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[ohio bowhunter]

I do , and it sure as heck didn't look like this


This is my friends 13 year old grandson with his first deer . This is his second year hunting . Yea , I know , he's ruined now . But also a hunter for life I think .....enjoy .

[Longrange]

Yep sure can I was 13 I shot it with an old Indian compound.

It was a button buck and when I came home and told my dad I had shot a deer with my bow he laughed at me thinking I was kiding.
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[KTM]

Wow, that is one very nice first deer! Congratulations to him.

Yes I still remember my first deer and that was 35 years ago, it was a big doe. I was 13 and my father had placed me on a stand just below a wooded ridge overlooking a trail along a marsh, he then went a few hundred yards around a point that jutted out into the marsh. After an hour or so he was on his way back to check on me. I was watching him as he was walking along the edge of the marsh. When he was about 40 yards out I heard something behind me. I turned and saw a big doe standing about 20 feet away facing directly toward me. I pulled up my Marlin, 30-30, 336C, found her in the scope, pulled the hammer back and shot her right in the brisket. She reared up and went over backwards, got up and ran off. At first I thought I had missed her. My father saw the entire thing. When I turned and brought up the rifle he thought I was goofing around but he saw the doe just moments before I shot. We found the doe about 50 yards on the other side of the ridge, I had hit her right in the heart. I was sure proud, I think my father was even more proud of me. He was glad he was able to watch me shoot. Now if my 14 year old daughter could get her first deer.

Found some old home movie of me and my first deer so I took some photos to post. Not the best photos, but what can one expect from 8mm home movies that have been converted to DVD then photographed off of an LCD TV with a hand held digital camera... Anyway I edited the post to add the photos.

[Daveboone]

Thanksgiving day the first year I hunted, I shot a huge Fingerlakes country doe (with my 12 gauge JC Higgins bolt action shotgun). Dad had hunted for years and never shot anything, so he was pretty floored when we (I was hunting with my friend and his dad) pulled in, just before turkey was served. Dad never did get anything (and I am not sure he cared to), but he sure loved the venison.
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[tookalisten]

Wow, great buck!
My first was a small doe. I shot her from a stand with a Marlin 336C 30-30. I had set a stand up beside a sweet potato field. After the taters were picked, they always leave a few behind and the deer came to it to feed.
She came out directly under my stand. I remember sitting there looking straight down at her back. She went out into the field only about 35 yds. I ended up shooting her through the "peep sights" as I was not even sure the scope was accurate that close.
Man, that brings back good memories, that was a long time ago!

[contender]

I was 16, using my trusty Marlin M 336, in 30-30. I took a small 6 pointer. So many deer ago,,,!
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[Cholo]

November '80. Arrived at 1:15am and set up the camp while it was snowing in Hickman Co TN...15 degrees. I couldn't get out of my sleeping bag in the AM but Don did. Set up in the woods at 9am on the ground. Saw 5 does cross about 60 yds away. At 9:30 saw a single deer coming down a ridge at 60 yds. I swore I saw horns and pulled the trigger of my Marlin 30-30. It dropped in its tracks. I kept looking at it thru the scope but couldn't see horns. I was terrified I'd shot a doe. It took me an hour to walk over, a doe on a buck only hunt

I stood over it for at least a minute before I grabbed its head and turned it over. A 4" spike!

My 9 year old son took his 1st deer with the same rifle 16 years later.
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[Heliman]

My first deer was a doe taken in 1961. I was 12 years old and shot it with a Mauser sporter chambered in 257 Roberts. That rifle is still in the family, but now chambered in 25-06.

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[44-357]

I was 19 and we were hearding a big thicket. the older guys put me on the far right at the creek and about 4 mutts to follow me.I thought man there goes my hunt. I had made my way into the briars and honneysuckle and was standing on a rock in the creek drinking out of my canteen with all 4 dogs around me. Then I saw movement and got on the bank.and at first I thought it was a dog then it came through the small trees and a doe it was.I raised my marlin 336c 30-30 and shot it high and cut the spine it droped and tried to pull its self away. I went up and shot it in the head with my colt 1911. It was a very huge doe and in spite of being treated like a red headed step child I was the only one to get a deer boy were the others mad.I still have the old marlin and it still looks new.
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[MtnJack]

Was hunting north wesern Pa at 12 yrs old with a borrowed 7.7 jap rifle, the saftey really sucked you know what i mean. Anyway watching a drainage i see a deer coming and other guys are yellin its a buck its a buck great,, they were draging some monsters they shot out and were tellin me to shoot. I could not see the rack but believed them, i shot the whole mag and then some i think, the deer is still moving down the valley. I follow the blood trail and run in to some teanagers and they ask if i shot a buck, i reply yea and they say its up ahead we finished it off for you good job. I find the deer a one point, its got three broken legs, one horn, no tail and other holes in its body. Boy was i proud, got the booby prize at camp for the smallest rack ever shot. Still have that antler. Mtn Jack
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[96/44]

Hunting northern MN at age 12 with a borrowed 20 gauge Montgomery Ward bolt, we had had several hard winters and nobody had seen any deer. So on the last weekend of the season us kids got to hunt, and my uncle put me in a stand of three birch trees, which looked like they had been dead since the great depression, and were held together by pallet strapping. I was so excited to be hunting I decided to stay in my stand while the other guys went in for lunch, and one of them must have kicked up a doe. When I saw it I was so excited I just remember shaking so bad I had to concentrate to shoot, so I fired all three shots then jumped right out of the stand (probably 12' or so) people still remind me of that every year at deer camp.

[Nard]

That's great!

J.B.

[mattsbox99]

I grew up with parents that didn't hunt or even like guns, my dad had hunted when he was younger and had sold most of his guns. I begged and begged and finally he took me and my younger brother. We were always the butt of the joke to him, but thats all we wanted. Opening day I shot a big muley doe and I was happy as could be, my brother wanted a buck and waited for 3 years before he ever shot one. We took my deer home and hung it in the garage. I had no idea how to take care of it, but like most things in life, I had to figure them out myself. I butchered most of it before a neighbor came over and helped finish it. I made a lot of jerky and enjoyed it, but as usual, I had to do it all by myself. I hunted with my dad for one more year before I realized it wasn't hunting with him, he'd shot a deer after hours and then left it when it was a small buck. I was mortified. I told him I'd never forgive him for that. He didn't care.

My brother and I hunt together now, and we have a great time. I have a unique way of gutting deer that my friends and cousins all comment on. I just tell them I had to figure it out myself, nobody ever showed me. I enjoy hunting with the rest of my family. I learned the kind of person I never wanted to be from my dad, I'm pretty grateful for that.


I still like Jerky! I shoot about 5 deer a year or so and thats what I eat pretty much all winter, I love venison.

Ohio- That is a great first buck, my first Whitetail was a little smaller but still pretty nice, I've shot some insane Muley's but I prefer hunting whitetails. I am sure you have created a hunter for life in that boy!

[Aqualung]

First two deer were does, taken in Centre County, PA. First buck was a scraggly 6-point...but still a trophy and still my biggest buck.

Can't tell who's more proud, my Pap (my mother's father) or me:


Still my trophy:


Aqualung
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[mattsbox99]

You should have told us your Pap was Joe Paterno!
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