What was your first big game rifle?
11-24-2003, 02:44 PM
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What was your first big game rifle?
I am still working on my book project and have lots of questions only my friends on hunting.net can answer.
How many of you can remember your first big game rifle, and the first deer or elk you took with it? I am looking for stories that share first experiences in the woods. Where were you?, what kind of weather did you hunt in? Was your dad with you, grandpa, brother, mother, aunt, I would like to hear about your first experience hunting deer.
My story was I hunted with a 7.62 Russian dated 1917, I was a freshman in college back in Wisconsin, and shot my first deer in a blizzard, I was so proud to call my dad back in Chicagol and tell him I got a buck, he was very proud.
I appreciate all the help I can get from everyone, thanks..
Dr. Mike
How many of you can remember your first big game rifle, and the first deer or elk you took with it? I am looking for stories that share first experiences in the woods. Where were you?, what kind of weather did you hunt in? Was your dad with you, grandpa, brother, mother, aunt, I would like to hear about your first experience hunting deer.
My story was I hunted with a 7.62 Russian dated 1917, I was a freshman in college back in Wisconsin, and shot my first deer in a blizzard, I was so proud to call my dad back in Chicagol and tell him I got a buck, he was very proud.
I appreciate all the help I can get from everyone, thanks..
Dr. Mike
11-24-2003, 03:37 PM
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RE: What was your first big game rifle?
Short Answer: Remington Model 700 in .270 at age 14....
Long Answer: .... That is, if you consider deer big game, which I don' t, so really it was a Mossberg 810D (one crappy looking gun even when it was new) in .338WinMag at age 23 for elk (big game in my book). That ugly gun has cut a swath of death and destruction for me. Now my youngest son uses it, the other uses my Sako .338WinMag.
EKM
Long Answer: .... That is, if you consider deer big game, which I don' t, so really it was a Mossberg 810D (one crappy looking gun even when it was new) in .338WinMag at age 23 for elk (big game in my book). That ugly gun has cut a swath of death and destruction for me. Now my youngest son uses it, the other uses my Sako .338WinMag.
EKM
11-24-2003, 06:26 PM
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RE: What was your first big game rifle?
I started hunting with a 1893 Marlin that was given to me and the first one I bought was a Winchester model 70 in 270 win . This was a pre 64 not the classic .
11-24-2003, 07:46 PM
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RE: What was your first big game rifle?
My first big bame rifle wasn' t a rifle it was a 12 gague shotgun. I figured it was the best all around gun for a first gun. Birds to deer I could hunt it all with one gun. I took me first deerwith it, a doe, with me grandfather when I was eleven years old.
I got me first deer and my brother got sick and puked in the woods.
I got me first deer and my brother got sick and puked in the woods.
11-24-2003, 08:36 PM
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RE: What was your first big game rifle?
Sears Model 53 .30-06 that my Grandpa gave me when I was 15- only five years ago. I was hunting around Goose Creek in NE Nevada. My dad was hunting with me, and my Grandpa was there also, but didn' t go out walking with us. I shot a doe in the heart at about 150 yds. We went to where she went down and found her laying down much like a dog does with her front hooves under her snout. When she saw me she bolted. There was no blood in the area that she was, but I was congfident that I hit her. We eventually found her about three hours later and 300 yds away. That is an experience that I will never forget. It taught me alot about not to give up on tracking a wounded animal.