Do you remember your 1st deer

[Canuck2]

What a bunch of great stories!

After accompanying my Dad as a youngster on many duck hunts and a few unsuccessful deer hunts, I went a long spell without hunting while I was in school, getting married, and getting settled in a job.

In 1974, we bought a farm and my neighbor had to be away for a few days at the start of the 1976 deer season. He asked me to keep an eye on his cows, so I packed my rifle as I did a walk-around twice a day. One evening, a 4x4 whitetail stepped out way across the hay field. Using a big hay shed in the middle of the field to hide my dash, I made for it and settled the gun on a hay bale.

The rifle was an old surplus .303 British with peep sights. I emptied the clip at him as he stood there stupidly. My very last bullet hit him in the head and dropped him on the spot. I got a lot more serious about my shooting abilities after that.

[sluggunner]

I remember them all in vivid detail.

I can still see each one in my mind as if it was only hours ago that I killed them. I still have hunters remorse for each one and feel bad for them all. I hate the killing part but really enjou the venison and looking at them on my wall. They are such beautiful animals. I will never understand how I can love and respect an animal so much and then put so much effort into killing it, it is such a paradox.

[MichiganHunter]

It was 1975,

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1975??? REALLY MAN YOUR OLD....HAHAHAHA:fish:

[Whitetail Freak Hunter]

Yep, my first was here in Montana back in 1990 as it was a nice 5x6 whitetail taken with a Browning BLR in 7mm-08. I was out hunting out west of Kalispell, Mt in the Marion area. I happen to take up sitting behind a nice stump, when this doe stood up, and then the buck. He turned to head off in another direction and my cross hairs found their mark, and I fired dropping the buck right there in its tracks.

[Rhino]

Everyone should remember their 1st one. Mine was a 6 point I shot during the Thanksgiving holidays in 1968. I was 13 years old. Yep...I'm an old fart.

[22_LR]

Remember it liek it was yesterday. I am only 14 and the date of the kill was 11/17/08.My favorite day ever.Me and my grandpa was standin up in a tree stand looking around because someone dropped the dogs,i turn around see something moving in the woods coming towards us and i tap my grandfathers shoulder and whisper "i see 'eem".He said sit down easy.I did and pulled up the ol 30-30 and put it behind its shoulder and busted him.ran about 40 yards and died.I as messy dressing him.Haha

[BearClaw]

Was hunting with my ex-father-in-law in Clearfield County,PA. He told me to sit on the edge of this field at the bottom of a hollow. I kept hearing deer walk down the hollow and turn and stay inside the woods. So I moved into the woods and saw a huge rub. I put Davy Backen Buck Lure on my boots and skipped down a trail so I would n't sound like a human walking. Got up into a fork of a tree and 5 minutes later here comes a four point with his nose to the ground just whre I had walked. I didn't own a rifle then (couldn't afford one) so I shot him with my TC Flintlock that I had made from a kit and down he went! Dragged him down to this logging road and a hunter comes up and I ask him "Do you know how to gut a deer?" He says No, but nice deer and keeps walking. Don't blame him, it was only 9AM on opening day of rifle season. Remember it well, back in 1986.

[SchuLace]

I shot my first deer when i was 12(first year I was legally able to) I missed a nice 4x4 Muley. My scope came back and caught me near my eye on my first shot and I was too cautious on my second shot and missed. After lunch I went out and got a decent 2x2. He wasn't huge but I will never forget that deer. I was extremely excited to finally be able to get a deer after going and watching my dad hunt for so many years.

[The Kid]

yup i was with my uncle, my dad had to work that weekend i was 14 at the time, it was getting about that time when the sun comes up and my uncle spots movement coming towards our blind in our hay field. so by the time it gets 50 yards from our tree i look and see its a monster a bullwinkle for sure were talking 160/170 inch deer over 24 inches inside kickers and sticker everywhere well just as i click off the safety he bolts,, i took a couple shots but never connected,, i was so bummed biggest buck i missed in my life,, about a half an hour later we notice movement across by our pond, now the pond is about 300 yards away, this deer was past that,, so me and my uncle figure its 350 plus and im hunting with my grampa's 300 weatherbee,, he tells me to put the cross hairs on the deer back,, i touch her off and she roars,, the gun has a muzzle break, smokes everywhere i can't see my ears are ringing, i ask my uncle where did he go?? he starts laughing and says he's down!!! he was a 6 point no brows 16 inches wide,, best shot i ever put on a deer i have the horns still,, still thinking about getting him mounted just need to get back to work..

[SchuLace]

Just decided to add something to mine. The first morning I went out with a couple guys that work with my mom and are part of a tv show. We were going to film the hunt if I got anything but we didn't see a deer. I was disappointed but what can ya do? It would have been cool to be on tv.

[joeaveragehunter]

Shot a nice nine and it died 200 yards away right underneath my dads tree stand. The deer had hit a dead poplar tree 20" around before it died. While my dad was guiding me through the gutting process, the tree fell not ten feet from us. Knowing how proud my dad was made it not my biggest deer, but by far my favorite.