what caliber did ya use on first whitetail

[DiscoRacing]

first time i ever took a shot... hoping the white flag wouldnt come up... was a .375 H&H Mag....looked just like a lever action 30/30 but i could nearly put the end of my thumb in the barrel.... was only 13 then.... as i recall too me about till next yrs hunt to get my shoulder back in shape.... not sure the recoil was worth the spike i got with it.

 

[critter44]

Model 17 Enfield 30-06 with Rem 220 grain RNSP. Thirty caliber hole in/out and the deer ran about 50 yds heart/lung shot. Eight point. Humm-that was about 40+ years ago.

 

[Tamara]

first time i ever took a shot... hoping the white flag wouldnt come up... was a .375 H&H Mag....looked just like a lever action 30/30

If it "looked just like a lever action .30-30", then I'm pretty sure it was a .375 Win., and not a .375 H&H. Big difference. (...and it takes a bitty thumb to go down the bore of a .375. )

 

[DiscoRacing]

tkx for helpin me out Tamara... was win then not h&h... and yes.... thumb was kinna small back then.... do remember the recoil tho.... worse than the 12 gauge i used to shoot pigeons from the old hay barn.

 

[Daryl]

My first mule deer was shot with a .243 Win. First whitetail (coues deer) was shot with a 7mm Rem Mag.

Daryl

 

[Tamara]

DiscoRacing,

Yup. A '94 Big Bore can beat you up a bit. Lightweight carbines firing stout cartridges and with hard, skinny butt plates will do that.

(I bet it gave you something to be proud of, though! )

 

[Hawg]

30-06

 

[taylorce1]

First mule deer I took was with a .243 Win. Haven't taken a white tail deer yet and I'll let you know what I use when I do!

 

[VaFisher]

My first deer I used 12 ga shotgun that was a lot older then myself, I shot it 1time at around 30 yards using #1 buckshot.

 

[banditt007]

30-06, 150 grain soft point.

 

[texfar]

Rem 700, 270, 130 grn spbt.

 

[onthejon55]

.50 cal muzzleloader 295 grain powerbelt 100 grains triple 7

 

[dipper]

Winchester 94 in 32 special ---open sights--I took my first 5 deer with it.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Ruger .243/100 grain. @ about 80 yards.

 

[Pahoo]

.50 PRB @ 35yds. and 90 grns of "Real Blackpowder" Way back when Moby Dick was a Gupppy ???!!!




Be Safe !!!

 

[bswiv]

38 years ago about 100 yards from the St. Marys river in NE FL. Deer ( spike ) was walking along the edge of the swamp. Shot him with a Re. 700 ADL in 25-06. Rifle cost $117.00.......don't remember what the Tasco scope cost. Quite a few deer and hogs went down over they years with it, mostly shooting Sierra 117 boattails.

Still have it.................still shoots good even though in the last 10 years or so I've gotten to where I almost always carry a old Marlin/Glenfield in .35 Rem. Got to get closer......but then I find it more rewarding to be close.

 

[JonnyReb]

Browning BPS, 12, with federal 1oz. slugs.

10 yard shot followed by a 20-30-40 and 50 yard shot. 4 hits, 1st one vital but it took the poor old thing forever to go down. The sounds she made almost made that my last hunt...J.R.

 

[SavageSniper]

Ok this is going to cause a stink. My very first deer taken was with a .22. Many moons ago. I was a kid rabbit hunting when he jumped up out of some blackberry bushes behind our farm. I raised and fired, he ran about 30 yrds and flopped over. Kicked a little and that was it. He had stopped kicking before I could reload. I hit him in the lower right side, thru the heart and lodged in the left ribs. You would have thought I hit him with a .270.

 

[dac12]

12 ga shotgun with buckshot, hit the heart lungs and liver, deer just hit the ground dead, didn't move an inch.

 

[nate45]

It was 35+ years ago when I was nine, the rifle was a .300 Savage Model 99, with a 2-7 Redfield Widefield scope on it.