maddhunter Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Welcome to the forums!!!!! You'll love it here!!!!!! My first deer gun was a Marlin 30-30. Decent price around$250 and good out to 150 yards easy. I've shot several deer with mine at 100 yrds and dropped them like flies. Also the Remington 700 series are a good deal, around $400. As for the shotgun I would recomend a Remington 870 express. You can get a combo at most stores,screw in choke barrel and rifled slug barrell for about $350. And with the new technology they are putting into slugs these days they are good out to 100yards too. Please take into consideration these prices are for around my area, Oklahoma. And that's my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robk Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Re: New Hunter first off your age how old? 2. have you gone to a hunter safety course yet? go there and take the program and you can get a lot of help for your state incuding what kind of rifle or whatever you want to learn to shoot. these people know the laws of the state your going to hunt in and also you will need your hunter education course and pass it before your allowed to and hunt., the hutner safety course will help you more than you will ever know and the local peopl that teach the course will actually help you to pick out what woudl work for you best in your neck of the woods, another thing that will help you is to fill in your profile and let people know who you are and your age so we can help in many other ways as your parents if your under 21 will h ave to help out and buy the gun for you to use hope this helps and just go form there rob k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Re: New Hunter Welcome to the forums. Many good affordable deer rifles out there. Savage makes a good rifle. Personally for deer I shoot a remington model 700 in .270. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Re: New Hunter Welcome to the forum. Do ALOT of reading here. Incredible amount of good info here. There is a WHOLE bunch of VERY knoledgeable people all over this BB. Ask any question you'd like. I'm sure someone will have a answer for ya. Rule #1 in hunting never point your gun at something you don't intend to shoot. Keep it in a safe direction. Rule#2 know your target and whats beyond it. These basic rules are the foundation for this great sport of ours here. Once again...Welcome and ask away.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preacherman Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Re: New Hunter Welcome to the forums! As far as a rifle, I agree with MadHunter, those Remington 700's are nice and you can get them at Wal Mart for around $400. They also, here in Alabama, have a Nikon Buckmaster 3x9x40 scope on sale for $154 right now tha is a nice scope. That is basically what I started out with and then once I got a couple of years under my belt, I slowly began to upgrade! Congratulations on the desire to hunt. It is indeed the greatest past time that God has given us! You will love it here in the forums, because you will indeed find some good info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lilcrackshot Posted July 24, 2005 Report Share Posted July 24, 2005 Re: New Hunter Welcome to the forums and to a great sport. For the rifle like preacherman said the Remington 700 is a great gun. I love them and top it off with a Bushnell scope and you have a great deer gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: New Hunter Welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Re: New Hunter Dear MICRO ARCHER, Please see the below photo before planning an "Out-Of-State-Hunt". (P.S. I'm from 15 minutes away from where this deer was taken). Oh yeah...send me a PM(private message). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheDanishDanger Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Re: New Hunter welcome to the best sport. I would get a muzzleloader cause if your huntin in maryland, you can use it for shotgun season and when muzzleloader season comes in, you'll be set, and the muzzleload with a decent scope is IMO, better than a shotgun, but you can do so much with shotguns these days. anyways, it's up to you, only setback, one shot with the muzzleloader, but how many shots do you really need? I got a remington 700 muzzleloader. taken 14 deer between brother me and dad in 2 years, only 2 misses, brother and dad. haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY_Bowhunter14 Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Re: New Hunter first make sure rifles are legal in your county... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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