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Fork horn wt deer on the run. Marlin 30AS I. 3030. 150 gr remington corelokt. Dad bought it from the Macleod store in Fort mcmurray. Still have the rifle.
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02-15-2023, 09:36 PM
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Muley buck @ 100 yards. Dad's old Husqvarna '06
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02-15-2023, 09:47 PM
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WT doe at 60 yards with a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington.
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02-15-2023, 09:48 PM
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My first was a spike bull moose with a BSA 270. Short barrel gun with factory full stock. Open sight at 100 yds. That gun kicked like a mule. Guess I should have pulled on my big boy pants at 18 yrs old because when my son shot his first (wt buck) with my 308 Norma at 12 yrs old, he jumped up and yelled “ this thing is a joke!”.
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02-15-2023, 09:58 PM
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Surplus SMLE .303 British with open sites. My dad took me out to shoot my first deer which happened to be a whitetail doe at about 60 yards if I recall. It was 1972. I was 12. South of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan.
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02-16-2023, 07:20 AM
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Location: Usually the office, but the bush when I can
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When I was 14 years old, my Dad's friend Bill from Ontario came for a visit. Tossed me his car keys and asked me to go get the rolled up blanket from his car trunk. In it was a 6.5x55 Swede, 11" cut off the barrel and mounted in a sportster stock (Bill was a gunsmith). Bill said "Happy Birthday" and handed it to me.
Dad had a scope mounted on it and the bolt reworked to clear the scope. After a few range sessions to get used to it, he turned me loose with a buddy. Last day of the season that year, took a Muley Doe at about 200 yards with an hours daylight left.
That gun is short, light weight and doesn't kick at all. Best gun for tight bush that I've carried. Will drive tacks all day long with 140gr (many gophers could attest to that). Still resides with me and has only been out of my cabinet for a couple of years on loan to my Sister-in-law who used it to punch her own tags until she got comfortable to get her own 243.
My 6.5 is now back with me and will remain with me until I'm too old, then it'll ride on my son's shoulder (hopefully). I've got others in the stable, but the 6.5 was the first and remains in the top 2 favorites.
J.
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02-16-2023, 07:48 AM
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Great stories fellas!!
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An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
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02-16-2023, 08:17 AM
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1st gun
A moose with the Model 70 30-06 I bought from Acme Novelty for $155 when I was 16
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02-16-2023, 08:17 AM
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First Big Game Animal
I was quite lucky.
I shot a 5 x 5 whitetail with my Grandfathers 308 Husqvarna with a 4 x Bushnell. It was north of Hairy Hill down by the North Saskatchewan river.
I had my first shot of Canadian Club Whiskey that night in celebration of my first buck after I cleaned him up.
Remember that day quite vividly.
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02-16-2023, 08:35 AM
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My cousins Remington 788 chambered in 6mm. Got a black bear and a few days later a white tail buck with it.
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02-16-2023, 09:12 AM
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303 British mark IV held 11 rounds
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02-16-2023, 09:20 AM
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As a teen I'd hunted deer in Ontario with a German WW1 8mm Mauser and a Model 1894 38-55. Only thing I shot was a brush wolf.
Moved to AB late 70's, saved up for a spanking new Sako 25-06. First big game was an Antelope that I hit 3 times, NOT performance on my part, A couple weeks later I nailed a 4x4 Muley with one shot. ****, that was over 40 years ago, I sure don't function like I did back then, The rifle does though.
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02-16-2023, 09:27 AM
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Through curiosity, a lot of guns and calibers have come and gone over the years.
The 45 year main-stay favorite for me is the 25-06. I shoot a 100 grain Barns Triple Shock for everything....It has taken a lot of deer and elk.
My 308 in 165 grain is a close second.
I enjoyed this thread......Cheers..
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02-16-2023, 10:59 AM
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Location: in the woods , finally !
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WT spiker with a marlin bolt action 12g goose gun and a slug . Strathcona shotgun season , i swear it was the coldest day i ever hunted in but it was worth it.
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02-16-2023, 01:46 PM
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Shot what turned out to be a WT fawn at first light on my 14th birthday using my new Browning BLR in 308. Saved up money to buy it. Dad split the cost. Later that afternoon, my uncle pushed out a big cow moose that was trotting out across the field. Dad and I were on a fence line waiting. He said to me, “Don’t shoot!” Too late, I pulled the trigger. Next words I heard were, “You hit it in the azz!” She slowed down and he put one in her neck. Told me to not say a word to my cantankerous uncle who was humping through bush pushing her out. He let me put another shot into her to finish her off. We gutted it and never said a word about her being hit in he azz. When we were skinning it out back at the farm with it on the front end loader, my uncle wanted to know who in hell shot it in the hind quarter. IIRC, my dad said something to the effect that must have been the natives, as she seemed to be limping when she came out of the bush, and that he missed his first shot. Uncle John grumbled like hell, and went back to skinning. We still have that old BLR. I used it for 15 years until someone told me I had to have a 7 Rem Mag. Sold it to my buddy who used it for years, and now it is our loaner / backup gun.
