the group I was hunting with even owned a camera,so no photo.
04-09-2009, 08:46 AM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Southern NH
Posts: 197
RE: what was your first deer?
11/12/1987 yielded me my first deer which was a 114# doe. It took me 9 clean misses to close the deal. They have been falling at the rate of 1-4 year since then with only a few botched shots scattered over 2 decades.
04-09-2009, 09:36 AM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
RE: what was your first deer?
First deer was a doe from about 75 yards. It was an easy broadside shot from a rest. She raised her tail and flinched a bit at the shot, then rather nonchalantly bounded into the brush. I waited for a half hour then went to the spot--no blood, no tuft of hair, or anything. I was seriously thinking I'd missed, the the tail and flinch seemed to be a reaction to a bullet. I decided to head in the direction she'd bounded and found her 25 yds away in a little ditch where she'd laid down.
04-09-2009, 02:08 PM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 201
RE: what was your first deer?
My first deer was a nice 5-pt buck that I killed on a public wildlife management area.
The deer had been missed twice that morning before crossing over the ridge line I was watching from the next hollow. Half way down the hill side, the buck caught me shifting around and started trotting toward a thicket at the head of the hollow. I found the only opening in the thicket (about the size of a modest TV) and shot when the buck moved through the openning.
Remington 742 .30-06, 180 grain Core-lokt...buck took 5 steps and fell.
My wife was sitting next to me during that hunt. That buck (small compared to some I have killed) still has the center spot on my living room wall.
The deer had been missed twice that morning before crossing over the ridge line I was watching from the next hollow. Half way down the hill side, the buck caught me shifting around and started trotting toward a thicket at the head of the hollow. I found the only opening in the thicket (about the size of a modest TV) and shot when the buck moved through the openning.
Remington 742 .30-06, 180 grain Core-lokt...buck took 5 steps and fell.
My wife was sitting next to me during that hunt. That buck (small compared to some I have killed) still has the center spot on my living room wall.
04-09-2009, 05:42 PM
#36
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arkansas Ozarks
Posts: 325
RE: what was your first deer?
My first deer was a doe with an old Bear bow my brother-in-law gave me. It was set at 40 lbs. and by today's standards it seemed like it took the arrow forever to get to the target.
04-09-2009, 06:37 PM
#38
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Chippewa county, WI.
Posts: 2,646
RE: what was your first deer?
It will be 20 yrs. this rifle season when I shot my first deer. It was a big doe. I shot her with my dads old lever action 30-30. I can still remember that day like it was yesterday.