Footnote: I killed so many animals with that gun. Have mostly hunted with a 7 Rem since, but it doesn’t kill big game any more dramatically or more dead than the old 308. That’s the honest truth people.
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02-16-2023, 01:59 PM
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Vanguard S2 in .25/06
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02-16-2023, 03:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sns2
Footnote: I killed so many animals with that gun. Have mostly hunted with a 7 Rem since, but it doesn’t kill big game any more dramatically or more dead than the old 308. That’s the honest truth people.
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Not True - everyone knows a if you shoot an animal with a Magnum in the hoof, it's head explodes - nothing better than a Magnum!!!
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02-16-2023, 07:18 PM
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Location: West Kelowna B.C.
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A Remington 700 ADL in 25/06 mule deer was first, then whitetail and mtn goat.
Still have it.
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02-16-2023, 07:28 PM
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My first deer was a head shot doe with a single shot .410 slug.
I think I was 7 years old?
Yep, illegal!!
I sold that gun when I was about 14_15 for (ithink) 20.00$
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02-16-2023, 08:49 PM
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bought a brand new savage 110 (270 win) in 1964 when i was 13 years old, but my employer (the store owner who sold me the rifle) wouldn't let me have it until it was paid for and until i was 14 years old.
the first animal i shot with it was a small 4 point muley. i've shot many animals with it and missed my share, but nothing i ever hit has ever walked away. i've handed it down to my son.
other one is a mossberg model 46b 22lr that my dad bought in 1946. it has shot a truck load of gophers and rabbits and is still in my cabinet.
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02-16-2023, 09:45 PM
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1972, 14 years old, 2 point muley with a 270 Parker hale, mom purchased at Macleods in Pincher Creek.
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02-17-2023, 08:54 AM
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Great stories guys thanks again!!
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02-17-2023, 10:07 AM
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My first was a spike whitetail buck, shot it with my Remington 870 with a slug barrel.
Story is that the area I lived (southwestern Ontario) opened it's first ever controlled shotgun hunt so my buddy and I applied. Limit was 500 hunters for the entire WMU. We got drawn so we took the week off and went hunting in a place where we sometimes bow hunted. Lots of woods and ravines, and good numbers of deer.
The hunt was 4 days long, and on the last day, Thursday morning, after we sat the early watch, at about 10:00, the plan was that I would push towards my buddy on watch further down a ravine. I had barely started and saw the deer standing across the ravine looking at me, about 60 - 70 yards away, so I shot. It ran, and I shot again. It went down a side ravine so I headed over the top and saw it walking down at the bottom, so I shot again and it dropped. 1st shot missed, 2nd hit a bit far back, and the 3rd did the job. Man, was I shaking!!!
My buddy came and we field dressed it and dragged it out. We were required to bring any deer to an MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) check station and when we got there the staff congratulated me and told me it was the first buck brought in all week. I think about 50 deer were taken in the entire WMU that first season.
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02-17-2023, 10:14 AM
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First deer
My first whitetail was with Dad's 1938 Remington 141 chambered in .32 Remington sporting a Weaver K-3 in a Pachmayr tip of mount. This was way back in 1964. It resides with my brother.
And like the original poster, Dad had an Remington 870, his was a 16 ga. I shot a few ruffed grouse with it after getting a Poly Choke installed on it and getting rid of the full choke somewhere around grade 11. Plastic wads came into full use and tightened up patterns so much that full chokes were tough to hit with at typical grouse ranges in tight cover. My brother still has it.
Dad's pump .22 was a very nice Remington 1940's era Model 121 that was topped with a Weaver B-4 on a side mount as ours was not a grooved receiver. I shot a bunch of critters with it, despite the rather heavy trigger pull. A nephew had it, not sure he still does?
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02-17-2023, 10:42 AM
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Back home on the rock, moose with Lee Enfield 303. Lots of moose taken with the "ol" 303 back then. Still are.
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02-17-2023, 11:06 AM
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Mule doe with grandpas savage 99 250-3000
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02-17-2023, 12:05 PM
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Not sure if it was 1968 or 69, muley doe with a Parker-Hale 1200 deluxe in 7RM, some CIL or Canuck factory ammo. Second one was 1970 with a BAR in 270.
Same timeframe was a yote with a Rem 870 12ga.
Bought both with money I earned shoveling sawdust at a sawmill on a shutdown in the summer, then got on, on Saturday cleanups at the planer mill.
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02-17-2023, 01:32 PM
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300 Savage - Iron Sights
Mine was a WT buck (5x5) that my uncle told me to existed on his farm. Sat on the cutline and he came out as planned. It's still one of the biggest bucks that I have taken. The gun was my dad's and I still have it. Hope to pass it on to one of my daughters.
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02-17-2023, 03:40 PM
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303 British took a young moose
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02-17-2023, 05:47 PM
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Winchester model 670A .243 win took an Antelope and I still have the rifle. I took my last Antelope with the same rifle.
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